Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2020

For the purposes of our beta, that includes genres like sports, card, simulation, and strategy games. While other companies like Amazon, Google, NVIDIA, and Microsoft are building out their own cloud game streaming services, none of them have both a standalone VR headset and a major VR ecosystem for a complete end-to-end solution.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2020

And, as we found in our full review , we weren’t big fans of Quest 2’s soft headstrap, so we’d highly recommend dropping the extra $50 for the Elite Strap accessory [Amazon] if you’re serious about playing PC VR games. Fortunately a free and official plugin from Microsoft also makes it compatible with SteamVR content.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Using smartphones and photogrammetry software, users can create realistic simulations of products and environments to improve the design and development process. Additionally, the growing photogrammetry market – forecasted to be worth $4.4 billion in 2034 – can help businesses leverage the emerging digital twin market.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The End of the Windows Mixed Reality In its latest Windows 11 24H2 update , Microsoft is removing some support frameworks for its MR hardware and software portfolio. The update sees Windows Mixed Reality added to the “Deprecated Features” list, which congregates features that Microsoft is no longer working on.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Since mid-2023, firms like Microsoft and Meta moved towards the wordage following the decline of faith towards the initial Metaverse wave towards the start of the year. Industrial Metaverse solutions could include XR-related innovations such as digital twins, immersive spaces, AR guidance, and simulations.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 18, 2021

LEGO Minecraft The Pig House | $40 | Amazon LEGO Minecraft The Trading Post | $16 | Amazon LEGO Minecraft The Abandoned Mine | $16 | Amazon LEGO Minecraft The Bee Farm | $16 | Amazon Read more.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

The Microsoft Store will be giving $100 gift codes with the purchase of the Oculus Rift. On both days, you can receive $100 off your Vive purchase where ever the VR system is sold, which includes Microsoft Stores, Amazon.com , Gamestop, Newegg.com, Micro-center, and Vive.com. Potioneer: The VR Gardening Simulator. and online.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

AWS, Proto to Debut Hologram Avatar At AWS re:Invent 2024, long-time Amazon Web Services partner Proto will unveil the next evolution of its AI-powered immersive hologram technology. This collaboration enables Proto to utilize features from Amazon Bedrock, including Anthropic’s Claude, which facilitates dynamic conversations.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2017

Mars Odyssey – An interactive single-player VR educational simulation that takes you to the distant red planet to repair NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers – including Viking, Pathfinder, Curiosity, and Opportunity – which have fallen under disrepair. Also available in VR – with both forms being demoed.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While the first version was an all-in-one with diffractive waveguides like Microsoft HoloLens, the new one is an all-in-two light device that connects to your smartphone and uses birdbath optics. For simulators, design experiences and other kinds of similar usages, it is a blast. What a weird decision…). Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

XMS provides trainees with interactive simulations to practice skills in a controlled digital environment. Moreover, XMS leverages Amazon Lex and Microsoft Azure AI to integrate conversational AI avatars to provide instant feedback during training scenarios. Alongside its client portfolio, Motive.io

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Foremost cloud leaders like AWS and Microsoft offer access to spatial computing solutions, such as Amazon Sumerian, for 3D scene creation. With a projected value of $544.6

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

The tool would also simulate muscle movements and lifelike hair textures. Numerous companies such as Adobe, Dell, Epic Games, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services trialled the Omniverse at the event. SIGGRAPH 2022 took place 8 – 11 August and wrapped up its world-class event on Thursday in Vancouver, Canada.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Foremost cloud leaders like AWS and Microsoft offer access to spatial computing solutions, such as Amazon Sumerian, for 3D scene creation. With a projected value of $544.6

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

There will also be behind-the-scenes insights into trends like digital twins, 3D reconstruction and simulation. The conference this year will feature speeches and insights from some market-leading brands, including Microsoft, Ubisoft, and Accenture. There will also be numerous exhibitions and demos to explore.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

For instance: Microsoft: A pioneer in metaverse spatial computing and XR technologies, Microsoft is one of the market leaders aligning the XR and spatial technology spaces. The company’s HoloLens headsets, Microsoft Mesh , and other emerging tools provide companies with various ways to explore the benefits of immersive interactions.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

The headset’s ease-of-use, solid game library, and reasonable price has pushed it to become Oculus’ best rated headset on Amazon thus far. While Microsoft and its other VR partners seem to have largely abandoned the Windows VR platform, HP surprised us in 2019 with the launch of Reverb, its second VR headset.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 23, 2023

Google’s layoffs come just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees. The firm’s VR training platform helps trainees overcome nerves and anxiety during a crucial social-led business opportunity by simulating meeting or event scenarios.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

And bringing AI into the physical world, Huang introduced Omniverse Cloud APIs to deliver advanced simulation capabilities. The cloud platform — available now — enables interactive, high-resolution simulation to accelerate climate and weather prediction. The industry has already embraced Blackwell.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2022, the Immerse Global Summit featured speakers from some of the world’s best-known brands, including Amazon, Meta, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Unity, and demonstrations of some of the most exciting metaverse technologies. Unity shared how digital twins were helping its customers unlock new levels of innovation.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Basically every VR experience will allow the user to feel as though they are in this simulated world and look around it, while more advanced systems allow for movement and interaction. from Amazon. Photo from Microsoft. from Microsoft. Detailed instructions are available here. Sony Playstation VR. 399.00-$499.00

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2025

This week we had many news confirming my previous impressions: The studio behind PowerWash Simulator VR announced the end of the updates to the game , just 14 months after the launch, because the development is costing more than the revenues. The same negative trends regard the Black Friday sales on Amazon.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and IBM are now offering Quantum computing as a service. It could simulate complex chemical reactions with unprecedented accuracy, potentially leading to breakthroughs in the treatment of diseases that have long eluded us.

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

Simulation: The industrial metaverse can be used to simulate industrial processes. Simulation: The industrial metaverse can be used to create virtual simulations of physical systems, which can be used to test and optimize designs, troubleshoot problems, and train workers.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 8, 2024

We witnessed AI's seamless integration into various business processes, significantly in retail, where giants like Amazon and Walmart exemplified this trend. While significant investments flowed in from major players like Meta and Microsoft, user adoption didn't soar as high as anticipated.

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VeeR VR

MAY 8, 2018

Keynote Keynotes was presented in the Dell Theater by The Void, Walt Disney Imagineering, VIVEPORT, Skydance, Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, Dell, and a stunning neon dance by Light Balance. Dancers performed Mesoamerican-styled dance around the temple to unfold a mysterious story.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We can use a simulation to help do what’s called exposure therapy. So, for example, someone who might have a fear of flying, we can develop a simulator that allows him to go through the experience, or fear of heights, or fear of spiders, or really anything that there is a fear reaction to. It’s just amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world. They do hundreds of simulation for a year, just to solve some very basic problem. What is a game?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world. They do hundreds of simulation for a year, just to solve some very basic problem. What is a game?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation. Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon. That is its most powerful use. Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation. Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon. That is its most powerful use. Alan: Amazing.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The game is very different from its predecessor, and it is less a realistic combat simulator and more an adrenaline multiplayer game, like Unreal Tournament or Quake Arena. Microsoft has acquired Zenimax for $7.5B. In-between the console wars, Microsoft has bought Bethesda’s parent company, Zenimax, for $7.5B. Let’s dream!).

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So Metastage uses Microsoft’s volumetric Hcap, holographic capture.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We can use a simulation to help do what's called exposure therapy. So, for example, someone who might have a fear of flying, we can develop a simulator that allows him to go through the experience, or fear of heights, or fear of spiders, or really anything that there is a fear reaction to. And it also wasn't very comfortable to wear.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Furthermore, the comparison with Microsoft doesn’t hold well: Microsoft was a software company that just didn’t have high standards, so it made products with many bugs. Amazon acquires Umbra. Amazon acquires Umbra. Amazon has just acquired the Finnish company Umbra. More info (Use Google Translate).

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