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Arcturus Announces Microsoft MRCS Partnership at SIGGRAPH 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Microsoft has picked volumetric video company Arcturus as its primary marketing partner for its Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios (MRCS) solution provider. Arcturus’ solution includes over 100 cameras working simultaneously to capture a still or moving object.

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GDC 2017: Hands-On With Microsoft’s First Windows Holographic VR Headset

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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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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. Bell and I discuss what it was like founding the company, building the prototype and looking forward to Google Project Tango. How did Matterport come to be?

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Q&A: How Sketchfab Is Making 3D Models Accessible

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The two big things that have changed is how we can create and consume 3D. Now with solutions like 3D capture, photogrammetry, and depth sensors, anyone can create a 3D file. Microsoft Hololens. Do you see Google Project Tango as a big part of the company’s future? by Virtual Studio. on Sketchfab.

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Apple Brings Spatial Computing to iOS

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. Earlier this month, reports highlighted how Google and Samsung face a “ great fear ” when Apple releases new products.

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AR will mean dystopia if we don’t act today

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The martial arts actor Jet Li turned down a role in the Matrix and has been invisible on our screens because he does not want his fighting moves 3D-captured and owned by someone else. Soon everyone will be wearing 3D-capable cameras to support augmented reality (often referred to as mixed reality) applications. Google, etc.)

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Top XR Stories of 2019

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Google Ends the Daydream. The key message to come out of Google I/O this year was that the company largely abandoned its plans to push forward the development of headsets and content for VR effectively retiring the Daydream and focusing on Augmented Reality features for the Google Lens instead. HoloLens Army.