The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

The HoloLens 2 is considered the best augmented reality headset in the market. For instance, in the box I’ve found a cleaning cloth for an Oculus device… and I don’t think it actually comes with a Microsoft HoloLens! As you can see, augmentations cover more or less all the surface of the lenses.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

For larger companies looking to connect their entire team with HoloLens 2 headsets, Microsoft is offering a package that includes Dynamic 365 Remote Assist on each MR headset at the cost of $125 per user – per month. If you’re a developer working on your own, Microsoft offers the HoloLens 2 Development Edition.

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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: Volvo partners with Varjo on a in-vehicle mixed reality overlay. Image Credit: Microsoft Corp, Volve Car Group, LUCASFILM LTD.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

More info Anduril takes over the IVAS project Anduril , the defense technology company founded by Palmer Luckey, has taken over the IVAS project, which was previously managed by Microsoft. Microsoft will still provide the Azure cloud, but all the hardware and software should be provided by Luckeys startup.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

nReal is a Chinese augmented reality company that is developing an augmented reality glass that is cheap, light and fashionable. For instance, the design of the temple tip was absolutely wrong for the shape of my head and my ear, so my ears had to stay folded most of the time. What is nReal?

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VRScout

AUGUST 27, 2019

These additions included 3D animated models accessible directly through Google Search, the ability to scan restaurant menus for additional information on recommended dishes, as well as automatic tip calculations. Hanging out with @VRDesignGuy translating all the things!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

This week I have been pretty busy working on our mixed reality fitness game that is very close to launch and in preparing some amazing articles for next week (I will publish a review of the Valve Index and a super-amazing interview to Jeri Ellsworth, the creator of TiltFive augmented reality glasses!), Image by Ray-Ban).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. Looking back at augmented reality in 2021. Thanks VR Fitness Mag for the tip). The most bullish of them is, of course, Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. This means that cloud rendering could become a reality for always more headsets, and using always more cloud services. CloudXR SDK, NVIDIA’s service to offer cloud rendering, will update to v2.1.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. Valve could provide some audio-visual improvements, while Microsoft its WMR platform, with inside-out tracking of controllers. HP announces the Reverb G2.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and many others started to reestablish the Metaverse and XR as serious business tools following a lacklustre adoption rate from consumer markets. Does the spatial computing uptrend mark the initial tipping point for widespread XR adoption in enterprises? These are all different forms of spatial computing.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 29, 2024

These glasses have outperformed the sales of Ray-Ban’s first-generation smart glasses, ‘Ray-Ban Stories’ This potential deal could grant Meta more control over EssilorLuxottica’s smart glasses division and strengthen its position in the competitive market against tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

I love how they are jumping on the hype with humor, more companies should do that (Thanks Tom Ffiske for this tip) Decentralized technologies are great, but be careful that are scams, bots, and hackers also operating in this world. Microsoft IVAS program is not doing great. Microsoft IVAS program is not doing great. Other news.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week, was loaded with augmented reality smartglasses, which layer digital animations and information on top of the real world. Mainstream venture capitalists pumped up startups in virtual and augmented reality in the third quarter, with a record $2.3 Ellsworth: Right.

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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. Thanks Davy Demeyer for the tip). Other relevant news. Image from Khronos Group). SteamVR now supports OpenXR. And these people use AR around 30 times per day.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This week we had tons of news about new upcoming augmented reality glasses and smartglasses: Oppo has revealed the second iteration of its augmented reality glasses. OpenBCI has just teased on Twitter Galea XR, described as “a hardware and software platform that merges next-generation biometrics with mixed reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

And these experiments about wireless headsets make us think that Valve is investigating the possibility of making the Index wireless (or even better, standalone), a feature that many users have asked for. (Thanks Ilja Z for the tip!). Image by Microsoft). Nreal Light is on sale in Germany. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Furthermore, Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, will be connected with Omniverse Project Mellon has been unveiled. It is a lightweight Python package capable of harnessing the heavyweight power of speech AI (NVIDIA Riva) and large language models (LLMs) to simplify user interactions in immersive environments.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This is a huge sign of commitment towards mixed reality. That’s why we rejoiced when Apple launched its headset: while Google and Microsoft can discard new technologies pretty easily, Apple is slower at deciding to take a step, but when it makes it, it commits to it. It was a sort of color picker tool of Photoshop but in real life.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

In my opinion, Magic Leap 2 is a superior device to HoloLens 2 (see my hands-on here ), so I think that with these prices, it can have good success in the enterprise market, starting to gain shares with regard to Microsoft. A very subtle nerd joke about all the mess made by the Unity CEO this week (Thanks Mati for the tip!).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

Thanks Ivan Aguilar for this tip!) More info News worth a mention (Image by Microsoft) Xbox executives are still not interested in XR Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty has reiterated the fact that Xbox is not interested in implementing VR because it’s too niche.

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Slashgear

JUNE 15, 2018

Inside the Microsoft HoloLens 2 augmented/mixed-reality headset is tipped the most major appearance of Qualcomm’s own XR1 VR chip.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Once computers understand space, we can use these informed computers to edit our real world by placing digital objects and information in it and view this all through a transparent digital screen like smart glasses or even our smartphone: this is Augmented Reality or AR. Augmented Reality ads are not new. Source: Ikea.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The video shows a pretty clunky device, and the website seems made in Microsoft Word… but this does not mean that the underline technology can’t be interesting.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

15 Experts weigh in on why we’re reaching a tipping point in spatial computing. Unity’s Latest Trends Report Declares 2020 will be a Breakthrough Year for XR. This looks to be the year where we move beyond tentative experimentation into scalable deployment of immersive tech in the workplace.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

October was such an important month for the virtual reality and augmented reality industry. It was announcements and product launches galore with news coming from key players like Oculus, Sony, Microsoft and Google dominating the headlines almost every week. So what’s next? and many places worldwide. and Canada.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. Two creative XR things worth watching.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 11, 2025

Even augmented reality solutions can empower new team members to learn and receive feedback from subject matter experts when theyre on the job while keeping their hands free for work. The firm collaborated with Microsoft to implement mixed reality (MR) solutions using HoloLens 2 headsets.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2024

What is set is the present day, and this week shows the stepping stones towards XR’s tipping point are very much being paved. Microsoft, Meta Quest Usher in New Spatial Productivity Tools This week, a significant partnership was announced : Microsoft Mixed Reality Link is now officially in an open-release model.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

Imagine knowing the answer to the question on the tip of your brain the moment you touch your phone. “Because augmented reality smart glasses represent the next transformational shift in personal computing. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Youtuber Brad Lynch of the channel “Sadly It’s Bradley” has discovered, thanks to “a tip”, some references to a device codenamed “Deckard” inside some SteamVR firmware files. Microsoft is going to release a database of synthetic faces. Other relevant news. Image by IGN). Valve is working on a standalone VR headset codenamed “Deckard”.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

you should consider upgrading to this new one. (Thanks Rob Cole for the tip!). Microsoft finally enables Research Mode on HoloLens 2. Yes, the price is higher than the cheap Leap Motion 1, but this is also a far better device. If you are experimenting with Leap Motion devices (Noah Zerkin, I’m talking with you!) News worth a mention.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 14, 2016

This Concept Shows What Pokemon GO Might Be Like on the HoloLens Pokemon GO is on the tip of everyone’s tongues. But unfortunately, you won’t often hear people get particularly excited for its use of augmented reality technology for anything other than taking funny pictures.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? ” The tools that are popping up are really democratizing virtual and augmented reality creation, and I think that’s what’s really exciting.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? ” The tools that are popping up are really democratizing virtual and augmented reality creation, and I think that’s what’s really exciting.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. Microsoft has done well in the mixed reality space as it relates to enterprise adoption. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How VR could bring transhumanism to the masses 2. ExpiCulture?—?Developing Developing an Original World-Traveling VR Experience 4.

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CraneMorley

JANUARY 3, 2019

2019 looks like the year that virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality go mainstream as learning and on the job performance tools. Virtual Reality. Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality (AR) will follow suit for training on headsets and mobile devices. Mixed Reality.

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