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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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2019

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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Sol founded REWIND, a VR and creative digital agency, in 2011 after growing demands for his professional work pulled him away from 15 years as a University Senior Lecturer in Digital Animation, Visual Effects & Emerging Technology. Solomon Rogers – Founder, REWIND. Peter Pashley – Head of Development, Ustwo Games.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Room 2011, West Hall. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). It’s not often you get both Oculus and Valve together days, let alone Google and Samsung, with bonus helpings of Epic Games, Owlchemy Labs, and Sensics. The Holodeck Year 2: Growing the VR Ecosystem in 2017. Room 2009, West Hall.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

Samsung confirmed at CES in January that its Oculus engineered Samsung Gear VR headset had passed an install base figure of 5 Million and more recently Google affirmed that it had shipped over 10 Million Cardboard viewers. SEE ALSO What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

But you can imagine, as this technology progresses quickly, a few years ago, we had Tango phones that had depth sensing cameras, now that went away and then all of a sudden the depth sensing cameras are back on the new Samsung phone. And that’s something that visionaries in AR have been talking about for at least a decade.

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