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Microsoft’s Meandering XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

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.

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Oculus CTO John Carmack Talks Immersive Technology On The Joe Rogan Podcast

VRScout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The CTO explains his skepticism of the technology before diving into the unfulfilled promises made by Magic Leap in regards to their Magic Leap One Creator Edition headset. He also references the success of the Microsoft HoloLens within various fields of enterprise. . Image Credit: Joe Rogan Experience. [

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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

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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Magic Leap Could be a Great Strategic Acquisition

VRWorld

APRIL 28, 2017

Since Magic Leap’s inception in 2011, there has been great innovation in the technology sector focused in the virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) space with Magic Leap trying to create a new hardware interface designs. Enter Magic Leap. Kinect version 2.0

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. And we took that company to $250-million between 2008, 2009 to 2011. So then I get a call in 2011 from my friend, and he says, “Dan, you have to come back.” So this was before Oculus.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. And we took that company to $250-million between 2008, 2009 to 2011. So then I get a call in 2011 from my friend, and he says, “Dan, you have to come back.” So this was before Oculus.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality's Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. And we took that company to $250-million between 2008, 2009 to 2011. So then I get a call in 2011 from my friend, and he says, "Dan, you have to come back." So is, I think, Microsoft with Hololens.

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Venture Capitalists Contemplate How Much Exuberance Is Good for VR Investing

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NOVEMBER 13, 2016

With what’s going on from Project Tango and Microsoft, there are definitely big players in this space. in the summer of 2011 we reached 100 million smartphone users. By the end of 2011 the freemium money exceeded premium money. Microsoft and Facebook have talked about inside out tracking. What’s happened in the U.S.,

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Retraining for a Post-Retirement World with VRVoice’s Bob Fine

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In 2011, Bob launched the only printed magazine covering social media, The Social Media Monthly. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. I finally — finally, after a year and a half — I got to try out the Magic Leap in Laval, and it was a good experience.

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Retraining for a Post-Retirement World with VRVoice’s Bob Fine

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In 2011, Bob launched the only printed magazine covering social media, The Social Media Monthly. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. I finally — finally, after a year and a half — I got to try out the Magic Leap in Laval, and it was a good experience.

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Retraining for a Post-Retirement World with VRVoice's Bob Fine

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In 2011, Bob launched the only printed magazine covering social media, The Social Media Monthly. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. I finally -- finally, after a year and a half -- I got to try out the Magic Leap in Laval, and it was a good experience.

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

When you when you think of all of the technologies we have with Hololens and Magic Leap and we have all these amazing technologies for spatial computing. I think Magic Leap calls it the Magicverse. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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Creating a Dialogue Between Innovators and Educators, with VirtualiTeach’s Steve Bambury

XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom. I'm a Microsoft master trainer, so I do a lot of work with Microsoft technology. From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom. I do a lot with Apple technology.

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

When you when you think of all of the technologies we have with Hololens and Magic Leap and we have all these amazing technologies for spatial computing. I think Magic Leap calls it the Magicverse. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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AR Augmented Reality Industry Machine Learning

Creating a Dialogue Between Innovators and Educators, with VirtualiTeach’s Steve Bambury

XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom. I'm a Microsoft master trainer, so I do a lot of work with Microsoft technology. From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom. I do a lot with Apple technology.

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Microsoft’s Meandering XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

Oculus CTO John Carmack Talks Immersive Technology On The Joe Rogan Podcast

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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

Magic Leap Could be a Great Strategic Acquisition

The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality's Dan Lejerskar

Venture Capitalists Contemplate How Much Exuberance Is Good for VR Investing

Retraining for a Post-Retirement World with VRVoice’s Bob Fine

Retraining for a Post-Retirement World with VRVoice’s Bob Fine

Retraining for a Post-Retirement World with VRVoice's Bob Fine

Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

Creating a Dialogue Between Innovators and Educators, with VirtualiTeach’s Steve Bambury

Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

Creating a Dialogue Between Innovators and Educators, with VirtualiTeach’s Steve Bambury

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