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How does Virtual Reality Work? The Ultimate Guide

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To ensure the experience is immersive and realistic, virtual reality systems leverage a combination of infrared LEDs and motion sensors, cameras, and screens, which allow a headset to gather relevant information and present it to the human eye. True virtual reality doesn’t simply fill your field of view with new information.

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HoloLens 2.0 to Put a Custom A.I. Chip at the Heart of Its On-board Processor

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Microsoft has undoubtedly been working on the next version of HoloLens, the company’s AR headset, but now we know a little more about what’s going into the next iteration: a Microsoft-built custom AI chip designed to carry out low-latency computer vision tasks. image courtesy Microsoft. The post HoloLens 2.0

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The XR Week Peek (2024.01.23): Apple Vision Pro preorders have been opened, and much more!

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But we still learned something new, like the fact that there are 3 possible storage options (from 128GB to 1TB), that it has 16GB RAM, and that it uses the M2 chipset with 10 GPU cores. We already knew about some of them, like the game Super Fruit Ninja, but we started to get information about the others, too.

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HoloLens 2.0 Will Use A New Processing Unit To Implement Speech And Image Recognition

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The first version of Microsoft’s HoloLens Mixed Reality headset has plenty of room for improvement, but the company is working on a new version that will sport a new processing unit to enable the device to use deep learning. Marc Pollefeys, Director of Science on the HoloLens project, recently said as much in a new Microsoft blog post.

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How to Save Money on Business Travel with Virtual Reality

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billion meeting minutes in Microsoft Teams alone in one day. . Companies like High Fidelity and Microsoft are already working on environments that make this possible. . The company has seen a record of 2.7 VR will take the new meeting landscape to the next level. Some interactions will still demand an extra human touch.

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What Is Edge Computing and Why is it Important for the Metaverse?

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This has major implications for the metaverse , which involves high-volume data processing at low-latency speeds. This means that networks can process information faster and more efficiently without as much bandwidth, since there is no need to move data between servers and clients. Reduced latency.

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Our pick of AR Remote Collaboration and Support Services

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Similarly, a number of enterprise AR solutions utilize the basics of AR – digital information or graphical assets overlaid on the user’s field of view – in ways that are not collaborative. TechSee and Vuzix (and Microsoft). Incidentally, Vuzix also supports Teams, Microsoft’s remote conferencing platform.

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