The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Or maybe “relaxed” is not the right word to use, considering the little drama on Microsoft’s headsets. Top news of the week (Image by HP) Microsoft officially drops support for its Mixed Reality headsets Microsoft has just released the infamous Windows 11, version 24H2 update. I think this speaks a lot.

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2021

Another way to view the AR cloud – framed in the terminology of today’s technology – is an architecture that makes the physical world clickable. Just as Google began indexing the web 20 years ago, the next evolution could be for someone to index the physical world in potentially more valuable ways. The AR Location Wars, Part I: Google.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Their first MR project used Google Tango and the Microsoft HoloLens to bring a rare digital tank from their game to a real-life exhibit at the Tank Museum at Bovington , UK. Apple ARKit, Google ARCore and Facebook Camera Effects could deliver more than 900 million installed base by the end of this year, jumping to nearly 3.5

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GizModo VR

JUNE 24, 2021

Today Microsoft announced the next big chapter for its ubiquitous operating system: Windows 11 is here, and while there’s some awkwardness to work out (specifically in the way Microsoft is handling Android app integration), Windows 11 feels like the big facelift Microsoft really needed. Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today Microsoft announced the first true Chromebook competitor we’ve seen with the $250 Surface Laptop SE, a cheap Windows 11 laptop with entry-level specs. It’s perfect for students, and it’s exactly the kind of machine Google and Chrome OS device makers have been churning out for years. Read more.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2018

The Decentralized Identity Foundation formed in May 2017 with a number of blockchain companies and bigger companies like Microsoft who got together to open source their blockchain identity IP in order to create a number of decentralized identity open standards. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

If this partnership is exclusive, Meta has just got a huge edge over its competitors like Samsung or Google. IVAS is the modified HoloLens that Microsoft is experimenting with the US Army and thanks to this partnership it could show better and more useful data to its soldiers.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 17, 2022

Microsoft is responsible for bringing many of us into the digital realm, introducing generations of consumers to the PC. Beyond Windows, Microsoft and its brand Xbox have been a driving force behind the growth of gaming, Office… Read more. Even today, the Windows operating system is used by more than a billion people worldwide.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

More info (Logitech MX Ink now available) More info (My hands-on with the device) The end of HoloLens 2 Microsoft has officially announced the end-of-life of the Microsoft HoloLens 2: the company is now selling the last stock and will slowly discontinue the headset. Big kudos to the team and good luck for the future!

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ARVR

MARCH 22, 2022

is an architecture or index that makes the physical world clickable. Google could be the knowledge layer, Facebook could be the social layer, Microsoft the enterprise productivity layer, and Amazon the commerce layer. Another way to view the AR cloud?—?framed framed in today’s technology?—?is

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In the meanwhile, its adoption is getting better, too: the popular Unity game engine promises the first implementations of OpenXR for the end of the year with a complete implementation coming in 2021, and Microsoft has already completely switched to an OpenXR runtime. More info (Using Google Translate). Boost Clock (GHz) 2.25

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

You’d really like to see at least two platforms. […] And so it’s been a bit disappointing to see Microsoft’s place in VR. There was a while where I was really bullish on Microsoft. And I was kind of like… Oculus is [like] iOS, creating a closed platform on its own hardware. ” .

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

We already know Microsoft is launching Windows 11 on Oct. Microsoft is having what many have pegged as a Surface hardware event on Sept. 5, but what would a new operating system be without new hardware to showcase it? 22 at 8 a.m. It’s all virtual, of course, and there’s a link available if you want to… Read more.

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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. It will also enable users to acquire information about their environment using technologies such as Google Glass or Meta Platform’s Project Aria. The infrastructure layer.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

If you’ve been holding out for a new Chromebook made by Google, you’ll have to keep waiting. A Chromebook team member just indicated there is no updated Pixelbook planned for 2022. Read more.

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Anand Tech

MAY 7, 2024

The ASUS listing, which has now since been deleted, but as of writing is still available through Google's cache, highlights a model that is already in existence, the VivoBook S 16 OLED (M5606), but is listed with an unknown AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 170 processor. This first came to our attention via a post on Twitter by user @harukaze5719.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” Google is accomplishing this with its visual databases such as Street View. But it’s not alone. continuing here with Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Doing a Google search, I found out that since Microsoft opensourced the C# compiler (called Roslyn) , many things have been made with it. file, that points also to a 1-hour long video where I comment in detail about the architecture of the code, the problems I had, and how I solved them.

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ARVR

MARCH 24, 2021

is an architecture that makes the physical world clickable. Just as Google began indexing the web 20 years ago, the next evolution could be for someone to index the physical world in potentially more valuable ways. In fact, Google is a natural candidate to build this physical-world index. And it’s already started.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JANUARY 31, 2024

The event sees leading XR firms such as Meta, Google, and Magic Leap actively participating in many of the event’s esteemed keynotes and exhibition spaces. Yesterday, Google and Mojo Vision representatives introduced the event, kicking off the monumental event with an opening keynote. VR|MR 2024 There are many vendors at SPIE.AR|VR|MR

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

Architecture students from Egypt and the United States meeting in Second Life. Educating K-12 children is an entirely different proposition, one that uses different tools, such as Google Expeditions or Nearpod VR. Image courtesy Google Expeditions.). This is what Microsoft did in the 1980s with office automation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

People can also view YouTube 360 videos, Google Street View, as well as the enterprise’s bespoke 360 web browser. This platform uses Microsoft Teams for calls, Microsoft Office apps like Powerpoint, Miro, Alleo, Power BI, and many others.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For example, a user could point a camera at areas of their city to see what it looked like ten years ago from an archive of Google Maps. By using these architectural features in conjunction with Apple Maps Look Around data, a user’s location can be better approximated for location anchors. Earlier this year, ARCore v.1.31.0

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

for prototyping or architecture), I advise you to give a look to the XR-1. The Quest has dominated the searches on Google and it has gone sold out quite soon, and people that really wanted to buy it had to buy it from some online resellers that offered it at higher prices. The target is enterprise companies.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. InsiteVR’s latest solution, called Resolve, lets AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) professionals explore 3D models of environments with other people on the Oculus Quest.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 13, 2021

Jump to: Tech | Gaming | Home | Lifestyle | Media Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Android tablet will soon get good, or at least it seems like Google is hoping it will with Android 12L. This new version of Android is designed for tablet-sized screens and anything above 600dp, and is available for developers today. Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Internet technology giants such as Google, AWS, and Microsoft are also making their own investments into the “Edge” space. A wide number of vendors have already begun stepping into the Edge space, including XR hardware creators like Varjo, and computing leaders like Dell and HPE.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Google is bringing Android games from Google Play to Windows laptops, PCs, and tablets. Mobile gamers who hate being tied to their smartphones just got an early holiday present. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 2, 2021

Google will start imposing a change that would clamp down on the Android apps distributed through the Play Store. This week, the company announced that beginning in August, developers will have to publish apps as a proprietary Android App Bundle rather than the standard APK publishing format. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 4, 2021

More than six years after the release of Windows 10, Microsoft is releasing the next big chapter in its ubiquitous OS on Oct. A recent survey suggests that more than 60% of people aren’t even aware that Windows 11 is coming out, which indicates there probably won’t be a mad rush to upgrade. Read more.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

All of which matches up with the thought that Apple is planning a small, lightweight product—one that lives up to the term “wearable” by being more like smart glasses instead of an unwieldy Microsoft HoloLens. “But the StarBoard stuff presents exactly that: a Google Cardboard sort of functionality for iPhones.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 25, 2021

When Microsoft introduced Windows 11 this week, it also made a fanfare of bringing Android apps to the OS through the Amazon Appstore. It’s an exciting feature both for Windows diehards looking for more ways to tinker and for casual users who might want the added utility of an Android app. But the initial announcement … Read more.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

With Qualcomm’s industry-leading Snapdragon Spaces platform , Xiaomi can also develop programmes on OpenXR and Microsoft’s MRTK toolkit. Both companies and Microsoft, Google, Snap, Amazon, and many other US tech firms launched a massive wave of workforce layoffs in recent months to streamline operations.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

Named for David Harold Blackwell — a University of California, Berkeley mathematician specializing in game theory and statistics, and the first Black scholar inducted into the National Academy of Sciences — the new architecture succeeds the NVIDIA Hopper architecture, launched two years ago. Blackwell delivers 2.5x

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He's designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer. Austin: Thank you for having me, excited to be here.

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