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Microsoft Now Hosts Free HoloLens Demos Across US & Canada

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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. The post Microsoft Now Hosts Free HoloLens Demos Across US & Canada appeared first on Road to VR. Connecticut.

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Big News from Altspace VR, Apple, Disney, Lloyd’s, and the US Justice Department

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Recently, Microsoft entered an extended partnership with OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, to expand the tech solution to business clients. Recently, Microsoft and Amazon cut back roughly 10,000 employees, and Meta dismissed approximately 11,000 people. AI and ChatGPT for enterprise is a growing tech topic.

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Akonia Uses Holography To Create Transparent Augmented Reality Display

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Akonia Holographics , a startup in Longmont, Colorado, spent years trying to make holographic data storage work. To create this eyepiece, multiple approaches have been taken by companies like Lumus (louvered mirrors), Microsoft (surface gratings), ODG (tilted surfaces), Sony (thin holograms), and others.

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Are Apple’s AR Glasses Hiding in Plain Sight?

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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. “It’s more than Microsoft can be said to be doing.”

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ISC 2017 is over, what did you miss?

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After all, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft – all use liquid cooled data centers. All in all, a good warm up for the SC 2017, which will be held later this year in Denver, Colorado. The post ISC 2017 is over, what did you miss? appeared first on VR World.

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The Top Five Web3 Trends In 2023

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The metaverse is a hot trend just about everywhere right now, with everyone from Facebook to Microsoft pulling together their ideas for the “next level” of the internet. Also this year, Colorado became the first state to officially accept cryptocurrency as payment for taxes and state fees. The decentralized metaverse.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

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Holographic waveguide optics have seen several recent entries into their ranks: TruLife Optics and WaveOptics, both of the UK, and most recently Akonia Holographics of Colorado. DigiLens refined this technique almost a decade ago creating avionic HUD systems for the U.S.