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Power and Responsibility: Highlights from Microsoft Build

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Addressing an audience of over five thousand developers in Seattle’s Washington Convention Center, Nadella struck a soberly optimistic note; on the one hand insisting on the message he delivered last year about the great transformative power of technology, but also highlighting the monumental challenges that come with its rapid development.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 2: Setup, Props, and Full Body Virtual Reality

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cable extender of the same style from Amazon for £10, it was easy to use the USB extension cables to place two Vive Tracker dongles right into my playspace, by passing under the door alongside the headset tether. The image above from Terrel Strong at the University of Washington was from a detailed study into IK and body tracking.

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Digital Twins: XR Today Expert Roundtable

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A workplace trainee can learn how to use or repair a piece of equipment using a digital twin; some solutions allow trainees to take apart complex digital objects, like an engineer, to see the inner component – saving a lot of time, usually reserved for clean-up.

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The XR Week Peek (2025.01.21): The XR autumn continues, Windows 11 update kills WMR, and more!

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The same negative trends regard the Black Friday sales on Amazon. Microsoft is now forcing the update on all the machines for which it has the power to decide on the updates, like the Home versions of the operating systems. Why is this relevant for us XR people?

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Alex Kipman Nominated for Inventor’s Award

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Kipman started his professional career at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, right after graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2001. Built-in machine learning and AI-algorithms enable the HoloLens to be contextually aware of its surroundings and interpret user commands Click To Tweet.

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