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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OCTOBER 27, 2018

Microsoft Maquette is a brand new VR tool from Microsoft which is all about prototyping spatial designs. Maquette appeared quite suddenly this week, apparently without any official announcement from Microsoft; it seems to have been picked up by MSPoweruser after being spotted by twitter user WalkingCat.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

For years, Microsoft Mesh for Teams has promised companies an opportunity to create richer, more immersive collaborative experiences. Since then, however, access to Microsoft Mesh for Teams has remained relatively limited until now. Here’s your guide to using Microsoft Mesh for Teams. What is Microsoft Mesh for Teams?

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. Surprisingly, there was little at the conference directly related to HoloLens , Microsoft’s mixed reality headset. The Future of the Cloud, According to Satya Nadella. Satya Nadella.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What is Microsoft Mesh , and what can it do to transform the future of immersive collaboration? For some time now, Microsoft Mesh has promised companies an opportunity to build unique mixed and extended reality experiences for the future of work. So, what is Microsoft Mesh exactly, and what can it do? What is Microsoft Mesh?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), You are all fantastic! Here you are my flower for you!

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. Surprisingly, there was little at the conference directly related to HoloLens , Microsoft’s mixed reality headset. The Future of the Cloud, According to Satya Nadella. Satya Nadella.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard for $68.7B. The biggest news of the week has been the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft for $68.7B. With it, Microsoft acquires many popular games like Overwatch, Starcraft, Call of Duty, and even Candy Crush. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 9, 2022

Similar to Meta, Microsoft has made some significant investments into the XR landscape in the last couple of years. Microsoft Teams now has its own Mesh integration, so companies can pull one of the world’s favourite collaboration apps directly into the MR space.

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ARPost

APRIL 13, 2020

We didn’t have to shake the tree very hard to find someone that we were excited to talk to but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to talk with the good folks at Unity. What Is Unity? The name “ Unity ” probably sounds familiar to you. Unity is the platform that makes this world a reality. More Buzz Around Unity.

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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 - 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 - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In recent years, we’ve discovered just how powerful technology can be in delivering information to those who need it most. Perhaps the biggest company in the mixed reality landscape right now, Microsoft is paving the way to a future of incredible hybrid learning. That’s where Unity comes in.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Because of my busy time, the commentaries to this and the next two newsletters will be a bit shorter than usual, but I’ll try to be informative the same, just with fewer words. Thanks for your understanding. Very soon I will unveil what I’ve been working on all these weeks, and I hope to have your support for that!

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Offering a convenient way to provide consumers with product information, enhanced shopping experiences, and better customer service, XR is quickly becoming a table stakes part of the new digital retail space. 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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2024

Initially, Apple didn’t reveal much information about the apps available on the Vision Pro. However, now that the device is set to start rolling out in February , we have more information about the “launch” experiences users can expect. Apple also works with Microsoft on solutions like Teams for the Apple Vision Pro.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 2, 2024

Taqtile is introducing improved Manifest Editorial and Publishing tools to improve enterprise users’ ability to leverage spatial information, such as digital twins and detailed holograms. Taqtile has a history of supporting Microsoft’s digital solution portfolio to improve its Manifest product.

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AR Insider

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. by Nick Davis. odarczyk and Rafa? What are some challenges faced by maintenance operators?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

But there’s even more: Unity has already published a page about how it is possible to build for the Quest 3 using not only the XR Interaction Toolkit, but also AR Foundation. Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

SAP shapes the future of work with Unity. That’s changing with the SAP Extended Reality Cloud (XR Cloud), which is based on Unity’s platform and enables the development of mixed reality applications. To make it easier for Unity developers to integrate SAP data into Unity, SAP recently launched the Unity Integration Toolkit.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Today I want to take you on a journey on one of the coolest prototypes I’ve ever worked on, which is about creating Unity applications that can dynamically modify their logic at runtime depending on the user’s needs thanks to generative artificial intelligence. Cubes are easy to do. It got thousands of downloads.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 2, 2024

Taqtile is introducing improved Manifest Editorial and Publishing tools to improve enterprise users’ ability to leverage spatial information, such as digital twins and detailed holograms. Taqtile has a history of supporting Microsoft’s digital solution portfolio to improve its Manifest product.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some rumors talk about the board receiving the information about a breakthrough algorithm called Q* (Q-Star) which showed the signs of being able to make maths reasonings, which would mean that it could lead towards AGI. Now Microsoft is discontinuing them , putting another nail in the coffin of the HoloLens.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 29, 2023

USAF engineers used Microsoft’s mixed reality headset, the HoloLens 2, to conduct the field test. RAAF servicepeople shared the information, manuals, and walkthroughs with the USAF engineer located 1,400 kilometres north of the military base, in Townsville. How do we help deployed forces stay mission ready?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Finally, Magic Leap has revealed information about the price and availability of Magic Leap 2. In my opinion, Magic Leap 2 is a superior device to HoloLens 2 (see my hands-on here ), so I think that with these prices, it can have good success in the enterprise market, starting to gain shares with regard to Microsoft. Learn more.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 16, 2021

Unity asked more than a dozen industry experts – including yours truly – to share their thoughts on how immersive technologies would be embraced for a report entitled Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR. How Immersive Technologies are helping us reimagine personal interactions in a post-COVID world. .

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

For larger companies looking to connect their entire team with HoloLens 2 headsets, Microsoft is offering a package that includes Dynamic 365 Remote Assist on each MR headset at the cost of $125 per user – per month. If you’re a developer working on your own, Microsoft offers the HoloLens 2 Development Edition.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

That’s the consensus that seems to emerge from “Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR” a report published today by Unity Technologies, where 15 industry experts (yours truly among them) outlined how Mixed Reality (or XR depending on what flavor acronym you favor) will supercharge and transform the world of work. Look no further!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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. Meta uses the industrial Metaverse framework that Microsoft revealed slowly across H2 2023. But how did Microsoft get to this point?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

When I tried to use ChatGPT to create Unity scripts, it managed to write something good, but often I had to correct it. I’m a Unity developer, and for instance, I use a lot the Unity XR Interaction Toolkit and the features of the new Unity Input System to develop content for all the headsets using just one Unity project.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by VR Panda) New information leak about the Quest 3 The launch of the Quest 3 is getting closer, and it is tradition with Meta, the weeks before the launch, everything about the device is getting leaked. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! in the reviews!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

Image by The Information). Congress is stopping the acquisition of more Microsoft IVAS headset. The story of the IVAS, the modified HoloLens system that Microsoft is building for the army, is becoming always more similar to a soap opera. This is a decision that is not going to make Microsoft happy. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Although Microsoft hasn’t shown much of an investment in the entertainment and arts sector as of yet, it has a lot of potential to offer with the HoloLens ecosystem. Microsoft’s technology could easily be the basis behind a number of mixed-reality and unique event experiences in the entertainment world going forward.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

Disciplines will include research and development (R&D) for AI, machine learning (ML), quantum information, blockchain, and data science. These host the USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute and Institute for Creative Technologies, respectively.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

AI will require “open and transparent innovation” to “empower a broad spectrum of AI researchers, builders, and adopters” with critical information and tools, the organisation explained. Using AI, Microsoft aims to optimise processes for the enterprise, reducing time, waste, and equipment downtime.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 18, 2017

One of the devices that generates the greatest interest among the tech community at the moment is Microsoft HoloLens. Development: Unity , Vuforia , Microsoft Visual Studio , Windows 10 SDK , HoloLens Emulator (if you do not have a device). Unity helps developers to manipulate this HoloLens feature in many ways.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I’ve very limited time, but luckily this week has not been very relevant for the ecosystem, so I’m managing to write this newsletter anyway Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) AltspaceVR shuts down In one of the saddest moments of the latest years in VR, AltspaceVR has closed its doors.

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