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Spatial Beats: Microsoft Mesh, Niantic & VR Training

AR Insider

This week, we look at takeaways from Microsoft Ignite, Space X, Pokemon Go and VR training from Bank of America. The company is going all in on Mixed Reality, to paraphrase its chief executive Satya Nadella, who used Microsoft’s AltspaceVR platform for his keynote. See his books here. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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What does Chat GPT Mean for Enterprise-Grade XR?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

In December, Ammaar Reshi created and sold a children’s book that he wrote using Chat GPT and physically published via Amazon Kindle Publishing in an exceedingly short time period. Where does Microsoft Fit into the Mix? ” Microsoft’s Azure platform optimizes emerging AI content creation platforms like GPT-3.5,

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The XR Week Peek (2025.02.18): Ray-Ban Meta sold 2M devices, Meta may be working on humanoid robots, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Looking at the chart of the sales on Amazon US, it is possible to see that the headset had five times the peak sales volume during the 2024 holiday season as it did in 2023. Microsoft will still provide the Azure cloud, but all the hardware and software should be provided by Luckeys startup. This is impressive.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.07): Meta has invested more than $10B on XR, Hololens 3 may have been canceled, and more!

The Ghost Howls

A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3. There is instead a rumored partnership with Samsung , where Samsung would actually build a new XR device and Microsoft offer the platform on top of which the headset may run. Tom Ffiske’s new book. Some updates on Meta products.

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XR Talks: Follow the Money for AR’s Trajectory

AR Insider

For Amazon , it’s selling us stuff. And for Microsoft , it’s enterprise productivity. We’ve examined evidence from each of the Big 5 in individual articles, a report , and a chapter in Charlie Fink’s book Convergence. Amazon meanwhile wants to be the commerce layer.

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Interview with Robert Scoble about Oculus Quest 2, Apple Glasses and more!

The Ghost Howls

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. He has also recently written together with Irena Cronin “The Infinite Retina” , a great book about the technologies of the future, like XR, AI, and autonomous vehicles. XR is going to conquer the consumer market.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.17): Big tech companies’ battle for talents, PSVR 2 still not confirmed for 2022, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. He has just announced his new book “The Metaverse: A Professional Guide” , which will be released on February, 2nd. News from partners (and friends).

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