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Microsoft Patents Hot-Swappable Battery for AR Smart Glasses

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Microsoft has recently been awarded a patent to install hot-swappable battery functionality into a future pair of augmented reality (AR) smart glasses, reports revealed. According to MSPowerUser, Microsoft published the patents on 5 October, revealing a potentially strong competitor to current smart glass providers with its modular design.

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Big XR News from Meta, Deloitte, Snap, and Virtuleap

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Next year, Apple will debut the Vision Pro following years of hype, and Microsoft will also start rolling out its industrial Metaverse services. One of the significant changes is the removal of Android and iOS notifications, which effectively separates Meta’s head-mounted displays (HMDs) from messages on smartphones and other devices.

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Hands-on: Acer Windows Mixed Reality Dev Kit & Datascape

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One thing that I got more and more excited about as we got closer and closer to the Microsoft Build 2017 developers conference was finally learning about the new Acer Windows Mixed Reality head-mounted displays (HMD).

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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

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More than 4,000 people attended the event at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, and more than 3 million worldwide watched the keynote via Facebook Live. F8 2017 was held on April 18th and 19th 2017. Leading up to F8, I wrote a piece highlighting five key predictions about what we’d discover at the conference.

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Snapdragon AR2 to Empower AR Devices, Qualcomm Says

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The San Diego, California-based firm has become synonymous with delivering XR solutions capable of untethering head-mounted displays (HMDs) from PC. With it, experts can see what you see to guide professionals with step-by-step work instructions via a micro display similar to Google Glass or Vuzix.

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How Brain-Computer Interfaces Can Deliver On VR’s Promises

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Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. In the 1970’s scientists at the University of California popularized the term “brain-computer interface” or BCI , referring to a hardware and software system that uses brainwaves to control devices.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.04): Apple to launch its headset, Meta unveils Quest 3 and many games, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Hello everyone from Sunnyvale, California! More info Discover a Reconfigurable Mobile Head-Mounted Display This is the weirdest research project I’ve seen this week (thanks Ivan Aguilar for the tip). I’m just wondering how Microsoft is still supporting the project and if there will be a MRTK 4.

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