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

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

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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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Q&A With Matt Bell: How Matterport Started Capturing The Real Estate Market In VR

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Matt Bell founded Matterport after the release of Microsoft Kinect and seeing it’s potential to create 3D environments to give someone that immersive feeling in a space. MB: Back in 2011, my co-founder Dave [Gausebeck] and I were very interested in the idea of creating the 3D equivalent of the camera. How did Matterport come to be?

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Scope AR Secures $9.7M Series A to Develop AR Training & Remote Assistance Tools

Road to VR

” SEE ALSO OpenXR Standard Ratified, Microsoft, Oculus, & Others to Release First Implementations. To date, the company had raised $15.8 The post Scope AR Secures $9.7M Series A to Develop AR Training & Remote Assistance Tools appeared first on Road to VR.

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

Road to VR

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

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He also references the success of the Microsoft HoloLens within various fields of enterprise. . He would eventually go on to develop the Oculus Rift alongside Palmer Lucky in 2011. . [ Image Credit: Joe Rogan Experience. [ 43:43 ] – Rogan and Carmack share their thoughts on Elon Musk’s machine-brain interface project, Neuralink.

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The AR Space Race, Part VIII: Startups

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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. First on that list is Gowalla. But now it’s back for more SoLoMo action….this this time with an AR focus.

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