The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

If I had known people could like it, I would have not made it in 5 minutes with Microsoft Word, lol. Facebook Reality Labs creates a group focused on working on the “metaverse”. The leader of the group will be Vishal Shah, Instagram VP of Product, that will report directly to Andrew Bosworth. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

It’s a major milestone, according to Khronos Group which has overseen development of the standard by a consortium of many of the biggest names in the AR/VR sector. OpenXR’s ‘working group’, under which representatives from member companies have been actively developing the standard, is facilitated by Khronos Group.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 5, 2017

You could be on Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, on a PC, Mac, smartphone, or even a Nintendo Wii and you’re still gonna see the same website. Today, Brandon Jones from Google (who is one of the chairs in the official WebVR Community Group ,) noticed that developers from Apple have officially joined the group.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In the late ‘90s, a group of Microsoft engineers started tinkering with old Dell laptops in the hopes of creating a console based on Microsoft’s DirectX technology. The idea was to create a gaming box that showcased what the software company was best at but without the need for a big honking PC running Windows.

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VRScout

MAY 9, 2022

Microsoft has partnered with German automotive manufacturer Volkswagon to develop an AR (augmented reality) GPS navigation system powered by Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset. In 2018, Microsoft and Volkswagon partnered once again to solve this long-running conundrum. Image Credit: Microsoft.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2017

With Apple’s newly public interest in VR , developers from the company have join the W3C WebVR Community Group to have a say in the development of the WebVR standard. To achieve that, W3C hosts online groups to get developers talking to one another and deciding what a standard should look like and how it should work.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Microsoft just used their HoloLens for the first mixed reality Mannequin Challenge. Microsoft is jumping on board 2016’s biggest meme that first appeared on Twitter in the form of #MannequinChallenge, where groups of users created short video clips of themselves pretending to be mannequins as a camera moves through the frozen scene.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 21, 2022

Microsoft may be the latest victim of a hacking group that has infiltrated some of the world’s largest tech companies in recent months. Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

US computer graphics and components enterprise NVIDIA teamed up with Microsoft last week to build a massive AI cloud supercomputer using the latter’s Azure cloud computing service. It will also leverage NVIDIA’s A100 and H100 processors, Quantum-2 InfiniBand network, and AI Enterprise software.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 23, 2022

For Edge to steal market share from Chrome, Microsoft will need to find ways to differentiate the relative newcomer from Google’s ubiquitous option. Features like Collections (which acts like bookmarks, but for groups of webpages) are a good start, and now Microsoft is giving gamers a reason to stick with the default… Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 23, 2021

Microsoft is warning that a cybercrime group named BazarCall is using call centers to trick users into installing powerful malware, ZDNet reported on Wednesday. Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week saw Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, Meta, and Sony move to optimize their product offerings and business operations. Last year, Microsoft also shut down its long-standing Metaverse platform Altspace VR, transferring some of its development team to its Mesh platform.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 14, 2016

Microsoft have just launched a new HoloLens ‘Commercial Suite’ which packages the augmented reality visor as ready for business with numerous new features and benefits for business buyers. Your IT department can manage multiple HoloLens devices simultaneously using solutions like Microsoft InTune. Carrying case.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 26, 2023

Today, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which provides the “ building blocks ” for its Metaverse. Microsoft first announced its acquisition in 2022.

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VRScout

JANUARY 12, 2018

Learning to play the piano is getting an immersive upgrade with a new augmented reality (AR) piano training software called Music Everywhere. The app was the first Augmented Reality music learning platform to take first prize in Microsoft’s HoloLens Developer Contest , beating more than one-thousand submissions.

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VRScout

MAY 18, 2020

. “Thanks to modern developments in machine learning, it is now possible to precisely detect people and objects around you, remove the background automatically, and transfer the result to virtually any software on your computer,” stated Diagne during an interview with Dezeen.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Microsoft, Siemens Industrial Copilot Debuts This week, a partnership between Microsoft and Siemens led to the debut of Siemens Industrial Copilot , an AI assistant that aims to improve human-machine collaboration in manufacturing. Siemens Teamcenter for Microsoft Teams will debut at the start of December 2023 for general availability.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2022

One such platform, the Microsoft Reactor meetup, has united many thought leaders, tech giants, and organisations as a guiding compass for the growing community of technology enthusiasts, developers, journalists, and even senior executives. Excellent @Microsoft Reactor #meetup in #London with @VR2AR , Alexander Karim, and @seanmtracey.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

At the same time, major workplace application developers Microsoft debuted its follow-up to Altspace VR and Immersed debuted an MR headset which could rival the biggest names on the market. The new XR collaboration platform replaces Microsoft’s predecessor, AltspaceVR, and will debut in October as a public preview.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You can access it at this link: [link] ) Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft kills Windows Mixed Reality Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Windows Mixed Reality platform , the one of the WMR headsets by Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung which were the first to introduce inside-out tracking in the VR ecosystem.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

At the same time, Meta’s flexible software landscape ensures teams can access a wide range of educational apps, or make and implement their own learning tools from scratch. Perhaps the biggest company in the mixed reality landscape right now, Microsoft is paving the way to a future of incredible hybrid learning.

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ARPost

JULY 4, 2022

NVIDIA joined Meta , Epic Games, Khronos Group, Avataar , Microsoft, Unity, XR Association , and many other founding members to lead the development of interoperability standards to drive the growth of the metaverse. As a 3D environment, you can expect some advanced software and hardware behind its development.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Furthermore, Brian Ballard highlighted how, despite improvements in XR technologies, end users have been solving a problem rather than simply innovating headsets, software, and solutions. Recently, Microsoft has showcased how clients Nexco-East and Sanofi use the firm’s XR product portfolio.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 25, 2023

Plus, it was a proprietary system, owned by Microsoft, and didn’t play well with other metaverse platforms. In its blog post, the company said that it will be focusing on other metaverse-related efforts, such as the launch of Microsoft Mesh , an enterprise-focused metaverse platform. ” And it’s making money.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The Dublin-based IT consultancy has outlined a Metaverse Continuum Group to facilitate digital transformations for businesses. Multinational XR firms like Lenovo, ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Varjo, and Microsoft are leading the charge for immersive transformations.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2020

It’s no doubt been a massive undertaking creating a platform agnostic standard for VR and AR, as The Khronos Group consortium has included in its ranks the important hardware and software creators in the industry, including AMD, ARM, Epic Games, Facebook, Google, HTC, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Unity, and Valve.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

The OS is obviously in its early days, and most of the device’s supported applications are first-party or well-established services from firms like Zoom and Microsoft that Apple is porting to visionOS. XR devices hold a unique space as the hardware allows a large spectrum of individuals to enjoy, and the Vision Pro is no different.

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The AR Show

JANUARY 16, 2024

Previously Michael spent nearly a decade working with the Microsoft Hololens team. He was a Principle Engineering Lead at Microsoft for a couple of years, left to be the founding partner of Object theTheory, where he and his team worked with enterprises to leverage AR and VR technologies, often in combination with IoT and AI/Machine Learning.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Image courtesy Khronos Group. Facebook, Microsoft, Valve, Unreal Engine, and others have been making progress toward supporting OpenXR in their platforms and now Unity says it’s moving to do the same. Earlier this year the standard took a huge step forward by announcing the start of certifications for compliant implementations.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Nokia , the Finnish telecom giant, has been focusing on telecommunication infrastructure development after selling its mobile phone business to Microsoft in 2014. The opportunities for partnering were identified in trending markets and technologies, for example in remote assistance , cloud software, and 5G.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This week, Microsoft continued its roadmap of introducing emerging workplace tools to its worldwide lineup of clients; most recently, the firm distributed AI tools across Siemens’ workforce. The move deepens the partnership between Microsoft and Siemens with a purpose-built Siemens Industrial Copilot solution.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

You can have a group chat with your friends and tag Meta AI so it will answer to all the group. All he cared about was AI and how its AI companion will be always with us on all software products stealing our data. Microsoft 365 compatibility is coming at the end of the year. So you will have Meta AI on Facebook.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR API is a core piece behind many XR headsets from vendors such as Acer, ByteDance, Canon, HTC, Magic Leap, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, XREAL, Qualcomm, Valve, and Varjo. The OpenXR Working Group leverage industry-wide feedback to improve its API service. Moreover, Muniz explained that OpenXR 1.1 Muniz also added: OpenXR 1.1

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

So, a business must ensure that deploying immersive hardware or software is worth both financial and learning investments. Using smartphones and photogrammetry software, users can create realistic simulations of products and environments to improve the design and development process.

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ARPost

MARCH 7, 2023

Their actions on the stage were volumetrically captured and displayed in The Polys’ AltspaceVR environment, similar to the launch of Microsoft Mesh. Cozzi is the CEO of Cesium , but he was selected for this award because of his work co-creating glTF as a contributor to the Khronos Group. See Also: AWE 2022 Day Two: The Floor Opens.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 16, 2023

However, to leverage the full benefits XR has to offer, government groups first need to be able to access tools specifically built for the challenges the armed forces face. Microsoft announced its intention to build dedicated army headsets in 2022, but the project has faced several issues in the last year, leading to delays and setbacks.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2017

” Both roles are part of Apple’s CoreMedia team within their Interactive Media Group (IMG). And the CoreMedia team: The CoreMedia engineering team within IMG is responsible for implementing software services around linear audiovisual media.

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