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Immersive Technology for Education: How Virtual Reality Will Change the Learning Process

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This figure has been growing steadily since 2012 and does not plan to significantly stop its growth soon. Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. The growth in the volume of investments in VR is more than $2.5

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Alex Kipman Nominated for Inventor’s Award

Tech Trends VR

The Brazilian-born inventor gets recognition for his groundbreaking work with the Microsoft Hololens. The HoloLens incorporates several patent-protected Microsoft inventions, including Kipman’s motion sensors initially brought to market for the Xbox Kinect video game controller. billion in 2016.

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Microsoft Shows Off Rare Images of Early HoloLens Prototypes

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All those early prototype images Magic Leap is so fond of showing off are great, but they rank a far second when compared to a new set of images just revealed by Microsoft in relation to the HoloLens. 2012, about two years before the company would unveil the device to the public in Jan.

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Hololens Co-inventor & AR/VR Pioneer Avi Bar-Zeev Has Left Apple

Road to VR

Bar-Zeev helped found and invent the core technologies behind HoloLens at Microsoft, assembling the company’s very first AR prototypes, demos and UX concepts.

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See Times Square Underwater in Microsoft’s AR Art Exhibit

VRScout

The Big Apple takes a dip in this location-based augmented experience from Microsoft. In 2012, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that by 2100 sea levels could rise from 11 to 38 inches, depending on the volumes of greenhouse gases emitted. Image Credit: Microsoft. That is where AR comes in.

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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. In fact, in the XR communities, there are many esteemed members that are army veterans (like John Westra or Tony Rogers). Does the military personnel also use some XR accessories (e.g.

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Spatial Beats: 2020’s Top Ten

AR Insider

. $350 million came in at the last minute to allow a new CEO, Peggy Johnson, from Microsoft, to focus on enterprise business. Integrated Visual Augmentation System is using the Microsoft HoloLens to give soldiers an augmented view of the battlefield. The US Army’s XR IVAS. Unity’s IPO. Now valued at $40 B.