XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 18, 2024

Microsoft highlights how companies can benefit from Team’s enterprise-ready and proven end-to-end encryption, data loss prevention, and compliance certifications when leveraging the AR service. Microsoft is planning for device-wide general availability in 2024.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This week, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Taqtile, a leader in AR instructional solutions, is showcasing its now deepened support of Microsoft services to boost the usability of its immersive solution in demanding industrial environments.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Meanwhile, the immersive industry is coming closer to a potential paradigm shift in 2024, as big technology brands plan to make a mark on the emerging sector. XR Today recently marked this period with an XR Trends series, which brought together some of the best minds in the industry to share AR/VR/MR insights.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Google has unveiled its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform, allowing developers to preview 3D assets via the Unity Editor. How Does Google’s Geospatial Creator for Unity Work? Currently, Google’s Geospatial Creator for Unity offers visualisations of more than 2,500 cities in 49 nations.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Will 2024 be the year for the industrial Metaverse? But the Metaverse is not dead; the industry is just refining it. Both Microsoft, AWS, and Meta are sailing the industrial Metaverse ship into 2024, with leading Meta representatives urging enterprise clients to adopt immersive services today. It started last year.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2024

Microsoft spent the second half of 2023 championing what it coined as the industrial Metaverse, specifically an umbrella of multi-user XR services covering enterprise use cases such as collaboration, design procedures, and employee training. Will the loss of Windows Mixed Reality lead to a lull in XR products from the firm? Not likely.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft lays off 10,000 employees and shuts down its mixed reality projects This is seriously a bad period for the tech industry in general, and of course also for mixed reality. For sure, not having Microsoft backing it will slow down a lot of its development.

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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. Spatial Maps?—?Spatial

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Unity Technologies has reportedly backtracked on the controversial fees it introduced last week, triggering a public outcry from the developer community. Many Unity developers have slammed the new fees as unfair, prompting the San Francisco-based firm to rescind its announcement partially.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

Businesses set to benefit from ARway’s advancements include those in the retail, manufacturing, and industrial sectors. ARway-Microsoft HoloLens 2 Collaboration The Toronto, Canada-based company also struck a major deal with Microsoft to integrate its solutions on the latter’s HoloLens 2 headset. ”

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 8, 2023

Even before the firm’s monumental and, in some ways, controversial device announcement, which saw audiences amazed at a high price point and technology promise, the XR industry was on each of their seats with predictions on Apple’s immersive debut. Apple supports Unity applications as part of its software stack.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Khronos Group , the consortium behind the OpenXR project which aims to standardize the way applications communicate with AR and VR headsets, just added Microsoft to its ranks. Among its count of members, the OpenXR working group consisted of nearly every major player in the industry except Microsoft until now.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Extended Reality has taken the world by storm, influencing workflows throughout virtually every industry. Meta recently announced the arrival of a popular architectural tool “ Unity Reflect ” in the Meta Quest environment for 2022. Additionally, Microsoft Mesh also integrates with Microsoft Teams for collaboration.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2023

The global industrial extended reality (XR) market is expected to reach $60 billion by 2030, findings from ABI Research revealed this week. ABI’s Enterprise and Industrial XR Training report found that enterprises have been increasingly tapping virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) devices over the last five years.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2022

Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR standard, is helping to assemble other XR industry players in service of cooperatively building interoperability standards for what it hopes will be an “open and inclusive metaverse.” ” Image courtesy Metaverse Standards Forum.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2023

IGS 2023 wrapped up last week, tipping off a monumental event filled with XR innovation across a series of industries. As important industry events occur, the sector continues to progress. Major firms like Microsoft, Valve, and Apple are continuing to build immersive product portfolios leading towards the dawn of 2024.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 9, 2023

Microsoft has picked volumetric video company Arcturus as its primary marketing partner for its Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios (MRCS) solution provider. Arcturus’s Dimension Studio Arcturus will also provide licence and expertise support for studios seeking to partner with Microsoft’s MRCS network.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 9, 2022

In the construction industry, professionals can work together on digital twins of schematics, blueprints, and products in a shared VR world. Similar to Meta, Microsoft has made some significant investments into the XR landscape in the last couple of years. The company could even be the organization behind the new era of “Metawork”.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2023

As the ever-growing technology space finds its footing in enterprise and for consumers, industry leaders are ensuring that the market stands upon a strong foundation of industry-wide collaboration and rich design tools. On the other hand, Unity is introducing tools that leverage AI to simplify XR content creation processes.

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ARPost

MAY 29, 2020

The day included a discussion on how to create a virtual world society from Tom Furness, a discussion on ethical responsibility in the immersive tech industry from Professor Donna Davis, a panel on women in XR, and more. There were also huge announcements from Unity, HP, Microsoft, and others. Industry Announcements.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is presently supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players like Magic Leap. Released, Microsoft Supports on HoloLens & WMR, Oculus Plans Rift & Quest Support appeared first on Road to VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 21, 2023

Today, at NVIDIA’s GTC online event between March 20-23, NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang introduced core updates to its Omniverse real-time 3D (RT3D) content creation suite, which brings extra considerations to industrial Metaverse services, immersive content, and AI-driven developer pipelines.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

However, with 2024 shaping up to be a monumental year for XR, with Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, and Apple all putting major stakes and investments into the space, what companies do today could greatly influence the future of work. The firm is rolling out the features starting in early December this year for free.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 2, 2024

By delivering exceptional management and compliance tools, enterprises in highly regulated industries can confidently expand Manifest usage throughout their organizations. Moreover, Azure support helps keep workers better connected through more robust connectivity features suitable for industrial environments and use cases.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 26, 2023

This month, Microsoft will deploy an upgraded version of its dormant HoloLens 2 headset for US Army soldiers. Microsoft’s US Army contract sees the firm deploy 20 custom “Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS)” HoloLens 2 MR headsets for field testing. Microsoft IVAS: What’s New? The IVAS version 1.2

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Perhaps the biggest company in the mixed reality landscape right now, Microsoft is paving the way to a future of incredible hybrid learning. According to Microsoft, implementing mixed reality into the training landscape leads to a reduction in training times of approximately 30%. That’s where Unity comes in. Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. I’ll try to summarize all of that, especially for what concerns the announcements related to our XR space.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. What We Know .

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2023

Microsoft has developed its mixed reality (MR) solutions with fresh updates on its Dynamics 365 Guides platform, the company announced in early April. The new tools will support deskless and frontline workers worldwide and follow numerous steps Microsoft has taken to promote its Mesh platform for MR experiences.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 13, 2022

In the advertising industry, the rise of new and disruptive technologies can be an incredible way to unlock new levels of audience engagement. The Unity real-time development platform has become one of the industry-standard choices for the creation of powerful XR experiences over the years.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for AltspaceVR. Microsoft again, because some time ago they bought AltspaceVR , a VR social platform that was on the verge of bankruptcy. Snap’s augmented reality filters likely place it as one of the leading companies in the AR industry. Unity (Nasdaq: U) for 3D Modeling and Animation Tools.

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JULY 1, 2020

Learn how industrial giant ABB is using Unity and augmented reality to transform field maintenance procedures into a completely paperless process. Kielar, to walk us through how they used Unity to develop a new digital field operator system. Best practices for bringing AR applications to the field. by Nick Davis.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This year was a busy one for the XR industry; following a lull in faith towards the start of the year, groups such as the OEP, Microsoft, and Meta worked to bring new life to the sector via substantial workplace XR solutions. The Unity integration also enables the OEP to integrate other related solutions into the product.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The very first Vision VR/AR Summit was home to keynote addresses from established leaders in the emerging industries, leaders such as Gabe Newell of SteamVR, Palmer Luckey of Oculus, and Dr. Richard Marks of PlayStation VR. Vision VR/AR Summit Asia will take place in Beijing, China at the NUO Hotel on December 14th and 15th.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 2, 2024

By delivering exceptional management and compliance tools, enterprises in highly regulated industries can confidently expand Manifest usage throughout their organizations. Moreover, Azure support helps keep workers better connected through more robust connectivity features suitable for industrial environments and use cases.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Companies can access high-level rendering, industry-leading optics, and dynamic computing all in a lightweight and ergonomic headset. In recent years, Microsoft has begun making a name for itself as perhaps the most significant innovator in the mixed reality space.

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JULY 4, 2022

NVIDIA joined Meta , Epic Games, Khronos Group, Avataar , Microsoft, Unity, XR Association , and many other founding members to lead the development of interoperability standards to drive the growth of the metaverse. On June 21, 2022, brands gathered together for the founding of the Metaverse Standards Forum.

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