Road to VR

AUGUST 28, 2023

There’s no word when the company plans to roll out access on browsers either, which the beta’s FAQ says will broaden availability of the platform to iOS devices on Safari, and Google Chrome, Safari, or Microsoft Edge on laptops and desktops.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

– Post Malone’s Twelve Carat Toothache: A VR Experience Meta, ARTE France, BFI; Archer’s Mark, Atlas V – On The Morning You Wake (To the End of the World) Schell Games – Lost Recipes SENSORIUM – Out-of-This-World Experiences The MetaMovie – The MetaMovie Presents: Alien Rescue YORD – LifeboardVR | YORD.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Developers are charging forward with various entertainment and productivity applications (over 80 in the Microsoft store to date) and businesses are finding new ways to utilize the head mounted display as well. HoloLens is now available to pre-order exclusively from the Microsoft Store. As for a retail edition of the device?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 21, 2023

Laval Virtual April 12-6th, France Laval Virtual, hosted in Laval, France, is a conference specially targeted at technology enthusiasts and experts in the immersive world. It’s definitely worth checking this event out this year for more news on what’s to come from Microsoft’s MR roadmap.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 21, 2023

The platform has been utilized by a number of the largest businesses in the world, such as Royal Dutch Shell, General Electric (GE), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Nestle, DHL, Accenture, and Air France. Additionally, Microsoft Azure, a cloud service provider, is the only international access point for the cloud-based PAAS.

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MARCH 13, 2017

That’s where Microsoft’s HoloLens Agency Readiness Partner Program comes in. Just as its long-winded title suggests, this scheme is designed to recognize studios that have a broad knowledge of and lots of experience with Microsoft’s MR headset. We got hands-on with one such kit two weeks back.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This month is proving fruitful for Microsoft’s immersive technology division. As the firm works towards its industrial 2024 Metaverse roadmap, Microsoft is keen to display client success stories highlighting how enterprise partnerships enhance their workplaces with Microsoft’s immersive product portfolio.

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ARPost

JUNE 9, 2020

You can look forward to representatives from Google, Facebook, Intel, HP, Microsoft, and more. Across the US, as well as in France and China, a network of partner location-based entertainment (LBE) will be giving access to Cannes XR Virtual to journalists and guests without virtual reality headsets.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

At the Espace Mayenne in Laval, France, organisers hosted the event from April 10-12, providing insights into the AR/VR/MR industry and the future of digital engagement and work – including keynotes from XR/spatial computing vendors and other firms with a presence in the XR space, both as end-users and solution providers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2019

Some days ago, I found an article on Futurism talking about a university in France able to create the “first smart contact lens” The article also talked about Augmented Reality and the interest of the DARPA for using this product. HoloLens 2 are already used by the military in the US (Image by Microsoft).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

INTERPOL recently unveiled its novel metaverse law enforcement strategy by allowing visitors to tour a digital twin of its General Secretariat headquarters in France, it announced in October. Cyber-enabled financial crimes have sharply increased throughout the global COVID-19 pandemic. pic.twitter.com/y8mk7HkJsY.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 14, 2022

billion meeting minutes in Microsoft Teams alone in one day. . Companies like High Fidelity and Microsoft are already working on environments that make this possible. . For instance, a team meeting in France could set up a conference in front of the Eiffel tower. . The company has seen a record of 2.7

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 29, 2024

EssilorLuxottica, a multinational corporation based in Italy and France, is already working with Meta on developing Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Based on LSEG data, this stake could be valued at $4.73 billion, given the company’s overall valuation of over $94 billion.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In just a few days time, Microsoft will host WinHEC , its annual hardware / platform conference. Intel has 600 people here working on hardware form factors, while the similar story is with Microsoft and a few other known global players. Microsoft is not playing such tricks. 4 GB of RAM. A graphics card with DirectX 12 support.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I’ve very limited time, but luckily this week has not been very relevant for the ecosystem, so I’m managing to write this newsletter anyway Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) AltspaceVR shuts down In one of the saddest moments of the latest years in VR, AltspaceVR has closed its doors.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

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. Oculus has a healthy smattering of demo locations across the US in many Best Buy and Microsoft stores. Oculus Rift, Touch, and Gear VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

NReal worked with major broadcasting and telecommunication firms like BT Sport and Orange to provide viewers at home with immersive and interactive streams of this year’s Tour de France and Premier League. Notably, Microsoft is joining Qualcomm’s list of launch partners.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Nreal SDK runs on the Unity-based Microsoft Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK), and applies to Nreal’s Air and Light smart glasses. Nreal built the hand-tracking update using two open-source MRTK applications, “Hand Tracking Hub” and “Startup Scene,” available via Microsoft Design Labs. Core NRSDK Updates.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Laval Virtual April 12-16th, 2023 Hosted in Laval, France, the Laval Virtual Event is a conference fully dedicated to exploring the opportunities in immersive technologies, including augmented and virtual reality. There will also be behind-the-scenes insights into trends like digital twins, 3D reconstruction and simulation.

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Upload VR

JULY 10, 2023

At Microsoft in the 90s he co-developed Windows NT, the workstation OS which became the technology foundation of all Windows versions from XP onwards. Mark Lucovsky is a veteran operating systems engineer. From 2017 Lucovsky led Facebook's effort to build a new operating system for AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft ramps up distribution of HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Other relevant news. HoloLens 2 availability has been expanded to 15 new regions : Italy (YESSS!)

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MARCH 17, 2017

It’s also coming to Microsoft’s Xbox One which doesn’t support VR, at least not yet. A few weeks on from GDC 2017 wrapping up, we finally have a release date for the game. Developer Honor Code this week announced that Narcosis finally launches on March 28th with support for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 10, 2024

Apple also highlights how major workplace digital service providers, including Box, Craft, Fantastical, MindNode, Slack, Things 3, Webex, Zoom, and Microsoft 365, are adopting the hardware. Apple explained that roughly 2,000 spatial applications are available on the productivity-focused XR device alongside more than 1.5

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Updated Avatars The Vision Pro update allows improvements to the Persona avatar feature that workers can use to communicate with others using devices or those leveraging Persona-compatible communication services like Microsoft Teams.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Menlo Park-based firm released its MR device in October, and Meta priced the Quest Pro device at £1,799 in regions including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and France. Moreover, Microsoft is powering many MR hardware and software solutions with its immersive software development kit. Is the Future in Mixed Reality?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Storefronts across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and France have begun selling the device to customers. Meta’s latest enterprise headset will also integrate Microsoft and Zoom’s collaborative tools, providing workers access Office 365’s productivity suite of applications.

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AllThingsVR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

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.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

In addition to offering $100 in Oculus Store credit for every new Rift purchase from Best Buy, Amazon, and Microsoft (US), GAME (UK), Saturn (Germany), and FNAC (France), Oculus have provided some significant software discounts on the store, highlighted below: Dirt Rally – $40 (33% off) – a superb rally sim from Codemasters.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

With partners like Unity, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Intel, the GDC event showcases some of the latest technologies in the XR world from the biggest businesses. This year, the expo will have some fantastic speakers from companies like Accenture , Netflix , Microsoft , and Ubisoft.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 11, 2024

While the technology is impressive, many enterprise solutions providers—such as service providers Box, Craft, Fantastical, MindNode, Slack, Things 3, Webex, Zoom, and Microsoft 365—are partnering to boost the development, and supporting these groups is vital to continued support. Apple plans to release the product on Friday, June 28.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Inside that set of tools lurked data files for what appeared to be two different headsets, codenamed Franc and Luck. That person also found specific numbers in the iOS framework referring to the fields of view for the two specific headset codenames: 58 and 61 degrees for Luck and Franc, respectively. (A

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 15, 2024

This past weekend, Apple debuted its Vision Pro mixed reality headset in the United Kingdom, marking the end of the firm’s international device rollout completion, which started at WWDC 2024 and includes regions such as mainland China, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Canada, France, and Germany. drop compared to the previous year.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

For example, the two firms teamed up to present an immersive broadcast of the Tour de France in 2022. Moreover, last year, Nreal partnered with University researchers and Microsoft to leverage its smart glasses technology as a medical device. Firms like Orange are working with NReal to enhance broadcasts with AR visuals.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This week, the company has announced it is going to hire additional 10,000 people to help in developing the m verse , and all these new hires will happen in the Europen Union , and in particular, inside Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands and Ireland . Microsoft X-Rings is a controllers that can change its shape.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 19, 2020

Because Spatial is hardware-agnostic every colleague doesn’t need to have a Magic Leap 1, they can join a meeting from a Microsoft HoloLens, Oculus Quest, Android/iPhone mobile device or desktop (just without the fancy spatial computing).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Bochud Microsoft already has the gaming power and gaming data, so that’s been overlooked. Then there are Germany, France, Switzerland, and the UK. If we don’t get that part right, we’ll be running a race to the end, and we’ll end up with a whole bunch of different ecosystems that don’t work together.

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