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Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent

Road to VR

A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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BISim tells us how XR is relevant for the Army

The Ghost Howls

Military simulations are one of the fields where virtual reality has always been an important technology , even before that VR had its new renaissance in 2012. I joined BISim in 2009 after seven years of working in engineering positions in video games companies. Hello Otakar, can you please introduce yourself to my readers?

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What Can Big Tech Companies Learn from Second Life?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

” The comments come as big tech companies, including Microsoft, Nvidia, Epic Games, and Meta, invest billions of dollars into metaverse platforms. Research from the New Scientist revealed in 2009 that only about 10 percent of all users who made accounts ever bothered to return after their first visit.

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Why is Apple Buying NextVR?

AR Insider

The company began with 3DTV broadcasting technology in 2009, pivoted skillfully to VR during the halcyon days of 2015–2016, and attracted funding to the tune of $115m from media investors like Comcast Ventures and MSG. The answer, as ever, must be some combination of people, deals, technology, and IP. as well later this week.

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Sony Santa Monica Studio Prototyped A God of War VR Demo For PSVR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

For Microsoft it’s the Halo and Gears of War games. During an interview with Glixel , the Head of PlayStation’s Magic Lab, Richard Marks, recounted the several years the company has been working on some form of experimental technology that contributed to the creation of the PSVR headset.

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Halo Studio Head Leaves To Work On Microsoft’s Mixed Reality

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Microsoft is shuffling the Studio Head behind its top gaming franchise, Halo, to come and work on its growing mixed reality team. This week, though, a blog post on the Halo Waypoint portal noted that Ayoub was leaving the studio to go and work on another important area of Microsoft: mixed reality.

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Immersive Video Key to Boosting Engagement, BlueJeans Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

BlueJeans has remained a longstanding partner of immersive solutions providers like Microsoft, Vuzix, Magic Leap, Mootup, and Google Glass Enterprise. Widely used across XR devices such as Microsoft’s HoloLens 2, Microsoft Teams has recently launched real-time 3D (RT3D) avatars to boost meeting attendee engagement.

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