VRScout

JANUARY 25, 2018

In darker times, the best 360° videos we had access too were grainy, nauseating clips of GoPro stunts and claustrophobic concerts. But now everywhere you look, amazing creators are creating high quality VR videos our past selves could only dream of. There’s a reason that Microsoft spent $2.5 Let’s get lost.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

For many, the 360 ° video of his daughter’s first steps was the first 360 ° video they ever watched. With it, Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated the benefits of 360 ° content and a major use case for consumers: to save and share family moments to be relived at any point in time. Impact on Consumers.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

Microsoft is using the term “Mixed Reality” as an umbrella to encapsulate VR, AR, and all other related devices. I can pick some pre-selected apps here like Microsoft Edge for web browsing, a Photo viewer, a Video client, and more. You can see those in action in the video above. Final Thoughts.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Sketch 360. Sketch 360 is not made by an indie, but by the mighty Microsoft. It is a product made by Microsoft Garage (something like a lab of ideas of Microsoft’s) that serves to sketch 360 videos. Microsoft Surface): this means that artists can sketch 360 videos by hand!

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2017

New Unity Tools Bring Interactivity and Real-time CGI to 360 Video, Now in Beta. Microsoft Shows Windows in VR, Gives Acer VR Headset to Vision Summit Audience. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. Google Bringing Native ‘Tango’ AR Support to Unity Later This Year.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In terms of YouTube, for example, to watch 360 videos with a Daydream you’d currently need to use the official app, but with WebVR integrated you’d be able to view content through the Chrome browser instead. WebVR allows users to view VR experiences on web pages rather than through native apps.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

For example, say you’re working on a 360° video. Now, instead of telling one of your collaborators to have the bear enter “about fifteen seconds” into the video, you can tell them to unleash the beast “exactly 65 flicks after the fifteenth second.”

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

H266 video standard can pave the way to 8K video streaming. The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (FIT) together with various partners from industry including Apple, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Son y has confirmed the release and official adoption of H.266/Versatile The other games were A.R.T.I,

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Microsoft Word won’t be text flying around you in 3D space. Flat content like movies and videogames won’t suddenly disappear or get replaced by 360 videos and VR games.” As Bigscreen CEO Darshan Shankar puts it: “2D content isn’t going anywhere.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2017

One big name that was notably missing from the VR news at E3 was Microsoft—who, contrary to many predictions, did not announce anything VR-related for Xbox. CALL FOR YOUTUBERS WHO LOVE 360 VIDEO: THE CREATORS LAB. Based in New York, a startup called VRB (pronounced “verb”) has been acquired by Samsung.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Jaunt first cut their teeth on cinematic VR when they came out of stealth in 2014, not only producing some pretty high-quality 360 video throughout the years, but also a professional-grade 360 camera dubbed NEO.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Microsoft’s Immersive Museum. Microsoft also created a virtual museum for Black History Month. The 360° gallery uses desktop controls for looking around, but you can’t walk through the gallery like Virbela, you have to click arrows on the floor. Rendever Hosts Live Events With Tie-Ins to Black History Month.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2023

According to the CMA: “Microsoft already enjoys a powerful position and head start over other competitors in cloud gaming and this deal would strengthen that advantage giving it the ability to undermine new and innovative competitors.” So I wonder if this suspension could also change Microsoft’s future plans concerning the M-word.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Microsoft releases Azure Remote Rendering. A relaxing video in VR.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360 VIDEO AND ANIMATION. Facebook wants to convert their current 1.7B

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Windows ‘Mixed Reality’ VR Headsets – Microsoft Store. Remarkably, neither Oculus Rift nor HTC Vive are on the list below, as only Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard, Google Daydream, and Windows ‘MR’ VR headsets have access. image courtesy NBC. image courtesy NBC. image courtesy NBC. VR Headsets Required.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In most incarnations of 180 and 360 immersive streaming technology, the visual adjustments from the movement of the user’s head are processed locally on the device at a high rate, rather than sending the motion to some remote server and waiting to receiving an updated frame which corrects for head motion. Image courtesy Microsoft.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Pixvana, a Seattle-based startup creating a cloud-based processing and delivery platform for VR video, today announced a $14 million Series A funding round led by Vulcan Capital with participation from Raine Ventures, Microsoft Ventures, Cisco Investments and Hearst Ventures, and existing investor Madrona Venture Group.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

You’ll use your remote to pan around the 360 video on your flatscreen (which is, admittedly, nowhere near to the experience in a headset), but this will also support live 360 video– which will probably be pretty cool to watch content like live concerts or sporting events. MICROSOFT’S UPCOMING MOTION CONTROLLERS.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? This makes us clearly understand that gamers are still not really into VR, and confirms the thesis by Microsoft that is not adding VR to Xbox. And again… is it possible that this headset can accommodate both forms of tracking ?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Pixvana , a cloud-based VR video company, today announced their much awaited solution for publishing and streaming 360 video, a platform that promises to deliver up to 10K resolution streaming playback from the cloud to your VR devices. Even 4K video spread across a 360-degree sphere leaves much to imagination.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 21, 2022

The platform also allows users to collaborate with content creation tools and 3D models across devices, along with Microsoft Office integrations to boost efficiency and prevent fatigue from video meetings.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. Thanks to BattleGroundsVR devs for the tip). Two creative XR things worth watching.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. OpenXR will finally be implemented.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

All the way back in 2015, Microsoft sent an original Hololens AR headset to the ISS with a Remote Expert Mode so ground crews could help astronauts with repairs and a Procedure Mode that overlayed equipment tutorials for novel systems. Like HTC, Microsoft had to modify the device's tracking system to work in microgravity.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Virtual Office Space Throughout the pandemic, we have become accustomed to Zoom, Skype, Microsoft Teams, and other communication tools to provide us with virtual communication. Youtube and other major content hosting services are growing their repositories of 360° video content.

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JUNE 14, 2017

It’s early days for the show so we don’t have a full line-up of what’s going to be there just yet, but you can expect a pretty good variety of projects across gaming, 360 video and more as well as talks from industry leaders. The last event had sessions from Google, Microsoft, HTC and more, for example.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

We’ll see the FacioMetrics tech make its way into videos and Live broadcasts in the near future – and eventually it is likely that facial image analysis would be useful for the customizable avatars that Oculus is creating, too (as well as create super datasets of human emotional reactions). NOKIA AND SONY GET TOGETHER FOR 360 VIDEO.

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MARCH 1, 2017

I tried a Microsoft prototype VR headset at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and got the first public look at the company’s vision for mixed reality beyond Hololens. I was among a handful of journalists invited to see the internal Microsoft prototype, though I was told photos or videos for my demo would not be allowed.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Following its debut, Igloo Vision began rolling the product out to end users, including Microsoft, Nike, and AtkinsRéalis. This platform uses Microsoft Teams for calls and Microsoft Office apps such as PowerPoint, Miro, Alleo, and Power BI. The first showcase of the Igloo Core Engine solution was at last year’s ISE event.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

A leak by the famous leaker WalkingCat shows some pictures of the HP Reverb G2, which is the result of a collaboration between HP, Microsoft, and Valve. There’s a speech at AWE held by Microsoft and HP on 28th , so this may be a good moment for the launch. Image by Microsoft). News worth a mention.

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VRScout

MARCH 24, 2018

You can explore the VR series now through the Inception app, available for download on the Oculus Rift , HTC Vive , Microsoft , Gear VR , Google Daydream , Sony Playstation , iOS and Android. “VR provides a new avenue for Refinery29 to reach their large vast network base of young women,” said Inception CEO Benny Arbel.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

Considering that Microsoft owns part of Facebook, this wouldn’t sound impossible to me, even if I thought that Xbox would have been compatible with WMR headsets. The one that caught more my attention is the official release of the “Vive Video 6 DOF Lite” mode. Podcast hosts claim to have a reliable source telling that.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Looming on the horizon for VR/AR productivity is Microsoft. In November of last year, 360 video company VRideo closed down citing growing overhead and limited funding. Today’s news is the second significant VR shuttering in the past three months.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. Valve could provide some audio-visual improvements, while Microsoft its WMR platform, with inside-out tracking of controllers. HP announces the Reverb G2.

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ARVR

JULY 7, 2020

Creating remote MR productions Microsoft Mixed Reality Dev Days in May 2020 happend at AltspaceVR Creating these types of experiences require interdisciplinary skills and UX designers can play a major role in designing and engaging experience for users. All the 360 videos and photos belong to this category.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

Air New Zealand is one airlines provider that is testing how the Microsoft Hololens can help improve in-flight customer service. Releasing a simple 360 video as a marketing ploy is old news these days, so it’s refreshing when companies embrace VR to enhance their experiential brand activations in unique ways.

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