Road to VR
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Microsoft announced at their at Future Decoded conference in London that HoloLens, the company’s augmented reality headset, will be expanding its international availability to include all of the European Union in December. image courtesy Microsoft. image courtesy Microsoft. .” image courtesy Microsoft.
Road to VR
AUGUST 28, 2023
There’s no word when the company plans to roll out access on browsers either, which the beta’s FAQ says will broaden availability of the platform to iOS devices on Safari, and Google Chrome, Safari, or Microsoft Edge on laptops and desktops.
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Bernard Marr
JANUARY 29, 2024
Preserving The Icelandic Language What country doesn’t love its native language? This is a particular concern for the country of Iceland. So, the government of Iceland has collaborated with OpenAI and is using the GPT-4 language model to help preserve the Icelandic language. (As
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
The world’s biggest direct air capture (DAC) plant is set to come online in Iceland on Wednesday. The moment is an important one in developing new technologies to help suck carbon dioxide out of the air —but raises a whole host of questions on the future of how we’re going to put those technologies to use. Read more.
Hypergrid Business
JANUARY 26, 2022
I wrote my own ViFi novel, MetaWars , in 2010 after the Icelandic ash cloud grounded flights across Europe. Anyone who spends their days working from home, on what feels like non-stop Zoom meetings or Microsoft Teams sessions, is living a type of virtual reality. I wonder if that’s the direction of travel for Microsoft.
Bernard Marr
DECEMBER 6, 2022
And Microsoft’s Mesh platform adds avatars and mixed reality capabilities to its Microsoft Teams collaborative working environment, to give users a taste of metaverse-like functionality. Nvidia is also promoting its Omniverse collaborative working tool as a metaverse platform.
The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 27, 2019
Image by Microsoft). Microsoft wants to play safe, though, so it is now launching it only in two small countries , so that to identify possible problems only in a small subset of the worldwide population before the big launch. The two lucky countries are New Zealand and Iceland. Microsoft details 3 interesting R&D projects.
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