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In the fall of 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with a handful of hardware manufacturers to make developer headsets implementing the inside-out tracking technology seen on the HoloLens. DOES APPLE HAVE 1000+ ENGINEERS WORKING ON AR IN ISRAEL? HIGH-END VIRTUAL REALITY JUST GOT MORE AFFORDABLE. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.
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This lets you experience scenes that are a bit more complex than the ones that you can live on Microsoft’s device; The field of view is 40° Horizontal and 30° Vertical. And again, I appreciated the attention of the Florida company to the visual experience that the user should have, this is really great.
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This has been very interesting, because we now know what are the features that the Florida company is going to introduce. Yes, various games have been announced, but this is the true innovation proposed by the Florida company. This is for instance something that Microsoft lacks completely. Avatar Chat. This is good.
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people walking around), so I don't have an apples-to-apples comparison against Santa Cruz. The Florida company has released during the GDC the Lumin SDK, that is the development kit that has to be used to develop for LuminOS, the custom operating system of the Magic Leap device. Can’t wait to buy a Santa Cruz!
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And I actually had the opportunity to DJ at the Microsoft Build conference in — I want to say 2015 or 2016 — in the Wave, which was incredible. Alan: Yes I think there’s gonna be lots and lots of acquisitions that it’s already starting last week there was Apple acquired Akonia. Alan: That makes total sense.
And I actually had the opportunity to DJ at the Microsoft Build conference in — I want to say 2015 or 2016 — in the Wave, which was incredible. Alan: Yes I think there’s gonna be lots and lots of acquisitions that it’s already starting last week there was Apple acquired Akonia. Alan: That makes total sense.
And I actually had the opportunity to DJ at the Microsoft Build conference in — I want to say 2015 or 2016 — in the Wave, which was incredible. Alan: Yes I think there’s gonna be lots and lots of acquisitions that it’s already starting last week there was Apple acquired Akonia. Alan: That makes total sense.
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