XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Speaking earlier this year at the Microsoft Garage for the New York edition of The Creativity Conference was a pleasure. I also use technologies such as Epic Games’ Unreal Engine , motion capture (mocap), and Disguise Designer to produce my VNCCII XR stage shows. Additionally, Unreal Engine’s latest update , v5.3,

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 22, 2022

” According to Epic Games’ Vice-President of Unreal Engine, Marc Petit , his enterprise’s goal was to build an open metaverse that “enriches humanity and is home to a thriving, fair ecosystem.”

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

I think this is a very smart pricing strategy, because it more or less replicates the one of HoloLens 2, while undercutting it by $200 in its lowest tier. Microsoft Mixed Reality department is currently in a confused moment and it is not clear when, how, and if will ever reply to this device. Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Sahni also highlighted how new workplace applications are coming to Quest 3, including Microsoft Mesh, Windows 365, and Adobe High Five. AWE 2023: Lenovo on its Enterprise First XR Strategy Lenovo is working hard within the busy XR marketplace to debut a product portfolio of enterprise-grade immersive hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. A bizarre strategy, that doesn’t surprise me anymore, though. Who knows….

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 3, 2023

From Zoom to Microsoft, both platforms and others are helping to facilitate a better-connected world. Moreover, the report mainly analyses how macro and technology trends impact jobs, skill sets, and transformation strategies across the 2023-2027 timeframe. The world is still adjusting to these new expectations to improve ROI.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This aligns it with the prices for competing solutions like the Apple Vision Pro and Microsoft HoloLens 2. Users can access over 100 third-party applications and engines, including Unreal Engine and Unity. For those with advanced extended reality strategies, the upgraded versions of the XR-4 base headset are particularly compelling.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

However, other cloud services continued to grow, including Nvidia's GeForce Now and Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming. Games are gradually becoming capable of producing photo-realistic levels of image fidelity in real-time – some of the most impressive being those built with the Unreal 5 engine.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

This latest acquisition is another piece in a secretive strategy: over the past few years Snapchat has quietly acquired a couple of other potentially augmented reality-related companies as well as talent. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

I hope that a future rumor clarifies a bit more what is Facebook’s strategy. (Thanks Alessio Palumbo for the tip!). Unreal Engine 4.25 update, Unreal Engine has added many features that may be useful in crafting XR experiences. In my opinion, 2021 is a better year to talk about a new Quest. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Using assisted reality smart glasses, the wearer of the device can connect with colleagues via video conferencing applications such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, where experts on the other end of the line see what the worker sees (point of view) as s/he observes a specific scenario in a factory, for example.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2021

Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, said it would consider building a launch title for Sony’s “next VR platform” during negotiations about Fortnite cross-play on PlayStation in 2018. With the company’s next VR headset not expected to launch until at least 2022, it’s unclear if the Sony took up the offer.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

When one finds out that she worked at Microsoft in the early days of Encarta Encyclopedia and World Atlas , it starts to make sense. She created an internal team at Microsoft to manage these complex issues across the entire company. “All Her time working at Microsoft led her to the IGDA.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

After that, I headed for China to pursue my dream and headed marketing and strategy for the release of the Microsoft A.I. The aim in developing the PanguVR engine was to equip content producers to create immersive and interactive content, in UE4 (Unreal VR Engine), automatically meaning without any learning curve. What is it?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

So, the company has created this androgenic girl called Mica , which should be as close as possible to a real human, featuring a great visual quality (thanks to Unreal Engine) and credible eye movements and facial microexpressions. This is for instance something that Microsoft lacks completely. Avatar Chat.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. You can see this in today’s AR products (and despite what Microsoft or Magic Leap call their devices, they really are augmented reality devices that you wear on your face).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A leading general contractor within the Pacific Northwest, Sellen Construction was searching for a new way to help designers, engineers, contractors, and anyone else involved in a construction project collaborate on successful strategies. Microsoft and the Haas Group. Microsoft and PCL Construction. HTC VIVE and CannonDesign.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

This business strategy of selling to few people for a high price has completely sense , considering that all the device has been conceived to add all the features that could make it compelling mostly for professionals. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. And alongside Hill+Knowlton Strategies, one of the WPP [Group] PR and strategy agencies. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. And alongside Hill+Knowlton Strategies, one of the WPP [Group] PR and strategy agencies. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. And alongside Hill+Knowlton Strategies, one of the WPP [Group] PR and strategy agencies. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The enterprise also launched its end-to-end metaverse strategy late last year, leading to improved financial profiles. Microsoft acquired Blizzard Activision in an unprecedented $68.7 billion, just after striking a major deal with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Microsoft acquired Blizzard Activision in an unprecedented $68.7

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually. This is a huge pity: CES 2022 won’t be cool as we expected… but we still hope to see interesting XR announcements from there.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. So is, I think, Microsoft with Hololens. It stands for effortless. So that’s the first one.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. So is, I think, Microsoft with Hololens. It stands for effortless. So that’s the first one.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So you don't know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. So is, I think, Microsoft with Hololens. It stands for effortless. So that's the first one. Affordable.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

It's adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 , Unity 5 and Amazon’s Lumberyard to provide developers an easy path to take amazing in-game shots. The game was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on 19 May 2015, and received critical acclaim. What's Nvidia Ansel?

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

The reason the company was started was because, like I said, all these use cases were so obvious, especially after being in the space for a long time, that I saw all this amazing commercial potential that was only being unrealized because the technology wasn’t good enough. I think that was the best thing that they did with HoloLens 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

The reason the company was started was because, like I said, all these use cases were so obvious, especially after being in the space for a long time, that I saw all this amazing commercial potential that was only being unrealized because the technology wasn’t good enough. I think that was the best thing that they did with HoloLens 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

The reason the company was started was because, like I said, all these use cases were so obvious, especially after being in the space for a long time, that I saw all this amazing commercial potential that was only being unrealized because the technology wasn’t good enough. I think that was the best thing that they did with HoloLens 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. But then you look at Unreal. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. We saw Burning Man go online this year.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. But then you look at Unreal. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. We saw Burning Man go online this year.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. But then you look at Unreal. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. We saw Burning Man go online this year.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

After having read this post, I think that people at Unity and Unreal Engine should do something to fix this issue. Watch Microsoft Office in XR. VR professional (and also Patreon supporter of mine) Ilias Kaspouranis has written the second chapter of its post about Single Pass Stereo , and what problems it may cause if used improperly.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

HP and Microsoft, they’re running huge departments in this, just because they were early and learned how to do it. No offence to Microsoft, but we’re not living in Windows anymore. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity. This technology is aerosolized now and it can show up anywhere, in any way.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

HP and Microsoft, they’re running huge departments in this, just because they were early and learned how to do it. No offence to Microsoft, but we’re not living in Windows anymore. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity. This technology is aerosolized now and it can show up anywhere, in any way.

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