The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

Hello everyone from Austin, Texas, where I am attending the SXSW! Microsoft has killed it (after having basically abandoned it) because it had to perform a spending review given the bad economic conditions. Now all these groups of people do not have a house anymore: some of them will migrate to other social VR platforms (e.g.

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VRScout

AUGUST 10, 2018

I was familiar with Austin, Texas because of SXSW — having attended with my previous employer, Emblematic Group. Texas’ business incentives have attracted the attention of IBM, Motorola, Apple, and Indeed. After scoring a partnership with Microsoft, they’ve talked at length about relocating to San Francisco.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Meet GIGXR , the new owner of all of the assets of Pearson Immersive Learning Group , a subsidiary of the education and media publishing giant, Pearson. The group has intellectual property for virtual and augmented reality training programs for hospitals, nursing schools and universities, according to a statement.

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VRWorld

JULY 20, 2017

There’s a clear reason why, and it can be found in recent ‘resurrection’ of Google Glass in ‘Enterprise Edition’, as well as wanting to react to popular products from Vuzix and ODG (Osterhaut Design Group). While Glass 2.0

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Robert Scoble

JANUARY 11, 2022

Former Apple/Microsoft exec Linda Stone told me that was coming back when I worked at Microsoft 17 years ago. Doing this research also led me to study people’s reactions as they visit our home (we had a family here from Texas for 10 days at Christmas time, too, so got a ton of insights from that). Here we are.

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