Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Earlier this year , I wrote about how Microsoft and other companies have pulled back on their VR and AR plans. But, other than giving a presentation at the OpenSim Community Conference in December , I can’t remember the last time I went in-world for a meeting. It’s all Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, and occasionally Microsoft Teams.

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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. Who knows…. More info (nReal teases new headset) More info (nReal changes name).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. What to Expect from Microsoft. Also, we know Microsoft is partnering with several manufacturers on VR headsets of its own, so we may learn more about some of those as well. Robo Recall.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 13, 2018

Turing is NVIDIA’s most important innovation in computer graphics in more than a decade,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, speaking at the SIGGRAPH 2018 conference. Image courtesy NVIDIA. Based on USB-C, VirtualLink provides high data bandwidth and power in a single small connector.

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HoloLens

JUNE 3, 2019

Native support for Unreal Engine 4 has arrived for the HoloLens 2 via early access on GitHub (login required). A major software tool first promised during the reveal of the HoloLens 2 earlier this year is finally available.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Epic Games, Unity Technologies and Microsoft’s Game Stack team have all issued statements announcing their withdrawals from March’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2020. . Over on Unreal Engine’s Twitter account , the company said: “Here at Epic we were excited about participating in GDC 2020.

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Upload VR

MAY 17, 2024

Aided by the UEVR mod, the ceaseless work of Team Beef and the formal announcement of Flat2VR Studios, an assortment of high-selling Unreal Engine games are basically seeing robust VR support turned on inside the titles many people already own. The biggest trend in VR gaming of 2024, though, is the blurrying line between flat content and VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 8, 2017

Essentially, since fans and individuals without press passes can’t typically gain access to the press conferences running from Saturday-Monday, this event serves as a way to get a similar experience in front of a live stage with many of the industry’s most respected and successful luminaries.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As the Creativity Conference kicks off its first day of speakers, many esteemed experts have begun sharing their perspectives on creativity and how it applies to their respective fields. XR Today: What are your thoughts on the Creativity Conference? I’m looking forward to taking part as a speaker at the upcoming online conference.

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Peter Graham

JULY 29, 2019

spec during the Game Developer Conference (GDC) 2019, gathering feedback from the XR community to improve the OpenXR input subsystem, game engine editor support, and loader. Unreal Engine led the way with support for the OpenXR 0.9 Now is the time for software developers to start putting OpenXR to work.”

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HoloLens

MAY 6, 2019

On Monday, the Microsoft Build conference kicked off, showcasing a series of demos that went off without a hitch — except for one big one. At the start of the show, the company was meant to show off the capabilities of the HoloLens 2 by highlighting a look at the historic Apollo 11 mission as an augmented reality story.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

I’ve not been there, but as always, I have read tons of materials, so that to provide you a satisfying summary of the most important news from that conference (but this time I promise you I won’t write as much as for the Oculus Connect 5 !). This is for instance something that Microsoft lacks completely. Avatar Chat.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

But, in the early days of this industry, it is the developer conferences, the places where creators come together to share knowledge and reveal breakthroughs, that are the really exciting events to cover. There’s no better time of the year to do that than at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). Experiments in Social VR.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 19, 2023

Apple’s upcoming MR headset is expected to be a high-end device that will compete with headsets from Meta and Microsoft. However, in recent years, Epic Games has dramatically pushed the Unreal Engine as a tool for immersive content creation and distribution, giving the shared parties’ argument far more credence.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), Here you are my flower for you! Image by OceanX).

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VRWorld

MAY 10, 2017

While GPU Technology Conference is focused on the leading edge research, the company isn’t slowing down in their build up of the GeForce family. Improved stability and reliability of GeForce Experience overlay – also addresses bugs associated with Mass Effect: Andromeda and Microsoft Outlook.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We started the year strong, receiving the Lumiere Technology Award in January, alongside companies like Disney and Microsoft. Our team took over the Ready Player One livestream on Twitch at the 2018 South by Southwest Conference. At HaptX, our team is celebrating a milestone-filled 2018. We even turned VR skeptics into evangelists.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Case in point is Microsoft’s HoloLens, where a development kit will set you back for $3000. Most importantly, the SDK comes with support for Unity Engine and Unreal Engine – you can build and test your own application almost immediately. Unlike the VR, where you can purchase an Open Source VR Hacker 1.4

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

HP and Microsoft, they’re running huge departments in this, just because they were early and learned how to do it. No offence to Microsoft, but we’re not living in Windows anymore. There is a web conference style transformation going on, where you can configure and sell a car without the car.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

HP and Microsoft, they’re running huge departments in this, just because they were early and learned how to do it. No offence to Microsoft, but we’re not living in Windows anymore. There is a web conference style transformation going on, where you can configure and sell a car without the car. ” John: [laughs].

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR).

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

At the first AWE conference back then, I think there was 300 people in total. Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps. I kind of jumped in expecting it to be happening pretty soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

At the first AWE conference back then, I think there was 300 people in total. Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps. I kind of jumped in expecting it to be happening pretty soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He’s formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. Today we have Niko Eiden, CEO of Varjo.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He’s formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. Today we have Niko Eiden, CEO of Varjo.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

HP and Microsoft, they're running huge departments in this, just because they were early and learned how to do it. No offence to Microsoft, but we're not living in Windows anymore. There is a web conference style transformation going on, where you can configure and sell a car without the car. We do projects on the Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

At the first AWE conference back then, I think there was 300 people in total. Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps. I kind of jumped in expecting it to be happening pretty soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He's formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. Today we have Niko Eiden, CEO of Varjo.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. 9- Eddie Avil. 14- Kai Liang. 18- Nina Salomons. 25- Pankaj Raut.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. More People Exposed to more VR Applications in More Places Trends Just a few years ago, the biggest VR-centric conference of the year had 500 attendees. Microsoft Hololens kits are shipping to developers, but are not priced for consumers yet.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang. This year, I’m just watching the conference from home The conference has been interesting, and it has been the usual mix of technology and politics. Some XR fun. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

I’ve got to try this thing called Vasco, which is a scent machine that mounts to the bottom of your VR headset that you can program — so, you program in Unity or Unreal. We’re not tied to Microsoft. I reached out, grab a cup of coffee. I smelled it, smelled like coffee. We’re not tied to Magic Leap.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

I’ve got to try this thing called Vasco, which is a scent machine that mounts to the bottom of your VR headset that you can program — so, you program in Unity or Unreal. We’re not tied to Microsoft. I reached out, grab a cup of coffee. I smelled it, smelled like coffee. We’re not tied to Magic Leap.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

I've got to try this thing called Vasco, which is a scent machine that mounts to the bottom of your VR headset that you can program -- so, you program in Unity or Unreal. We're not tied to Microsoft. I jumped back. I reached out, grab a cup of coffee. I smelled it, smelled like coffee. We're not tied to Magic Leap.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 4, 2017

Game-streaming service OnLive has come and gone, and Microsoft over-hyped the effect its Azure platform would have on Xbox One games, but that’s not stopping one company from using the cloud to unlock the power of its tools. Gaming and the fabled power of the cloud has had a checkered history.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4. Thanks to RTX, that is supported by Direct X’s Ray Tracing API DXR, that have been announced by Microsoft in the same days, we can have real-time photorealistic renderings. Header image by GDC Conference). And that’s all for today!

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