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Road to VR
JUNE 22, 2023
At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017. If Microsoft goes in half-cocked, maybe.
Road to VR
MARCH 19, 2017
IDC themselves predicted in 2011 that by 2015, Microsoft’s then new (and now dead) Windows Phone platform would overtake Apple’s IOS as in the mobile phone market. It should also be pointed out that, as is the case for every market researcher, predictions can easily be wide of the mark.
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AR Insider
JUNE 23, 2021
Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. It was acquired by Facebook in 2011, then mostly faded away. Major AR development platforms offer AR object persistence — Google Cloud Anchors , Apple GeoAnchors , Microsoft Spatial Anchors — that don’t talk to each other.
ARVR
JANUARY 21, 2022
APPLE ARKIT 5 The latest version of Apple’s open source mobile augmented reality development toolset, ARKit 5 , offers significant improvements from ARKit 4. ARKit appears to have the best compatibility between software and hardware, as Apple is responsible for all aspects of their devices. billion by 2024.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 29, 2019
I gave a presentation of the first idea of a videodisc of the “ Plastico ” at a private conference held at Apple Computer in 1986 (my talk was published in 1998 here ). Things started to change in 2011, when the economic recovery reached the point where donors were willing to step forward once again. Where is that?
ARVR
JUNE 28, 2021
Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. It was acquired by Facebook in 2011, then mostly faded away. Google Cloud Anchors , Apple GeoAnchors , Microsoft Spatial Anchors ?—?that Point your phone (or future glasses) at places and objects to contextualize them.
VRWorld
APRIL 14, 2017
This processor is two years old, and since the sequence was 16-core in 2011, and 260-core in 2015, we wonder if the 2017 or 2018 will see 390-core, 520-core, or 650-core design… we might even see a thousand-core plus design in a few years time. Add in Apple’s domestic CPUs and GPUs. Remember, this is a CPU, not a GPU.
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