Road to VR

MAY 11, 2017

At today’s Microsoft Build 2017 presentation, creators at Cirque du Soleil demonstrated a custom creative toolset on stage using HoloLens technology. While brief, this showed seamless collaboration between AR and VR users, and is representative of why Microsoft likes to lump both types of device into the “Mixed Reality” category.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 2, 2021

Meanwhile, Microsoft is focused on its “enterprise metaverse ,” said CEO Satya Nadella in the company’s earnings call on Tuesday. “At FRL has acquired half a dozen VR content companies in the past eighteen months, and there are some impressive social VR efforts that might make tempting targets.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In an era where Sony appears to have a significant lead in console sales already, and with PSVR sharpening the system’s competitive edge, pressure is mounting for Microsoft to figure out its Xbox VR strategy. Pressure is mounting Microsoft to figure out how its VR plans pan out on Xbox. Moving the Needle. Photo by Road to VR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

HTC hosts a list of stores across the US and Europe where you can try the Vive for free. In the US, stores like Microsoft, Gamestop, and Micro Center host Vive setups offering public demos, while you can find the system in Europe in locations like Currys PC World, GAME, and Scan Computers. Find an HTC Vive Demo Location.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Games not on the Oculus Store like Half-Life: Alyx (2019), No Man’s Sky (2016) , and Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) are all playable on Rift S through Steam. Still, at $300 it makes Rift S one of the cheapest modern PC VR headsets out there.

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ARPost

JULY 1, 2020

Don’t worry – preorders open across Europe and Asia on July 6. Both Valve and Microsoft collaborated with HP on the headset. While it lacked the pizzazz of an AltSpace event, Popper again presented the Reverb G2 at the VR/AR Global Summit the following week. The actual shipment is expected to begin this autumn.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Meta is trying to find a compromise with the EU, but if it doesn’t happen, it is threatening to leave its business in Europe, shutting down Facebook and Instagram in the whole European Union. Especially if it happens by hiring 10,000 people in Europe, so that it can apply stronger pressures on the EU about its data privacy rules.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Microsoft Flight Simulator releases VR patch. Microsoft Flight Simulator is now compatible with VR headsets : not only the HP Reverb G2 as initially teased but all the headsets that are compatible with OpenXR , so basically all the most famous devices. Header image by Microsoft). Top news of the week. Image by HP).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 24, 2017

According to the company, the seed investment comes from the Europe-based IIDF venture capital fund and will be used to accelerate the release of its “anti-latency tracker” which goes by the name ALT. A startup named Antilatency with a positional tracking solution that recently impressed us has raised $2.1

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

By the way, today I travel to Lisbon to attend AWE Europe, where I will be the moderator of a panel about sustainability in XR and Web3. Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. If you are going, too, let me know and maybe we will be able to meet! Top news of the week. Image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

UPDATE (2021.10.19): Road To VR also suggests that this hiring can be used to have a strong voice on regulations happening in Europe. When Microsoft won a $22B dollars contract with the US Army to develop a special version of HoloLens that could increase the “lethality” of troops, the news made strides worldwide.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 13, 2018

When I tried Microsoft Remote Assist with the HoloLens back in May at Microsoft Build I was able to “repair” a complex electrical panel in a matter of minutes. The competition in that space is growing fast to keep up with this demand, and not just in Europe and the U.S. efficiencies.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

But it’s also success here in Europe. Just to give you an idea, in 60% of the Ray-Ban stores in Europe, in EMEA, Ray-Ban Meta is the best-seller in those stores. Notice that he’s not talking about the US, which is more advanced than Europe on the technology side. I mean, we, it’s an overall success story that we see.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This week, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Taqtile, a leader in AR instructional solutions, is showcasing its now deepened support of Microsoft services to boost the usability of its immersive solution in demanding industrial environments.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Pico launches Neo 3 Link in Europe. More info (Pico Neo 3 Link now available in Europe) More info (Pico Neo 3 Link launched at Laval Virtual). The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”. Microsoft Build is one of the most important yearly events organized by Microsoft. Other relevant news.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The European Parliament has called for EU lawmakers to institute a ban on law enforcement’s use of facial recognition, as well as other surveillance tools commonly used in the course of algorithm-driven predictive policing. Read more.

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VRScout

APRIL 18, 2019

Microsoft HoloLens 2 patent. The highest number of VR and AR patents have been filed in the United States, followed by China and Europe. Microsoft, Intel, and Sony are the three strongest VR and AR-related patent owners. Image Credit: The United States Patent and Trademark Office. WHAT IS A PATENT?

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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. I’ll hug you all in autumn. and there is always more interest in virtual gatherings.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 15, 2018

The University of Hull has launched an accelerator dedicated to developing Mixed Reality tech for the Microsoft HoloLens. The University of Hull’s Mixed Reality accelerator was recently launched with the remit of promoting collaboration between industry and academia to develop commercial applications for Microsoft HoloLens.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 14, 2017

This year’s VR World Congress (VRWC) event wants to bring some of that money to Europe, however. The wider VRWC show, meanwhile, runs from 11th – 14th and sees speakers from Microsoft, Google, and Oculus Story Studio. On display at the exhibition will be the Microsoft HoloLens, Ultrahaptics, and more.

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

There are two premium price tiers with additional affordances, but there is also a free model with an easy sign-in using a Microsoft, Google, or Apple account or with a private email. While Spatial did take that award, the year before that the Polish startup was honored as the Best Innovation Initiative by Emerge Europe.

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AR Insider

APRIL 23, 2020

This says a lot according to Atheer’s Amar Dhaliwal at AWE Europe, given that Porsche was already operating at an elite level. Image Credit: Microsoft. Image Credit: Microsoft. One of the exemplars on that shortlist (more to come in this series) is Atheer‘s work with Porsche to drive 40 percent faster maintenance using AR.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2019

When it comes to peak worldwide search volume over Black Friday weekend (which factors in PSVR’s significant popularity in Europe), Quest was nearly tied with PlayStation VR, both of which significantly led Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, and others by 2 times or more. SEE ALSO Microsoft Affirms VR Isn't a Focus for Xbox Scarlett.

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Slashgear

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It’s been a long time coming, but Microsoft is finally ready to launch HoloLens across Europe. Ever since the headset was first released back in 2016, it’s been available in only a few European regions, namely the UK, Ireland, Germany, and France.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

See Also: The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into Think how Microsoft revolutionized personal computers, or how Apple changed the mobile phone market forever. We’re on the cusp of another life-changing piece of technology and the race is on. PICO 4 ByteDance was another early offering in the hardware market.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 3, 2018

VirtuaLink is new connector standard created by a consortium representing many of VR’s most prominent players—NVIDIA, AMD, Valve, Oculus, and Microsoft. and Europe. The Quadro RTX cards, RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070—and now the TITAN RTX all include it. data channel for on-board cameras, and up to 27 watts of power. TITAN RTX Specs.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

As it had promised on my blog last year , its cool Nreal Light AR glasses have finally arrived in Europe. It’s good to see this cool product finally arriving in Europe, not anymore as a devkit, but as a full-fledged product. Image by Microsoft). Nreal Light is on sale in Germany. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Microsoft Store. In Europe and the UK, the package is selling for €400 and £350 respectively. .” Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be any great extras savings around the web besides the standard Amazon $50 gift card that comes when you sign up for an Amazon Rewards Visa Signature Card , knocking the price down to $300.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In a LinkedIn post ahead of its attendance at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Europe , the Jena, Germany-based enterprise metaverse firm wrote it had joined the Forum to “develop common standards” for increased interoperability in the global tech community.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 14, 2020

The story is similar for Amazon , Microsoft and Bose (kind of), and the 800-pound gorilla in wearables, Apple. Earlier in this series, we examined Google’s ambitions to create more direct user touchpoints (literally) that drive revenue-generating search by voice, visual and text. Fully Actualized.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

And it is a European company, and now in Europe there is a growing interest in creating technologies that can compete with US and China, so Lynx may have some support from the whole European ecosystem, and become much stronger than expected; Samsung is working on a hybrid AR/VR headset according to many rumors.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Another week has passed by, and while the situation in Europe is always more complicated because of the war, in the XR landscape nothing particularly special has happened. Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2019

Holo4Labs is a solution developed by Poland-based company Solution4Labs (together with its parent company TenderHut and its partner SoftwareHut) that aims in improving the efficiency of scientific lab workers thanks to Microsoft HoloLens. Holo4Labs aims exactly at solving these and other problems exploiting Microsoft HoloLens.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2018

FlyInside FSX , the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006) , was built well before first-party VR motion controllers existed, developed back in the DK2-era of 2015 as an ad hoc way of jumping into an already highly-detailed flight sim. Brand new customers can expect to pay $32 for the full game.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Last week we all heard the news about Microsoft abandoning the HoloLens 3, and the denial of it by Alex Kipman and Microsoft itself. I hate how the speculation in the crypto world is risking to ruin what was one of the most interesting open social VR worlds in Europe.

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