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VRScout
DECEMBER 1, 2018
Microsoft lands $479M contract to put the MR headsets into the hands of soldiers in active combat zones. Army thanks to a huge $479 million contract between the legendary military branch and Microsoft. Unfortunately, the device never caught on the way Microsoft had hoped for with roughly 50,000 initial sales worldwide.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 24, 2019
Microsoft today revealed HoloLens 2 at MWC 2019 in Barcelona. For comparison, contemporary VR headsets like Vive Pro are around 16 PPD. Image courtesy Microsoft. HoloLens 2 also brings hand-tracking which goes much further than the coarse gesture control in the original headset. Image courtesy Microsoft.
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VRScout
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
The Royal Navy is using AR for a futuristic UI that will promote more efficient ship wide communications. The system will also enhance the AR experience through artificial intelligence. Using AR to help connect all the pieces together in an easy-to-navigate digital layout has the ability to make operations much more efficient.
ARPost
MAY 29, 2020
There were also huge announcements from Unity, HP, Microsoft, and others. For example, how does someone with Parkinson’s navigate gesture controls? HP and Microsoft. Meanwhile, Joanna Popper and John Ludwig of HP, and Mark Bolas of Microsoft announced the HP Reverb Gen 2 , which was developed in collaboration with Valve.
ARPost
JULY 1, 2020
While it lacked the pizzazz of an AltSpace event, Popper again presented the Reverb G2 at the VR/AR Global Summit the following week. Other webinar speakers were Mimbus CEO Laurent Da Dalto, Rainfall ’s AR/VR Director Keith Mellingen, and the Institute for Creative Technologies Director of Medical Virtual Reality Albert “Skip” Rizzo.
ARPost
JANUARY 13, 2020
Here, we’ll be taking a look at the AR and MR headsets and glasses that caught our attention in 2019 and that we’ll be keeping an eye on going into 2020. Because MR is more complex than AR, it requires a lot of computing power. Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 is one of the most advanced MR headsets on the market.
ARPost
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Futurologists had predicted and filmmakers embodied on the screen that mankind would forget any third-party apps and devices alien to human physiology even before the first concepts of AR and VR appeared. There is a big difference between VR-helmets (or AR-glasses) with controllers and ones that can be controlled by hand gestures.
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