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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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Microsoft Teams Immersive Spaces is taking collaboration to a new level. Powered by Microsoft Mesh , the new XR experience is now in preview, allowing users to discover the era of “metaverse work.” What is Microsoft Teams Immersive Spaces? Any user can transform a virtual meeting into a fully 3D experience with just one click.

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AR Insider

JULY 16, 2020

How Daimler uses Unity across its automotive lifecycle. The division uses Unity to create a mixed reality pipeline connected to systems and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) data, then deploy applications to multiple platforms, including Microsoft HoloLens, Oculus devices, and smartphones. by Nick Davis. Production.

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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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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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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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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for AltspaceVR. Microsoft again, because some time ago they bought AltspaceVR , a VR social platform that was on the verge of bankruptcy. Unity (Nasdaq: U) for 3D Modeling and Animation Tools. I won’t discuss this in detail, but I assure you that they are infinitely better than Zoom/ Meet/ Teams.

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XROM

OCTOBER 15, 2023

In Microsoft Mesh, the immersive content you create is experienced by users on a desktop PC or in VR. The toolkit supports Unity so you can build environments in a familiar way and leverage existing scenes and assets to build experiences in Mesh. It also works without a server deployment, making it simple to get started.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2023

Providing an immersive space for consuming and interacting with information, XR represents perhaps the perfect way to deliver training and education to students in all environments. The company offers a broad range of AR and VR solutions, including VR training tools, and AR for assisted work.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

HoloLens 2 Video Review. Here you are my massive video review of the HoloLens 2 (featuring almost 1 hour of content) with many examples of interactions and mixed reality videos! If you prefer videos to walls of texts, this is what you should watch in this article: A HoloLens 2 Video Review just for you!

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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

After many years of waiting, and even a second iteration of the device scrapped away, Microsoft is finally going to announce the next generation of HoloLens. On stage, there will be Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft), Alex Kipman (the inventor of Kinect and HoloLens) and Julia White (Corporate Vice President). The time has come.

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VRScout

APRIL 28, 2022

In a compilation video released by the research team, you can see a person wearing a Microsoft Hololens mixed reality headset extinguishing an AR fire using a real-world fire extinguisher. Later in the video, we see a person wearing a Meta Quest VR while another person pilots a drone fitted with a camera.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to him, the technology can be used for training and delivering first-hand experiences to learners. As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 1, 2023

Using powerful modelling software and immersive hardware, many businesses are already experimenting with holographic experiences for training, entertainment, and marketing. So, which companies are leading the way to a new era of holographic content?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

Microsoft too had to lose $10B to let Xbox enter the gaming console market and compete with PlayStation. Image by Microsoft). Unity releases free guide on mobile development optimization. Unity has just released a free guide that teaches you how to optimize your game so that it can run smoothly on mobile devices.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. It’s been 2 hours full of cool insights and you can watch all of them in the video here below: if you have the time, I assure you you won’t regret watching it! The effects of the pandemic on XR.

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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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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. I encourage you to watch the videos linked below to understand how cool is it.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

But this is no animated video and I’m not watching this on a screen. Morgan Mercer // Vantage Point (Los Angeles, CA) – immersive training tools for corporate HR departments who are aiming to effectively train their employees on how to prevent and solve workplace issues like sexual harassment.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Someone has already received it and has already shared on the social media videos of the Air Link in action. On the other side, I’m afraid that for consumers this means also paying more for the VR content they like : if before training a year with FitXR was costing $30, now it will cost $120.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

There are quite a handful of platforms that allow you to develop virtual reality and augmented reality apps and content, but it is not easy to find an offline virtual reality school or academy with which to train for those interested in developing AR and VR apps. You also give 5% of net revenues per quarter although its free to use.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

XR Training & Gaming Startup Touts $5.2M The fund’s top five holdings are Nvidia (8.93%), Microsoft (4.91%), Roblox (4.85%), Tencent, majority shareholder of Epic Games (4.80%) and Unity (3.99%). The team proposes using this AI for video conferencing, storytelling, virtual assistants, and more. Speaking of Nvidia….

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

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. More info (Unboxing video on Upload VR). Two interesting videos on the Quest 2. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

Microsoft already stands as one of the biggest gaming companies in the world, thanks to the development of the Xbox ecosystem. Microsoft is one of the most exciting companies to watch for gaming companies and consumers interested in the potential of Mixed Reality in gaming. Most recently, ARKit 6 introduced new 4K video opportunities.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 8, 2022

The solution involved creating a 3D, configurable version of the incredible Arksen 85 yacht, powered by Unity. The Lumo company , a new train service running on the East Coast of the UK, took advantage of Lumo’s technology to grab the attention of their target audience. Microsoft and Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. It’s not clear on what platforms this functionality will be working on, but if I had to guess, I would say Project Cambria, since its body tracking was already revealed in a video some months ago.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 10, 2019

Training employees can be like pulling teeth – both for the employees and management. But thanks to XR technologies, Jonathan Moss has had success in finding new, innovative ways to get the team engaged in training at Sprint. They are on a mission to eliminate dull and ineffective training. Jonathan: No, absolutely not.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Mozilla updates its Unity WebVR exporter. Two years ago, I reviewed on this blog a Unity plugin that Mozilla had released in beta to let you create WebVR experiences from your Unity projects. Thanks to this exporter, every Unity developer can create a WebXR experience by just building the Unity project for HTML5!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

for training), and also for full-body tracking by all people performing in VRChat. Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference. As I’ve reported to you last week, Microsoft’s latest Ignite conference, where Microsoft Mesh was announced, was a true marvel, an example of how a truly immersive keynote should be held.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Others open the door to new opportunities for VR content development, training, and immersion. Combining 360-degree capture with solutions for spatial sound and integrations with tools like Unity, Unreal, and other engines, VR cameras are highly flexible. These tools could be excellent in a range of environments.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. You don’t even know how this made me happy!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

There are even integrations available for the tools teams already use. → Latest Arthur News Virtalis Intended to help companies collaborate on more complex projects, the Virtalis ecosystem supports everything from training and educational sessions to layout planning, operations, and business maintenance.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 10, 2019

Training employees can be like pulling teeth – both for the employees and management. But thanks to XR technologies, Jonathan Moss has had success in finding new, innovative ways to get the team engaged in training at Sprint. They are on a mission to eliminate dull and ineffective training. Jonathan: No, absolutely not.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

More info (Quest 2 Couch mode) More info (Vocal commands with “Hey Facebook”) More info (FAQ on Vocal Commands on Quest) More info (Virtuclear lenses) More info (Experimental 120Hz mode coming) More info (Video of Boz winking) More info (Quest 2 Pro teasing). Microsoft Ignite will be in VR. nDreams create $2M development fund.

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