ARPost

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Microsoft, which apparently produces one of the best-performing augmented reality headsets on the market (HoloLens), is buying a video game production company Blizzard for a frightening amount of money: 68 billion dollars. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for AR Headsets. There was no marketable product at the time of the acquisition.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 11, 2021

Russian government hackers piggybacked on cybersecurity software (!!!!) to penetrate deep into hundreds of government and corporate systems. 350 million came in at the last minute to allow a new CEO, Peggy Johnson, from Microsoft, to focus on enterprise business. Image source: Apple. The hack of the century. Unity’s IPO.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

A new cycle of XR The Apple Vision Pro launch has been a disruptive moment for our industry (Image by Apple) As I said in a popular post a few months ago , I think we have entered a new cycle for immersive realities. Huawei and Pico are rumored to be working on an Apple Vision Pro competitor).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 21, 2024

Over the past few years, the US Army has worked with Microsoft and its HoloLens division to create a bespoke headset purpose-built to boost military tactics and awareness. For Microsoft, the US Army IVAS contract reached an estimated $22 billion, a substantial figure for any headset vendor. The firm debuted version 1.2 pounds to 2.85

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Upload VR

JANUARY 18, 2023

Apple reportedly indefinitely postponed its AR glasses, but plans to eventually release a more affordable headset model. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that standalone Apple Glasses had at one point years ago been planned for 2023. Glasses Shelved. Some startups like Nreal have already released primitive AR glasses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 19, 2023

Microsoft has reportedly planned to reduce the number of employees working on its US Army mixed reality (MR) headset. Microsoft began reducing staff headcounts on Wednesday across the company’s extended reality (XR) division and plans to finalise the full 10,000 by late March. trillion funding package backed last month.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The spatial computing-focused privacy expert believes that industry self-governance will be more impactful. ” Google could be the knowledge layer , Facebook the social layer , Microsoft the enterprise productivity layer , and Amazon the commerce layer. But real change will be measured in action, says Pearlman.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2016

.” During his address on stage, Sweeney urged the audience to consider that, “if we ever allow one company to own the meta-verse, then that company would have more power than any government that has ever existed.” Sweeney’s ultimate example of a distressingly closed platform is Apple’s app store.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 4, 2022

Microsoft is suspending all new sales of its products and services in Russia amidst the invasion of Ukraine by Putin's forces. In a blog post , Microsoft's president & vice chair Brad Smith also said the company's stopping "many aspects" of its business in Russia "in compliance with governmental sanctions decisions."

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2023

Apple’s mixed reality (MR) headset has faced new setbacks after it dropped its exclusive assembly partner, Digitimes reported on Tuesday. Apple initially tasked Taiwanese firm Pegatron with assembling its upcoming MR headset, but has recently removed the company from its supply line, the report said.

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Upload VR

MAY 18, 2023

A new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman includes some interesting claims about the history of Apple's head mounted displays development effort. In January, Gurman reported that Apple had indefinitely postponed the AR glasses , shifting its full focus to the upcoming headset and development of a more affordable model down the line.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2025

In a storyline that mirrors the rise of Apple’s Vision Pro, the Moohan headset was finally publicly revealed following years of speculation at the tail end of 2024with further reveal coming in the first month of 2025. Recently, Samsung’s dive into the XR headset market has been stealing headlines.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on. Additionally, the government is involved and has played a critical role in the Chinese market, and its policies, both local and national, have effectively promoted the application of VR technology in China.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 6, 2024

Recent reports show that Apple Vision Pro sales are dropping, only a few months after the spatial computing device became generally available to US customers. But what does it mean for Apple as an XR vendor, and the wider MR and spatial computing market overall? Or is it just a natural result of Apple’s high pricing?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 24, 2024

This could mean you can access crucial business tools, from CAD software to Microsoft Teams’ Immersive Spaces. There are also three options, including a Focal option with boosted mixed reality capabilities and a Secure edition for governments and business users. FAQ What VR works with PCs?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. OpenXR will finally be implemented.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Imagine a Chinese school (that are forced by the government to use VR) how much money can save by buying 300 3DOF headsets instead of 300 6DOF ones (the answer is: around $100K ). In its personal crusade against Microsoft, optics expert Karl Guttag has listed in 4 articles all the defects of the HoloLens 2. The other games were A.R.T.I,

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Representatives of the JianXi province and also the vice prime minister Liu He have visited the venue, and the Chinese Government has confirmed its strong interest in VR, that is seen as a strategic technology. And while China always moves chaotically, I think that the push of the government is helping its VR companies. Learn more.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 27, 2023

Recently, Microsoft entered an extended partnership with OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, to expand the tech solution to business clients. Recently, Microsoft and Amazon cut back roughly 10,000 employees, and Meta dismissed approximately 11,000 people. Apple Teases Reality Pro Specs, Disney/Sony Partnership On Monday, Apple Inc.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This year saw massive interest in MR headsets following Apple’s Vision Pro debut, and Meta looks to own the space following its experience with MR via its Pro headset. The XR marketplace could experience shockwaves when Apple debuts its headset. Meta is moving towards MR headsets instead of purely VR devices.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 28, 2022

Microsoft, Disney, Sony Interactive Entertainment, NVIDIA, TikTok owner ByteDance, Apple, HTC VIVE, Nextech AR, and many others have begun exploring potential metaverse solutions, sparking an industry-wide exploration of use cases, applications, technologies, and ecosystems.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

APRIL 28, 2023

Moreover, with significant firms struggling through Q1, official government bodies are also decelerating Metaverse growth out of competition fears. The company faces increased competition from other VR and AR companies, such as Sony and Apple. Microsoft first announced its acquisition in 2022.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 8, 2024

Innovators like Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and Varjo have revolutionized the space, showing how flexible, versatile, and powerful mixed reality can be. Solutions like the Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro allow users to choose exactly what type of immersion they want for each use case.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Apple is having delays in the manufacturing of its XR headset. According to new ultra-reliable rumors (#sarcasm), the AR/VR headset that Apple is working on has a too complex design (whatever it means), so it will have production delays. It is an original approach, but I have to discover more details before saying my opinion about it.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2021

Bloomberg was first to report that Biden has plans this Wednesday to meet with the CEO’s from Apple, Microsoft and Amazon to… Read more. After over a year where the U.S. faced slews of cyberattacks hitting hospitals , banks , and just about everything else , President Joe Biden is turning to tech’s top players for some advice.

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InstaVR

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

But business impact has been substantial too — from Microsoft and Apple lowering financial projections to major conferences like Mobile World Congress and Facebook’s F8 being cancelled. . So it’s no surprise companies and governments can and are leveraging VR during the Coronavirus outbreak to better function.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

The state of society and our own self-governance is what’s most unknown. From 2016 to 2019, I helped Apple figure out whatever it might be doing by prototyping experiences and technologies from the future. A few months before Apple, I was invited to Facebook to interview for a position leading Facebook’s new AR program.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2024

However, as the adoption of these technologies grows, concerns about XR data governance and security are increasing. The Apple Vision Pro alone includes 23 different sensors. Many vendors , from Meta, to Microsoft, and Unity, offer these solutions. They’ll be experimenting with new physical sensors too.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2022

Over the last two years, metaverse technologies have matured due to investments from firms such as Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Epic Games, and many others. According to research from Emergen Research last year, the Metaverse was valued at $47.69 billion in 2020 and would reach $829 billion by 2028. The human interface layer. Closing thoughts.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 7, 2023

The metaverse has been pioneered largely by innovative start-ups, but there are concerns that the likes of Microsoft and Meta could trample over these firms due to their existing reach and scale. This technological shift also involves new forms of global governance.”

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This year was a busy one for the XR industry; following a lull in faith towards the start of the year, groups such as the OEP, Microsoft, and Meta worked to bring new life to the sector via substantial workplace XR solutions. The firm named the OEP’s digital twin one of the next “big things” in XR technology in 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Will a little startup be able to beat the big behemoths like Apple and Facebook? We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”. I think we’ll discover it in some months… (You can imagine my excitement in publishing this interview.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Innovative solutions like the Apple Vision Pro include numerous sensors, used to capture head, hand, and eye movements, as well as voice conversations. Spatial Computing Reveals Additional Data Ever since Apple introduced the Vision Pro , interest in spatial computing has increased.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This reflects actions taken at Google, Snap, Microsoft, and Apple over the last few months regarding their respective smart glass offerings. Such innovations include its partnerships with Microsoft and Zoom, digital twin and hyperrealistic avatar construction tools , and AI-powered Research SuperCluster facility, among others.

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Anand Tech

JULY 26, 2023

But Rapidus, a semiconductor consortium backed by the Japanese government and large conglomerates, plans to leapfrog several generations of nodes and start 2nm production in 2027. As demand from Japanese companies alone may not suffice, Rapidus is looking for orders from international corporations like Apple, Google, and Meta. "We

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

It has also launched similar projects for enterprise, consumer, and industrial devices with Microsoft. Currently, due to US government trade restrictions , Qualcomm cannot sell its 5G components to Huawei for its smartphone sales. Huawei outperformed Samsung, Apple, and Xiaomi in Q2 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

. ” Head of Experience Design, Atlantic Productions Aditi Rajagopal , noted their highlight as their direction of “an [XR] experience that brought a pioneering electric aircraft to life on Apple Vision Pro.” In Canada, the company partnered with Invest WindsorEssex and Nexstar Energy on a 3.5

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