Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2016

” For some perhaps, there’s nothing more terrifying than the thought of being psychologically immersed inside an operating system, perhaps particularly Windows. Generally, MR refers to imagery formed from fusion of reality and virtual sources. What is Windows Holographic?

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The point of all this was to show off the spatial audio technology that Tashev and his team at the Audio and Acoustics Research Group developed for the HoloLens, and which is now being incorporated into its new Windows Mixed Reality headsets. And for that, you need the developer community to get on board.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

I’m anyway linking a few of them here below, just for your reference. Together with the hardware leaks, we keep having the usual references to RealityOS found in always more pieces of code of iOS. The fully immersive virtual world has been premiered at SXSW 2023 at TheMall, the world’s largest virtual mall.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 31, 2023

Following various industry events this week, the immersive industry was ready to debut new updates and showcases to prove XR is here to stay. New updates and features may create a vast, immersive marketplace for firms, developers, and consumers. Additionally, Microsoft is working to enhance avatar customization.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2021

Microsoft announced their new platform Mesh last week to enable better mixed reality experiences across not only AR and VR headsets, but also mobile and desktop. Mesh is built on Microsoft Azure which enables developers to build immersive, multiuser, cross-platform mixed reality applications through an SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! Also, the awareness has grown , because every gamer knew about Alyx, and so about virtual reality.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 17, 2019

Microsoft’s new piece of kit doesn’t disappoint, but the real excitement of its MWC announcement goes well beyond the hardware. Microsoft is in this for the long haul and will continue cashing in just fine without even touching the consumer market Click To Tweet. The HoloLens and I go way back.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2018

Could one of these intuitive prototypes deliver the immersive haptic feedback users have been clamoring for? . Allowing users to interact with the virtual world using their own two hands is a key component in truly selling an experience and immersing participants.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

Recently Microsoft noted how MR represents the “ eyes and ears ” of AI. Following a mainstream steer away from the Metaverse by some towards genAI – the latter may be gaining the most focus currently – but roadmaps are already in place by firms such as Microsoft to develop the industrial Metaverse by 2024.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It is the final newsletter of the year, so… see you in 2021, a new year that I hope will be filled with many interesting news about immersive realities! Microsoft Flight Simulator releases VR patch. Asobo and Microsoft have worked hard for this and on 22nd, the VR patch has been released. Top news of the week.

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 10, 2018

From animal anatomy to digital twinning and mining simulations, this Canadian company is bringing game development know-how to immersive experiences. MineLife VR, for example, manages to synthesize large, complex, and vast spatial data into a life-sized, interactive, virtual reality experience. VRScout (@VRScout) June 20, 2018.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

Plus Apple is proposing some special content in its Immersive Video format, which is a high-definition version of the usual 180 3D. Disney+ will be available on the device, and you will be able to watch Disney movies in 4 marvelous immersive environments. There is even Microsoft Word! Another success story in the VR space!

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VRScout

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Samsung, in partnership with Microsoft, today announced the Samsung HMD Odyssey —a Windows VR headset expected to have some impressive specs. The Samsung HMD Odyssey is a high performing headset designed to provide the most immersive Windows Mixed Reality experience. The Windows VR headset looks impressive on paper.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We are at the beginning of March and I just realized that I haven’t written yet a post with my predictions for augmented and virtual reality for this year. The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The holiday period approaches and many may receive an XR headset or device as a gift ready for an immersive 2024. Next year, Apple will debut the Vision Pro following years of hype, and Microsoft will also start rolling out its industrial Metaverse services. December is here. The XR market may be experiencing a quiet before the storm.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

But it is for sure a feature that will enable not only more immersive social VR interactions (which I guess are the main goal for Meta), but also new kinds of VR experiences. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Virtual Reality is creating a rise in insurance claims.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The day has come and finally, the sandbox to create games without coding that is Dreams on PlayStation has released a patch to be used with virtual reality. That is, from now on, creators from all over the world will be able to express themselves in virtual reality on PlayStation without any particular technical knowledge.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first roundup of news of this new year, and to signal a change with the past, I’ve changed the name from “VR Week Peek” to “XR Week Peek”, because, hey, I like talking about all immersive technologies and not only Virtual Reality. Microsoft SharePoint Spaces to launch in the first half of 2020.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 29, 2018

What is different about this is that apart from being more polished and integrating more collaborative features in one place via Microsoft Teams it also plugs into the company’s strategic focus on AI Click To Tweet. I was trying out the Microsoft Remote Assist feature, a HoloLens app (although the functionality also works on PCs.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It seems that one of Apple’s shell companies has just registered the trademarks “Reality One”, “Reality Pro”, and “Reality Processor”. According to the usual analysts, this means that the name of the upcoming headset will be Apple Reality. The news was Tweeted by the co-founder of Zesty, a WebXR immersive ads provider.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2020

Qualcomm has been using its heft as a mobile chip maker to accelerate the development of AR and VR devices because it believes the ‘immersive compute’ category is the long term future of the smartphone. While Sulon Q was said to launch in late 2016 , it was quietly cancelled and forgotten.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Microsoft’s endeavour to support the virtual reality (VR) industry with a reference design headset which the likes of HP, Dell and others could build up never really took off. Windows Mixed Reality headsets weren’t bad but the sudden flood of them in late 2017 made for a confusing hodgepodge of devices.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Facebook came with the Oculus Quest 1 & 2 , then Microsoft with the Hololens2 with hand tracking capabilities; but there are limitations in dealing with occlusions and in tracking outside the camera’s field of view on the headset. Optimizing 3D models for Augmented Reality 3. VRFree System by Sensoryx Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Though mixed reality is evolving at a slightly slower rate than augmented and virtual reality, market leaders like Microsoft are beginning to introduce the world to what the future of MR could really look like. Here’s your insight into the definition of Mixed Reality. What is Mixed Reality?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2023

many investors would have run away scared from immersive realities, causing the ruin of many companies in our field. When Microsoft performed the acquisition, Satya Nadella underlined how the acquisition of Activision could also lead to the acquisition of competencies related to metaverse from the gaming company.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

After the report of last week by Insider, in which Alex Kipman was accused of improper behavior at work, especially towards women, Alex Kipman has resigned from Microsoft. Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it.

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ARVR

JULY 7, 2020

Three types of VR experiences and what UX designers can do for each Creating engaging content for Virtual Reality requires various skills including User Experience design. In this article, I refer to VR UX design with regard to the soft side of the experience.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2018

The open metaverse is going to be built on web standards like the WebXR Device API (formly WebVR), but the larger community of web developers has been waiting to fully commit to building immersive WebVR experiences until there’s universal support in all web browsers. 628: Tony Parisi at the Virtual Reality Strategy Conference 2017.

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CraneMorley

MAY 31, 2022

million jobs worldwide will use augmented and virtual reality by 2030. These realities are not a sector for gaming specifically but part of the future of our daily life. What is Virtual Reality? Virtual Reality might be the easiest to explain and understand of all the realities.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2022

Over the last two years, metaverse technologies have matured due to investments from firms such as Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Epic Games, and many others. The immersive and real-time aspects of a genuine metaverse may revolutionize a variety of human activities, including gaming, social interactions, eCommerce, entertainment, and e-sports.

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VRScout

JUNE 20, 2018

Rather, it was the fact that Oke and Lavigne, after working for over a decade in the video game industry with companies such as Microsoft, EA, and Ubisoft, had applied there combined experience to found LlamaZOO and produce what sounded like an incredibly eclectic range of VR applications under the name.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 31, 2022

Extended Reality, the umbrella term used to refer to all forms of immersive technology, from AR to VR, presents a host of valuable opportunities for consumers and brands. As we move forward into an age define by virtual interactions and communities, we’re likely to see significant investment from Meta into the safety of users.

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Road to VR

JULY 16, 2016

Microsoft unveiled ‘Project Scorpio’ to the world at E3 this year, stating that it would provide the Xbox platform enough power to run high fidelity VR experiences. Of course this cautious approach may well pay dividends in the long run, I referred to Sony’s ‘gamble’ just now, and I meant it – it is.

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ARVR

JUNE 9, 2021

Microsoft Microsoft is one of the few companies that has approached augmented reality wearables more successfully. We expect to see Microsoft still at work for a long time in this area and we think it can succeed where it has failed with mobile devices. link] Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

confirmed with the company that it may not be a Niantic-branded pair of glasses, but a reference design that Niantic is building with Qualcomm since 2019. This pairs well with a piece of news from mid-2020, where Niantic said that it intended to build a reference design, but not its own Pokemon Go glasses. Well played, Microsoft.

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ARVR

APRIL 27, 2022

Microsoft recently announced that it will be launching its own enterprise Metaverse in 2022, and users will be able to access business tools like MS Excel and PowerPoint on it (yeey, great news ha!). It’s a huge step to truly bridging the divide between the immersiveness of physical retail and the ease and convenience of shopping online.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In partnership with Nvidia, Microsoft, and Cesium, it offers a real-time 3D creation engine for producing immersive mapping and digital twins of real-world locations. It broadly refers to digital domains that host synchronous interaction between placeshifted participants. It’s become a runaway train in the gaming and VR worlds.

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