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US Navy Using Magic Leap Headsets To Keep Soldiers Combat-Ready At Sea

VRScout

Not too long ago the US Army announced a whopping $479M contract with Microsoft to supply 100,000 modified HoloLens headsets for combat use. Magic Leap Horizons originally developed TRACER as part of the US Army’s Augmented Reality Dismounted Soldier Training (ARDST) project. Featured Image Credit: US Navy Research.

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Augmented World Expo Asia 2023 Announces Agenda

XROM

Singapore VR/AR conference announces speakers from Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, 3M, IMDA, HTC, among others. Global technology giants on the agenda include Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, Lenovo, and Qualcomm. Presenting exhibitors of the conference include NIPA, Niantic, Immersal, Dispelix, EnlightXR, and XPANCEO.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

Because now suddenly you can interact with the objects, you can cognitively so much easier to learn when you can do it immersively with a VR headset. And so we created for him this immersive environment with our partner ILM. You could be firing up Unreal Engine in Toronto, I'm in Carey, North Carolina. That's beautiful.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

Because now suddenly you can interact with the objects, you can cognitively so much easier to learn when you can do it immersively with a VR headset. And so we created for him this immersive environment with our partner ILM. You could be firing up Unreal Engine in Toronto, I'm in Carey, North Carolina. That's beautiful.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Game’s Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

Because now suddenly you can interact with the objects, you can cognitively so much easier to learn when you can do it immersively with a VR headset. And so we created for him this immersive environment with our partner ILM. You could be firing up Unreal Engine in Toronto, I'm in Carey, North Carolina. That's beautiful.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

AR headset distribution is much more dramatic, as students are mainly developing on Microsoft HoloLens (43%), with Google Glass, Vuzix AR headsets, Epson Moverio, Meta AR Dev Kits making up the rest of the pie chart. North Carolina State University, USA. North Metropolitan TAFE, Australia. image courtesy VR First.

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