VRScout

JANUARY 12, 2018

Learning to play the piano is getting an immersive upgrade with a new augmented reality (AR) piano training software called Music Everywhere. The app was the first Augmented Reality music learning platform to take first prize in Microsoft’s HoloLens Developer Contest , beating more than one-thousand submissions.

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ARPost

MAY 3, 2022

Get ready to see the future of augmented reality with the next generation of AR glasses. Dispelix and Avegant have teamed up to create an advanced optical solution for augmented reality viewing. These waveguides have been instrumental in bringing Magic Leap, Microsoft HoloLens, and other AR devices to the consumer market.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This week, PTC made a crucial stride towards the future of augmented reality frontline deployments with the debut of Vuforia Engine 11, the latest version of its SDK for developing custom immersive enterprise software for frontline working environments such as those in industrial and manufacturing industries.

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ARVR

MARCH 4, 2021

© Poly by Google Augmented reality (AR ) technology is a unique tool empowering restaurants, delivery services, and other vendors in the food service industry. A group of students from the University of Georgia also created ChopChop , an AR delivery app, using echoAR (and you can too!). © abadllah saad. © Ronen Horovitz.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 14, 2016

Microsoft have just launched a new HoloLens ‘Commercial Suite’ which packages the augmented reality visor as ready for business with numerous new features and benefits for business buyers. Your IT department can manage multiple HoloLens devices simultaneously using solutions like Microsoft InTune. Micro-USB 2.0

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AR Insider

AUGUST 2, 2021

Instagram product head Vishal Shah and Facebook Gaming’s Vivek Sharma and Jason Rubin will be leading the new group, which will report to Andrew Bosworth, head of Facebook Reality Labs. Meanwhile, Microsoft is focused on its “enterprise metaverse ,” said CEO Satya Nadella in the company’s earnings call on Tuesday.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 11, 2017

Microsoft owns the enterprise computing space. Today, the company demonstrated how its Windows Mixed Reality initiative could potentially be used in that massive market. During the keynote address of its annual Build conference, Microsoft invited members of the Cirque du Soleil team up on stage.

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ARPost

JUNE 15, 2021

They’re one of the most exciting companies in web-based augmented reality but their solutions are white label. We’re so excited to welcome Tom and 8th Wall to the IAB Augmented Reality Board.”. I’m really excited about the group that they’ve put together,” said Emrich. Carolina Herrera and Evolving E-Commerce.

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ARPost

JULY 4, 2022

As big tech is racing toward the development and adoption of extended reality, the debut of the metaverse is nigh. NVIDIA joined Meta , Epic Games, Khronos Group, Avataar , Microsoft, Unity, XR Association , and many other founding members to lead the development of interoperability standards to drive the growth of the metaverse.

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VRScout

MAY 17, 2018

It’s no secret an increasing number of businesses are turning to virtual and augmented reality for employee training. Volkswagen Group became one of the first major multinationals to announce they would train more than 10,000 employees in VR this year, including at Audi, SEAT, ŠKODA and VW.

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VRScout

MARCH 25, 2022

The latest Spectacles design was the first to include built-in AR (augmented reality) functionality, allowing the wearer to interact with existing Snapchat AR Lenses straight from the glasses in real-time. The glasses aren’t available for purchase at the moment.

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Road to VR

APRIL 18, 2017

One of the first in a line of Windows Holographic powered immersive devices, Lenovo’s first mixed reality headset will be here in time for US “back to school”, according to Lenovo’s North America VP of Consumer Products Mike Abary.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2020

Although it’s not an augmented reality system as such, the company seems to be making serious inroads to creating a truly wearable heads-up display (HUD), similar to Google Glass in function as opposed to an AR headset such as Microsoft’s HoloLens.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The award for Best Developer Tool was presented by Khronos Group President Neil Trevett to Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity (MRTK-Unity) by Microsoft. ?. This year, the Auggies ceremony also included a Halftime Show by XR improv group The Technodramatists. Best in Show Augmented Reality. Best Developer Tool.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2017

Here’s a visual tour of some of the first VR headsets to be shown adopting Microsoft’s new Windows Holographic platform. Microsoft’s Windows Holographic is the company’s immersive initiative built on foundations begun with their first foray into the augmented reality world with their HoloLens visor.

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VRScout

APRIL 9, 2019

During November of last year, it was reported that Microsoft would be entering a $479M contract with the United States military to supply the Army with 100,000 modified HoloLens headsets. According to CNBC, this modified version of the HoloLens 2 will be used on and off the battlefield. HoloLens 2 in the field. Image Credit: US Army.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 19, 2023

Microsoft is reportedly reducing the size of its HoloLens group. Microsoft is far from the only big tech company to make this move – this week Amazon started laying off 18000 people, Meta laid off more than 11000 in November, and Snap laid off 20% of its staff in September.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Inbar is the founder of AWE, but he’s also the founder of Super Ventures , an early-stage fund for augmented reality companies. The company has since teased hardware and a collaboration with Microsoft Mesh , so their AWE appearance could mean anything. How about a group of experts talking about what they know best?

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2017

The Australian Air Force and Saab Australia are trialing the Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality headset as the Australian military evolves into a “fifth-generation fighting force.” The post The Australian Air Force Is Now Testing the Microsoft HoloLens appeared first on VRScout.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Last month the United States Army conducted a two-day demonstration of its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) being used in tandem with its Stryker armored vehicles, offering everyone from the drivers to the passengers 360-degree situational awareness on the battlefield.

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AR Insider

JULY 1, 2020

Learn how industrial giant ABB is using Unity and augmented reality to transform field maintenance procedures into a completely paperless process. This multiplatform application completely digitizes the field operator experience with remote-enabled augmented reality technologies. Authors’ opinions are their own. .

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

percent year-on-year, with augmented reality (AR) peaking 94.1 The Dublin-based IT consultancy has outlined a Metaverse Continuum Group to facilitate digital transformations for businesses. Whether or not today’s workforces are prepared for VR is another question, unlike many platforms like Microsoft Teams or Zoom.

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VRScout

JULY 21, 2019

Recently, the DAVD development team worked alongside a group from the Johnson Space Center as part of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) exercise at the Aquarius Reef Base located in Key Largo, an underwater habitat used by NASA to train astronauts in conditions similar to that of space. Image Credit: United States Army.

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VRScout

MAY 9, 2020

Telepresence is another use case that Novartis is exploring through their partnership with Microsoft, using the Microsoft HoloLens. Image Credit: Microsoft Corp, Volve Car Group, LUCASFILM LTD. Doing it in virtual environments helped us to expedite training and medicine delivery to patients,” said Baran.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I’ve very limited time, but luckily this week has not been very relevant for the ecosystem, so I’m managing to write this newsletter anyway Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) AltspaceVR shuts down In one of the saddest moments of the latest years in VR, AltspaceVR has closed its doors.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

A group of cartoon-looking androids, buzzing with anticipation, enter the large assembly hall. Sophia Dominguez // SVRF (New York, NY) – the first search engine for immersive content for virtual reality and augmented reality. It settles in next to another bot by the stage.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Consisting of Markus Meister, Yang Liu, and USC postdoctoral scholar Noelle Stiles (PhD ’16), the team used the Microsoft HoloLens’s capability to create a digital mesh over a “scene” of the real-world. According to the World Health Organization , it is estimated that approximately 1.3 Image Credit: Caltech.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Microsoft just used their HoloLens for the first mixed reality Mannequin Challenge. Now the large corporation that is Microsoft is bringing us their own version of #MannequinChallenge but with their own unique twist. The merging of virtual objects and real life is what Microsoft calling their version of “mixed reality.”

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2024

” With the entrance of Apple Vision Pro, one such entity to follow suit is Stryker’s Mako , a robotic surgery group initially founded as a standalone company by Rony Abovitz, the founder and first CEO of AR unicorn Magic Leap. billion in 2013, or just around three years after Magic Leap was founded by Abovitz in stealth mode.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 15, 2025

According to him, the equipment is being provided by Teleray Group who [sic] also manufactured the gaskets for the Valve Index and HP G2 Omnicept. Considering that there are no other Valve-related headsets for which it is worth starting any manufacturing of facial interfaces (e.g.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This includes exploring the benefits of the augmented reality military. The US Army has also launched a joint project with Microsoft for its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headsets. Elsewhere, virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) tools are unveiling training opportunities for new recruits.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

Los Angeles, CA (April 12, 2018) – Experience next generation immersive technologies and explore “A New Reality” at VRLA, the leading virtual and augmented reality expo, May 4-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Special announcements from Intel, with Kumar Kaushik, GM, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality.

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VRScout

MAY 18, 2020

. “The use cases described by such a large and diverse group of creatives made a lot of sense and motivated a couple of friends and me to turn the prototype into a real application that anyone can use.” Those interested in copying and pasting reality can request access to the app here.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Key features of HoloPatient Remote according to GIGXR: Remote and/or socially distanced student groups connect with their instructor, who is wearing a Microsoft HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset, using their iOS or Android device. Collaborative learning among the group facilitates highly effective learning outcomes.

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ARPost

AUGUST 22, 2022

The announcement came just days after the company announced a collaboration making Blippbuilder WebAR compatible with Microsoft Teams. “By “In making Blippbuilder free, we invite the entire world to play, create, and share what they have built with Blippbuilder.” .

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GizModo VR

JUNE 22, 2022

Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Sony, and other tech giants have formed a group designed to ensure interoperability in the metaverse. Notably absent from this list of heavyweights is Apple, a company heavily rumored to be working on its own mixed reality products. Read more.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Perhaps the biggest company in the mixed reality landscape right now, Microsoft is paving the way to a future of incredible hybrid learning. According to Microsoft, implementing mixed reality into the training landscape leads to a reduction in training times of approximately 30%.

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