Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2020

HoloLens 2 has been available to Microsoft business partners and developers since last year, however anyone else interested in the augmented reality headset would have to jump through a few hoops first to get their hands on the device. Now Microsoft has opened sales of HoloLens 2 to anyone with the cash on hand. Microsoft Edge.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

In addition to offering $100 in Oculus Store credit for every new Rift purchase from Best Buy, Amazon, and Microsoft (US), GAME (UK), Saturn (Germany), and FNAC (France), Oculus have provided some significant software discounts on the store, highlighted below: Dirt Rally – $40 (33% off) – a superb rally sim from Codemasters.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

They aim to compete with existing solutions from other major tech brands and impending technologies rumored to be arriving from companies like Apple and Microsoft. Specific settings will be switched off by default, such as head tracking. The glasses include two Micro O-LED screens, which project visuals to the wearer.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 is a an augmented reality headset, with cameras built right into the headset. Tracking: Infrared cameras for 3D eyeball position tracking, multiple cameras for motion tracking and head tracking. Price: $3,500 from Microsoft. Image courtesy Microsoft.). HoloLens 2.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Today, we’re looking at some of the top MR headset manufacturers in the industry, to help business leaders track down the right endpoints for their technology stack. Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 headset enables 6 degrees of freedom tracking, with spatial mapping and mixed reality capture.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Goertek NReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix Magic Leap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 18, 2017

I covered both the outward facing cameras and Google’s tracking technology continued to track my head movements in every direction accurately for about one second. Then it reverted to the kind of 3DOF head tracking seen with current Daydream and Gear VR headsets.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Microsoft Microsoft’s smart glasses are designed with a focus on the mixed reality landscape. The HoloLens 2 headset from Microsoft is intended to address a range of different needs in the education, healthcare, and industrial space. Magic Leap also recently achieved an IEC 60601 certification for its headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Today, we’re looking at some of the top MR headset manufacturers in the industry to help business leaders track down the right endpoints for their technology stack. The flagship MR solution from the company is the Samsung HMD Odyssey, which combines Microsoft Windows Holographic computing components with a 110-degree Fresnel lens.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Instead of it working like this… It really has to work like this… Essentially, you’re just decoupling the aiming from the head-tracked controls, which is how you play Minecraft in VR with an Xbox controller. We’ve reached out to Microsoft about the direction taken with Touch support.

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ARPost

AUGUST 3, 2022

The following year it launched on Steam and the year after that, it was purchased by Microsoft in a bid to expand their mixed reality portfolio which has always been a kind of awkward collection. Initially, the purchase by Microsoft didn’t mark many major changes. A headset also enables head tracking.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

But immersive head-mounted AR for consumers has had one major hurdle that Microsoft may have just solved. For a long time it didn’t seem like real progress was being made on inside-out tracking even while it was being made in other important areas of AR like display technology.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The streamlined and lightweight products can work alongside a range of common apps, including Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Cisco Webex, and TeamViewer. Tech specs include: 480 x 480 color display Wave guide protection technology 20-degree field of view Brightness of up to 2000 nits 24-bit color Available prescription inserts ANSI Z87.1

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Doc-Ok

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Today Microsoft announced a release window (first quarter 2016) and price (USD 3,000) for HoloLens developer kits , so suddenly HoloLens, and discussion thereof, is all over the Internet again. Figure 1: Microsoft’s HoloLens. ” The folks in Microsoft marketing must have had a field day with this.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Microsoft today announced that its latest AR headset, HoloLens 2, is finally shipping. Microsoft announced HoloLens 2 back in February and has started selling the headset today. Image courtesy Microsoft. Head tracking. Eye tracking. Like the original, HoloLens 2 is positioned as an enterprise-focused device.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

This lets you experience scenes that are a bit more complex than the ones that you can live on Microsoft’s device; The field of view is 40° Horizontal and 30° Vertical. Furthermore, it is not something original to Magic Leap, since I’ve seen Microsoft doing it in VR some years ago.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

They teased a lot of interesting features and services of the device, and left the remaining technical details to some technical sheets on Microsoft website. But Microsoft, thanks to innovative 2K displays, has managed to keep the same high-quality pixel density of the HoloLens 1, that is 47 PPD (pixels per degree). Resolution.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Optic ID Iris-based biometric authentication OS VisionOS Audio Spatial audio with dynamic head tracking, a 6-mic array with directional beamforming Battery 2 hours of general use or 2.5 There are social tools, like Reddit and Discord, and even productivity apps from Microsoft, Zoom, Webex, and Adobe to explore.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

The headset came out last year , starts at $800, and is hands-down the best VR headset I’ve used to so far, and that includes various incarnations of the Oculus Rift, the Microsoft Hololens, the original HTC Vive, Oculus Go, and dozens of different smartphone-based headsets. VIVE Focus Plus. Image courtesy HTC Vive.).

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2021

Besides a VR-ready PC, that includes everything you need to jump into some of the most popular PC VR games like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, Half-Life: Alyx, No Man’s Sky, Skyrim VR, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, and Beat Saber. Photo by Road to VR.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

So, in the past few weeks we have seen big tech, including Meta and Microsoft, announce massive layoffs , mostly to their XR division and at the same time, pivoting towards artificial intelligence and generative content. Despite the news, this year’s DEAL expo was as busy as ever. I have strong VR legs, but still felt queasy.

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Doc-Ok

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Figure 4: A joint tele-collaborative data analysis session between a CAVE and a head-tracked 3D TV with a 6-DOF tracked input device. Remote users are represented as pseudo-holographic 3D video avatars captured by one or more 3D cameras, such as Microsoft’s Kinect, at each site.

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Doc-Ok

JANUARY 17, 2017

the position of the screen(s) is fixed and precisely measured during installation, and the viewer’s eye positions are provided via real-time head tracking. There are no details on resolution, frame rate, brightness or other image specs, and any mention of head tracking is suspiciously absent. In CAVEs et al.,

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

The system featured a head-mounted display with head tracking that could be used to explore virtual environments or real remote images from a camera — foreshadowing future breakthroughs in teleoperation. In 2016, Microsoft began shipping a developer edition of its mixed reality HoloLens system, priced at $3,000.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Regarding what components have been opensourced, Google states that “The open source project provides APIs for head tracking, lens distortion rendering, and input handling. Microsoft ships HoloLens 2, nReal gets ready to do the same with its glasses. After a long wait, finally Microsoft is shipping its HoloLens 2 headset.

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Headjack

JANUARY 12, 2015

Even Microsoft decided to join the club. We do not want to simply exchange a regular camera for a VR camera and use head-tracking as a gimmick. The recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas made it clear: virtual reality is taking on serious forms ! 2015 is going to be an exciting year!

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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Road to VR

JANUARY 12, 2017

AR in particular requires such accurate and low latency tracking that virtual objects can appear fixed to the real world. We’ve seen very impressive inside-out positional tracking before on Microsoft’s HoloLens —a $3,000 full-blown Windows PC on your head—which houses a bevy of sensors.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. We’re not tied to Microsoft. So, you know where people are looking; you can really get an incredible amount of data back from the headsets, as well as deliver the content to the viewer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. We’re not tied to Microsoft. So, you know where people are looking; you can really get an incredible amount of data back from the headsets, as well as deliver the content to the viewer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. We're not tied to Microsoft. So, you know where people are looking; you can really get an incredible amount of data back from the headsets, as well as deliver the content to the viewer.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Creating a social VR experience poses new challenges like head-tracking on a massive scale, and networked physics so people can realistically interact in a persistent shared space,” says Dedric Reid, founder and CEO of HelloVR.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2017

link] Re’Flekt is unveiling the first platform to support simultaneous direct publication and model-based tracking for the Microsoft Hololens. link] Scope AR is introducing significant updates to its live support video calling platform, Remote AR, making it the first remote assistance software to enable markerless tracking.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

For example, head tracking can come from optical trackers or inertial ones. Microsoft Hololens kits are shipping to developers, but are not priced for consumers yet. With every new device, we come closer towards achieving universal device support. A key OSVR goal is to create abstract device interfaces.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Microsoft has actually– it’s interesting, because the Hololens was in their devices division and they actually moved it last year over to cloud. We have sub-millimeter accuracy head tracking and eye tracking. Google has some easy tools. Mozilla has easy tools. Like the cloud. Alan: Yeah, I agree.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Microsoft has actually– it’s interesting, because the Hololens was in their devices division and they actually moved it last year over to cloud. We have sub-millimeter accuracy head tracking and eye tracking. Google has some easy tools. Mozilla has easy tools. Like the cloud. Alan: Yeah, I agree.

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