VRScout
MARCH 25, 2022
Unlike existing AR headsets such as the Magic Leap 2 or Microsoft HoloLens, the Spectacles feature a discrete, light-weight design more akin to glasses than a headset. Previous creators used the technology to anchor their AR creations to famous structures like the Gateway of India and the Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt.
ARPost
DECEMBER 31, 2020
From the introduction, Pesce moves onto a history of computing and user interface beginning – where else – with Classical-Age Egypt. Pesce identifies these technologies as Microsoft Kinect, Keyhole (a forerunner of Google Maps), and the smartphone by way of Google Cardboard. The (Long) History of Augmented Reality.
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Hypergrid Business
AUGUST 21, 2017
Architecture students from Egypt and the United States meeting in Second Life. This is what Microsoft did in the 1980s with office automation. Image courtesy Jon Brouchoud.). Educators are using virtual worlds, but not in the way they had used them in the past, and not in the same numbers.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 29, 2019
By the summer of 2018, we were ready to unveil our work to the general public through the stores of Apple, Microsoft, Oculus, and Vive. And most important of all–and a great credit to our talented programmer and CEO Nathanael Tavares– we have not had a single bug report from the stores of Apple, Microsoft, Oculus, or Steam.
XR for Business Podcast
MAY 13, 2019
Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation. But I think the companies that Microsoft included in the survey were those large companies that have innovation offices. That is its most powerful use. Alan: That’s very important.
XR for Business Podcast
MAY 13, 2019
Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation. But I think the companies that Microsoft included in the survey were those large companies that have innovation offices. That is its most powerful use. Alan: That’s very important.
XR for Business Podcast
JULY 24, 2019
Alan: The whole idea of being able to take field trips really far -- going to the pyramids in Egypt -- that's not really something that most schools (or any schools), you know, "let's get a flight and fly halfway around the world to go see something." That type in a VR experience would be real exciting. That was a game-changer.
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