Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

But beyond it being a term for the digital, persistent, and highly immersive virtual worlds we will become used to, what it actually is – or will be – is up for debate! Huge companies like Facebook and Microsoft are throwing vast sums of money at their attempts to build, and therefore define, the metaverse.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Focal rivalry manifests itself when we’re seeing real and virtual objects together and the wrong things are in focus. In May 2019, a research team at the University of Pisa conducted a study exploring how focal rivalry affects people’s performance when using AR to complete precision tasks. See Also: ThirdEye Releases X2 MR Glasses.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Researchers at Microsoft have developed a device they call the “canetroller”, a haptic VR controller that works with the HTC Vive headset and tracker to help people with visual impairments navigate virtual environments. Object location went smoother in the indoor environment.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 8, 2019

And exploring a few of those possibilities is what I had the chance to do when I collaborated with Microsoft Education to write the Immersive Experiences in Education white paper we’ve published at the ISTE 2019 conference a few weeks ago. Methodology. Now, I’m very much a technology enthusiast. Click To Tweet. Paul Turnbull ?President

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ARVR

JANUARY 11, 2021

Virtual Reality is an immersive simulation of reality in which the surrounding world is completely replaced with a computer generated world. This is achieved using a headset that completely fills the users field of view in combination with body tracking to map the players body into the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

The post I’ve found today thanks to a tweet by Philip Rosedale shows one of these stories about the dark world of Ethereum. Microsoft IVAS program is not doing great. The special IVAS program that Microsoft is carrying on to develop a special version of HoloLens 2 for the US Army is not doing that well. Other news. Learn more.

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ARVR

APRIL 27, 2022

Microsoft recently announced that it will be launching its own enterprise Metaverse in 2022, and users will be able to access business tools like MS Excel and PowerPoint on it (yeey, great news ha!). In Metaverse, brands will offer their customers hyper-personalized experiences without worrying about the physical world’s many barriers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Talking about visuals, the display resolution is 1800 × 1920 per eye, which is even less than the one of the Quest 2, but here there are two displays, one per each eye , so there are fewer “wasted pixels” Plus the lenses are not Fresnel ones, but pancake lenses studied to give you a bigger eye box. Partnership with Microsoft.

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AIXR

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In Cline’s incarnation, the Metaverse is an oasis, a seamless blend of real life and virtual life, achieving a kind of utopia. Using headsets and cryptocurrencies, ‘players’ can inhabit a virtual world, interacting, shopping, or taking part in games in real-time, all from the comfort of their own homes.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset. Virtual Reality is 44% more addictive than traditional gaming. The metaverse hype is growing, and with it, all the interest of the big brands towards XR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For the most part, your digital identity on channels like Microsoft Teams and Zoom is likely to consist of a face and a set of shoulders. A full-body avatar could improve that sense of presence, helping employees connect in a more human, engaging format in virtual worlds.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 18, 2023

Now, as we look ahead to the next iteration of the future of work, immersive platforms and the metaverse are becoming increasingly intriguing. Technology giants like Microsoft, Meta, and Varjo are already investing in the idea of “metawork” , introducing new platforms and toolkits intended to connect employees in a universal digital environment.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the last few years, this disruptive concept has evolved from being just another sci-fi pipedream, to a common component of virtually every growing industry. Other studies suggest by 2030 , the XR space will be worth more than $1.1 According to Mordor Intelligence , the XR market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 57.91% by 2027.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

Everyone can create his online meeting spaces; It lets you customize your avatars; It lets you import in your virtual world whatever you want : Youtube videos, web pages, 3D models from Sketchfab, etc… If it is online, you can import it in Hubs. Azure is one of the best cloud providers (Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2022

One of the biggest endorsements for XR in the last years has been the $22B contract that Microsoft signed with the US Army to provide a modified version of HoloLens 2 glasses that should “improve the lethality” of troops. The US Army confirms IVAS deployment for 2022. Researchers create a camera that is big as a grain of salt.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

BISim delivered a series of three training events for the UK MOD’s VRLT pilot study demonstrating VR and mixed reality (MR) capabilities using BISim products. Navy as well as Apache helicopters using real-world cockpits with “out of the window” virtual world rendering. haptics suits ) or does a VR headset suffice?

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2023

“Using technology, Emperia aims to make virtual worlds into the future of e-commerce, expanding the reach to new and future online shoppers, increasing brand loyalty and creating a complete new shopping experience,” Dogadkina said. On the other hand, a Deloitte survey from September found that just 5% of U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. HoloLens 2 could be put on sale on September. In any case, we will see.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Studies show that immersive learning experiences can deliver results faster and more cost-effectively than traditional training initiatives. Sometimes, this might involve using digital twins of products, machinery, and environments in a virtual world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Defining the Metaverse: From Consumer to Industrial The Metaverse is often (mistakenly) perceived as a single, all-encompassing virtual world wherein various companies create digital experiences. At Microsoft Inspire 2023, Microsoft announced it would enhance its industrial metaverse initiative.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 1, 2023

Already, this vision has captured the attention of some of the world’s marketing leading XR brands. Recently, the WEF team shared insights from a McKinsey study, highlighting the prediction that many younger consumers in Generation X, Z and the Millennial landscape will spend around 5 hours per day in metaverse environments.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 17, 2017

Already, this blended approach is being embraced by industry players like Microsoft. “We We talk about VR and AR as their own separate industries, but they are in fact simply screens into a virtual world,” says Full Sail program director Rob Catto. The difference is that the screens actually put you into that world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

For the past two years, it featured a virtual world made in VRChat by us of VRrOOm, and this year, the virtual world was still there in parallel with the physical one. I’ve personally met and had a chat with people from Unity and Epic Games, Roblox, The Sandbox, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Rec Room.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The new VR headset enhances everything from resolution and field of view to tracking and input ; It will connect to PS5 with a single cord to simplify setup and improve ease-of-use while enabling a high-fidelity visual experience; It will feature controllers carefully studied for VR. Microsoft Ignite will be in VR.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 23, 2022

After laying the groundwork with history and definitions in the first four chapters, in Part II of his book Matthew Ball discusses in seven chapters the various components which he feels go into the building of a metaverse: networking, computing, virtual world engines, interoperability, hardware, payment systems, and blockchain technology.

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ARVR

JANUARY 18, 2022

Meta corporations and Microsoft almost simultaneously announced work on unified virtual worlds, and the focus on the “internet of the future” even led to the renaming of Facebook (but only the companies, social networks left their familiar name). Why Should You Host Your Next Event in the Metaverse?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

The game appears fantastic : the graphics are high-level, the interactions are carefully studied to be natural (e.g. I had no news until some days ago, when various Youtubers and professionals publicly or privately claimed that they have been invited to join a private beta of the virtual world. Pico Neo 2 is going on sale.

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Hypergrid Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

While AR is a critical component of consumer offerings like Pokemon Go and Snapchat’s Lens Studio , applications which enable users to interact with the virtual world and play with reality-enhancing digital layers, AR has real value to add beyond gimmicky consumer applications. Streetview. Image courtesy Edgybees.).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

The ecosystem is full of people that keep writing articles about “How we will study in the metaverse”, “How we will work in the metaverse”, and that make talks about how one day we will have a concert with 20,000 people all together in VR like if it was happening in real life. This meme says it all. Cloud rendering.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2022

So this is just another speculative virtual world; The minting was so successful that it disrupted the whole Ethereum blockchain. And if someone is giving money for a game that doesn’t know how it is, it means that is not buying the game, it is just speculating money. Outstanding move!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

MRTK, not to be confused with VRTK, is the official SDK to develop for Microsoft HoloLens and HoloLens 2. The interesting stuff is that this smartphone actually portraits the virtual world in front of it and understands the virtual environment by using Google Lens! :O has been released. Decentraland is growing.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

We have Brandon Harper, he’s a designer at Hololens at Microsoft, with an amazing story to tell. One other thing that I noticed that you guys are covering is virtual worlds and digital twins. We have Brandon Harper, he’s a designer at Hololens at Microsoft, with an amazing story to tell. What does that mean?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It was a great place to be an architect, especially as a student, and I had the choice of taking some time off from school and then working—work study. For software, they were working with startup companies like Microsoft and Adobe. Every time we design a virtual world, we are able to set these things up as part of our business plan.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Virtual reality and its virtual cousin augmented reality are big business nowadays. For example, Microsoft recently announced a deal worth approximately $500 million with the U.S. Augmented reality applications have a lot in common with virtual reality, so the above principles for testing should also be applied.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. Microsoft has been very active in this area for years and their video on the history of flight simulation is a good introduction.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 14, 2019

From the promise of virtual reality to it becoming real, Elizabeth has been an industry leader always pushing the limits of technology. So, putting some of the physical world together with a lot of the virtual world is a really wise idea. And I know there was a study recently, or a kind of a case study of Bell helicopter.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Metastage is the first US partner for the Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Software, and their soundstage is located in Culver City, California. Volumetric capture — thanks to the Microsoft system, I think — is finally really ready to be used in a major way in all these projects. It wasn’t reanimated.

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