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Official VR Support Heading To ‘Microsoft Flight Sim’ This December

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This past July Microsoft confirmed that Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 , the latest iteration of the companies legendary flight sim experience, would be receiving official VR support shortly after launch. Now it appears as though Microsoft is shifting its plans to include all PC VR headsets. Image Credit: Microsoft.

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Microsoft Now Hosts Free HoloLens Demos Across US & Canada

Road to VR

Microsoft Stores across the US and Canada are now hosting free HoloLens demos, so you can finally see what the hubbub is all about. Here’s the full list of the participating Microsoft Stores: UNITED STATES. Atlanta, Lenox Square Mall. Atlanta, Perimeter Mall. Chandler, Chandler Fashion Center.

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Honda Mixed Reality Race Pits Pro Driver Against Pro YouTuber

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Partnering with Microsoft Turn 10 Studios, Honda’s R vs R competition pit an actual professional driver against a professional YouTube gamer in a head-to-head mixed reality race unlike anything we’ve seen before. The only difference is that while Graham sat in an actual Type R on an actual racetrack, Jeakins sat in a simulator.

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The HoloLens Application that Wants to Save eCommerce Retailers Millions

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Students from Georgia Tech are working with Microsoft and Walmart to increase efficiency in warehouses using Mixed Reality. Much has been made of the use of robots to increase efficiency in warehouses —with web retailers such as Amazon announcing significant investment in that area.

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Physicality & Spectatorship in ‘Project Arena’ Could Blur the Line Between E-sport and Actual Sport

Road to VR

At the time the prototype used a VR headset combined with a Microsoft Kinect for tracking. This is only starting to become practical through improved consumer tracking technology. A prototype of Project Arena shown last year was a very different beast. “[Improved input] has changed the concept in some ways,” Kraver explained.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.09): New Half-Life: Alyx videos and details, coronavirus makes events go virtual and much more!

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The event should have been hosted in Atlanta, with a little VR spinoff, but now that real event has been canceled, the whole event will be in VR. There will be various iterations of these prototypes and this research will be very important for Microsoft also for the design of the next generation of HoloLens.

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Augmenting Enterprise Productivity, with Altoura’s Jamie Fleming and Bharat Ahluwalia

XR for Business Podcast

We do a lot of work with Microsoft in helping serve their customers across a variety of use cases. And we were in Atlanta talking to a group of Sprint-- the different leaders within Sprint. With Sprint, I'll just give you kind of a quick introduction to how that project came into being, which was was really interesting.