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Microsoft HoloLens 2 to Officially go on Sale in September

Peter Graham

Microsoft might not be doing much virtual reality (VR) development but its dedication to augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) has never been stronger. It’s also worth noting that customers need to be based in the US, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, or the UK.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Expects AR: ‘Will Pervade our Entire Lives’

Peter Graham

When it comes to preference over virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies Apple CEO, Tim Cook has made his stance continually clear, AR is most certainly the future. My view is it’s the next big thing, and it will pervade our entire lives,” reports Silicon Republic. Last year the company announced a $3.8

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Qualcomm Reveals Snapdragon AR2 Launch Partners

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For example, Snapdragon AR2 partner Lenovo is developing the ThinkReality VRX (virtual reality) headset that enhances enterprise training. to expand its distribution goals to cover customers in Scandinavia, Benelux, the UK, and Ireland. Notably, Microsoft is joining Qualcomm’s list of launch partners.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

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Image by Microsoft). Microsoft ramps up distribution of HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Other relevant news. HoloLens 2 availability has been expanded to 15 new regions : Italy (YESSS!) Two interesting videos on the Quest 2.

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HoloLens sets its sights on Europe with huge expansion

Slashgear

It’s been a long time coming, but Microsoft is finally ready to launch HoloLens across Europe. Ever since the headset was first released back in 2016, it’s been available in only a few European regions, namely the UK, Ireland, Germany, and France.

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Microsoft Finalizing Its HoloLens, VR Headset Specifications

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In just a few days time, Microsoft will host WinHEC , its annual hardware / platform conference. Intel has 600 people here working on hardware form factors, while the similar story is with Microsoft and a few other known global players. Microsoft is not playing such tricks. 4 GB of RAM. A graphics card with DirectX 12 support.

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Future Of Work: The 4 Biggest Workplace Trends In 2023

Bernard Marr

And Microsoft’s Mesh platform adds avatars and mixed reality capabilities to its Microsoft Teams collaborative working environment, to give users a taste of metaverse-like functionality. Nvidia is also promoting its Omniverse collaborative working tool as a metaverse platform.

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