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Microsoft May Leapfrog Facebook and Google in VR With HoloLens Tracking

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Microsoft’s play for command of next generation personal computing can be seen today with the announcement of a series of Windows-powered VR headsets starting at $300. An example of the Windows Holographic user interface. If you want to take VR into another room, for example, you have to find places for the sensors again.

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What is MRTK-Unity? – Mixed Reality ToolKit

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The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity. Ready-to-Use Mixed Reality Templates or MRTK “Examples”.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”. It is tricky to categorize the many overlapping innovators in this space.

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What Would a Truly 3D Operating System Look Like?

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The note to buy milk on the fridge, the family photos stuck in the mirror, and putting “must remember” items near the car keys are all examples of spatial external memory. This issue is just another example – on mobile devices, where tabs are not available, users rely heavily on the back button and new windows. External Memory.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

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On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

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Some of the companies trying to go out too early — castAR is a good example of that. You see these companies… like Jaunt, for example. Here’s a prime example. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus?

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

Some of the companies trying to go out too early — castAR is a good example of that. You see these companies… like Jaunt, for example. Here’s a prime example. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus?