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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Figmin XR: Created For AR Headsets Now At Home In Mixed Reality On VR Headsets Davalos ended his career in game development when he received the original HoloLens headset from Microsoft. Believing AR headsets are the future, he poured himself into building the Figmin XR sandbox for creativity.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

According to reliable Apple analyst Ming-chi Kuo, it’s possible the headset will eschew handheld controllers in favor of eye tracking and iris recognition. There’s no lack of speculation around Apple’s rumored AR headset, but the latest is the most sci-fi of them all. Read more.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 13, 2022

Among the biggest technology brands in the world, and a major name for any company interested in advertising within the digital world, Google has plenty to offer in XR promotion. Most companies investing in concepts like SEO and content marketing will already have a strong knowledge of Google and the company’s wide range of tech resources.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

That’s why we rejoiced when Apple launched its headset: while Google and Microsoft can discard new technologies pretty easily, Apple is slower at deciding to take a step, but when it makes it, it commits to it. Following the movements of the eyes, they were able to reliably detect the passwords the user was typing in the headset.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It was really interesting to see Microsoft pivot towards enterprise with the HoloLens and I think it was absolutely the right move for them to make Click To Tweet. For starters, they’re based in Oregon as opposed to Silicon Valley.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 28, 2025

Unfortunately, the only Quest headset to offer eye tracking is the Quest Pro which is now discontinued , but theres a good chance Meta will add eye tracking capabilities to future products. Already, its experimenting with advanced tracking solutions, like EMG wrist bands introduced with the Meta Orion prototype.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Google has unveiled its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform, allowing developers to preview 3D assets via the Unity Editor. Viewing spatially-linked assets on a hyperrealistic 3D planet map, the toolkit powers ARCore and Photorealistic 3D Tiles via the Google Maps Platform, it said on its website.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. Google Chrome, for instance, has been helped a lot by the fact that it is the pre-installed browser on all Android phones. Google Glass v2. What will happen? Honestly, I don’t know.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. Qualcomm and Microsoft have announced a partnership to push together the next-generation lightweight AR glasses. Further, the announcement reveals plans to integrate Microsoft Mesh—the company’s multi-user XR foundation—with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces XR development tools. Road To VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). Maybe with eye-tracking, AI, 5G connection, and a battery that lasts all day. So, I envision the main companies in the field, like Microsoft and Magic Leap, to put their efforts into improving their platform to offer better services to their enterprise customers.

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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. And the same holds for Google, which is applying similar restrictions.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2025

The device includes an upgraded sensor suite, including an RGB camera, position-tracking cameras, eye-tracking cameras, spatial microphones, IMUs, barometer, magnetometer, GNSS, and custom Meta silicon. Aria Gen 2 will feature an overall increase in the specs of the device. It now also features onboard speakers for audio output.

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AR Insider

MAY 3, 2021

The new holographic displays will ship with a number of standalone demos on them, including one from Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios. Trainees can use Oculus or Google Glasses to learn in a virtual rendering of the facility from almost anywhere around the world. Pfizer uses VR in its $450M injectables factory.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. This means that foveated rendering for VR applications will be possible using eye-tracking devices embedded into the headset. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2018

The Decentralized Identity Foundation formed in May 2017 with a number of blockchain companies and bigger companies like Microsoft who got together to open source their blockchain identity IP in order to create a number of decentralized identity open standards. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Alongside Apple’s XR device debut, other firms, from Zoom to Microsoft, are jumping on the spatial computing bandwagon. First adopters of Vision Pro users can access Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Loop, complete with integrated Co-Pilot features, starting tomorrow. VR|MR 2024 wrapped up this week.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. That’s why even Microsoft took Epic’s stances : Microsoft uses UE4 to develop some products also for Apple devices, and this decision hurts also its business.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”. High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. All APIs have a plain C version.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. The old Reverb was already a great headset, with a 2K per eye resolution that was above all the other headsets on the market (with the exception of Pimax, of course).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

According to The Verge, the top executives from Facebook are working on a rebrand of the company, most probably to create a parent company that owns all the various businesses controlled by Facebook … something similar to what Google made when it created Alphabet. Positional Tracking : SteamVR 2.0/1.0 Positional Tracking : SteamVR 2.0/1.0

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

This involved then-innovative feedback methods like eye-tracking and even going into customers homes while they used TurboTax. Google Glass was released in 2013, which wasn’t powerful enough. But the real inflection point for enterprise AR hardware came in 2015: Microsoft Hololens.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week saw Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, Meta, and Sony move to optimize their product offerings and business operations. Shahram Izadi, Vice President of AR at Google , notes how Android ecosystem support will enable developers to collaborate with Samsung and Qualcomm to drive the future of immersive and spatial XR.

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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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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens. Microsoft Capture Studio is offering such services scanning celebrities and performers for entertainment and education purposes. Just imagine a world where Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have bodies.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JANUARY 31, 2024

The event sees leading XR firms such as Meta, Google, and Magic Leap actively participating in many of the event’s esteemed keynotes and exhibition spaces. Yesterday, Google and Mojo Vision representatives introduced the event, kicking off the monumental event with an opening keynote. VR|MR 2024 There are many vendors at SPIE.AR|VR|MR

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Lian Jie Su, Principal Analyst at Omdia , explains where AR glasses providers need to focus their attention to optimise sales: Major technology vendors such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta and Qualcomm are looking to bring spatial computing to a range of edge devices, including smartphones, head-mounted displays, AR glasses and robots.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In the meanwhile, its adoption is getting better, too: the popular Unity game engine promises the first implementations of OpenXR for the end of the year with a complete implementation coming in 2021, and Microsoft has already completely switched to an OpenXR runtime. More info (Using Google Translate).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 20, 2017

This less expensive unit is said to be available by the end of this year while GF-LD with SteamVR Tracking is aiming for availability to developers in the middle of 2018. Both headsets are said to feature a Tegra chip and 2560 x 1440 OLED displays, along with Leap Motion, front-facing stereo cameras and eye-tracking.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: Episode 28 of the VRScout Report, we got new 360 toys on iOS, Hololens is helping elevator technicians, VR might help you control your dreams, Apple CEO Tim Cook on augmented reality, VR/AR industry funding wrapup, and more… iOS NOW CAN TAKE 360 PHOTOS WITH GOOGLE CARDBOARD CAMERA, TOO.

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Road to VR

JULY 31, 2023

Long considered the holy grail of immersive computing, all-day AR headsets represent a way of interacting with new layers of information in daily life which would span everything from turn-by-turn directions to gaming applications—like Google Maps directions floating on the street in front of your car or a city-wide version of Pokémon Go.

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ARVR

JUNE 9, 2021

Microsoft Microsoft is one of the few companies that has approached augmented reality wearables more successfully. We expect to see Microsoft still at work for a long time in this area and we think it can succeed where it has failed with mobile devices.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

Not so long ago, if you wanted a cheap VR headset, you’d be limited to phone-based devices like Google Cardboard. For instance, the Meta Quest 3 comes with virtual keyboards and similar tools that are ideal for use with collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 12, 2024

It promises 4K resolution per eye, excellent ergonomics, and support for all your favorite apps, including Microsoft Teams. The Immersed Visor is an ultra-compact spatial computing device that combines micro-OLED displays with HD color passthrough, eye tracking, and inside-out tracking. What is the Immersed Visor?

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VRScout

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Abrash laid out the impending plan for Oculus and Facebook’s future: optics and displays, graphics, eye tracking, audio, interaction, ergonomics, and computer vision… HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OCULUS CONNECT 3.

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ARVR

JANUARY 21, 2022

This past year, Google introduced a few new features for ARCore such as recording and playback APIs. For example, Microsoft Hololens 2 can provide information to the surgeon while allowing them to use both of their hands during the procedure. However, Google Glass launched eight years ago. Are we any closer now?

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