ARPost

MARCH 12, 2021

The exciting news is that we have started a new tech cycle, with the combination of augmented reality , virtual reality , and artificial intelligence. Many leading technology companies such as Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google are investing billions into developing these technologies. The Beginnings of a New Tech Cycle.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Bigscreen , the social VR app which lets users connect in a virtual environment while retaining the ability to use (and share) their own PC desktop content, now supports Microsoft’s ‘Windows Mixed Reality’ VR headsets. The app continues to be free, as it has been since launch.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Visor is a new headset fully designed around this use case, a lightweight streamlined device rather than a generalized headset for gaming. Almost all of the three minute walkthrough takes place in a virtual environment, with only the last ten seconds showing passthrough. The Immersed app supports Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 18, 2023

It was not Microsoft’s one, but a professional simulator for pilots. It was interesting that the SDK could not only track his hand but also segment it to show it inside the virtual application. People at Vrgineers made me try their headset with a flight simulator software.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

It will be possible to shoot 4K videos of the augmented applications, body tracking has been improved , and the system will be able to perform better environment understanding The new ARKit features will be used by a new tool provided by Apple for all its iPhone users: RoomPlan. The Upload Summer Showcase brought news about VR games.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Some of the most common myths and misconceptions surrounding VR include the following: it always causes motion sickness and virtual reality is solely applicable to games. We talked with The Park Playground CEO Peter Vindevogel, who shared his thoughts on these myths and misconceptions, shedding light on virtual reality technology.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 25, 2023

Last Friday , AltspaceVR announced that will be shutting down its virtual environment in March. AltspaceVR was a consumer-focused immersive space that could be accessed either via the desktop or through a virtual reality headset. In an SEC filing last Wednesday , Microsoft said it will lay off 10,000 employees.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Pokémon GO isn’t exactly what we’d call augmented reality—based on the game’s (and smartphone’s) lack of computer vision and environmental mapping—but fans of the megalithic pocket monster franchise aren’t sitting on their hands waiting for Nintendo or Niantic to build a real augmented reality version of Pokémon.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

What started as a novel concept, largely embraced by entertainment and gaming companies, has become a mainstream sensation. With XR technologies, we can connect remote learners in a virtual environment designed to recreate a physical classroom, or allow them to traverse environments they couldn’t access in-person.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

As you probably already know, a metaverse is the digital reality that combines aspects of social media, online gaming, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and cryptocurrencies to allow users to interact virtually. Microsoft has its own AR technology wing, which makes a headset known as the Hololens.

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CraneMorley

JANUARY 23, 2024

Back to Blog Page In today’s rapidly advancing world of mixed reality, Microsoft’s HoloLens and Azure are driving innovation and transforming industries. HoloLens: Blurring Realities for Aviation Microsoft’s HoloLens is a mixed reality headset that seamlessly blends the physical and digital realms.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 1, 2023

These possibilities could range from virtual real estate to immersive events, concerts, and travel experiences. To be successful in the metaverse, businesses need to understand the unique characteristics of virtual environments and create experiences that are tailored to them.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 17, 2023

However, there are various levels of immersion offered by virtual reality. However, with these types of VR, you only interact with the virtual environment on a fundamental level. These are basically hardware components that allow users to take action and do things in a virtual environment.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Today at the Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Community event in Shenzhen, China, the company announced that VR/AR (mixed reality) headsets from top manufacturers are due to hit the market in 2017. Microsoft’s HoloLens of course will also be in the mix.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2017

His company, Packet39 , makers of VR game Orbital Injection , recently received the Developer Edition headset made by Acer, which was due for an August delivery alongside a similar headset from HP. Software developer Shachar “Vice” Weis has described his first impressions of Acers Windows Mixed Reality VR headset dev kit on his blog.

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ARPost

MARCH 12, 2021

The exciting news is that we have started a new tech cycle, with the combination of augmented reality , virtual reality , and artificial intelligence. Many leading technology companies such as Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google are investing billions into developing these technologies. The Beginnings of a New Tech Cycle.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 20, 2018

AltspaceVR brings out new tools to make it easy for anybody to make and share their own personalized virtual environments. Recently unveiled updates to Microsoft’s social VR platform will allow anyone to build customizable VR spaces.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The day has come and finally, the sandbox to create games without coding that is Dreams on PlayStation has released a patch to be used with virtual reality. The community can play the games you created, and can also remix them and create better ones upon them. And other members of the community now can expand that game.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 11, 2023

On the one hand, industry analysts still see incredible potential in the concept of a new virtual environment for work and play. Studies also suggest there are more than 400 million unique monthly active users leveraging existing metaverse environments. Is the Metaverse cancelled? It all depends on who you ask.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

Kate Edwards shares a quality with many people in the game industry: She didn’t set out to work in games. Reflecting on her career and her time at the IGDA, she says that like many, she ended up in games after finishing a so-called “normal career.”. The common denominator is that we love games, and we have since we were kids.”.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It is quite obvious that time is against existing solutions, and rapid AR/VR market expansion is restrained only by the inconvenience of interaction with the virtual environment and a still high degree of “exoticism” of these technologies. Same goes for gesture control, it is basically used for video game industry only.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To build truly believable virtual environments, we need to believe our ears as much as our eyes. But while all the R&D muscle that Microsoft put behind this tech is certainly impressive, the question is whether that personalized spatial audio translates into more immersive user experiences.

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CraneMorley

MAY 31, 2022

million jobs worldwide will use augmented and virtual reality by 2030. These realities are not a sector for gaming specifically but part of the future of our daily life. What is Virtual Reality? Virtual Reality might be the easiest to explain and understand of all the realities.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

70s : Group of researchers at different organizations, such as NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of North Carolina, continued research in computer graphics and virtual reality (Krevelen, 2010). 2000s : First outdoor mobile AR game ARQuake. Augmented Reality References Helen Papagiannis. Ronald Azuma.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This flying fluid was reflective, and on it, I could see the perfect reflection of the virtual environment I was in , including my own avatar, which was moving live. Unrelated to my demos with the XR-4, I have also tried a demo with a previous Varjo headset and a plane simulation machine together with Microsoft Flight Simulator.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 22, 2022

Satya Nadella , Microsoft MSFT -1.4%. Microsoft’s CEO understands that the metaverse concept will impact every part of the way we do business. Whether it will be Meta, Microsoft, or his own company that defines the way we use it, is up in the air. Metaverse is not only a place to game. Tim Sweeney , Epic Games.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Leveraging its Igloo Core Engine (ICE), the company has curated a host of content in its viewing spaces, including building information modelling (BIM), metaverse worlds, 360-degree video, game engine demos, and many others. People can also view YouTube 360 videos, Google Street View, as well as the enterprise’s bespoke 360 web browser.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For the most part, your digital identity on channels like Microsoft Teams and Zoom is likely to consist of a face and a set of shoulders. A full-body avatar is technically challenging, particularly if users expect their legs and bodies to move naturally in virtual environments. Are Full Body Avatars the Future?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 6, 2022

In her 2020 article, she quoted Ryan Gill, Co-Founder and CEO of Crucible , who explained how Direct-to-Avatar (D2A) business models sold goods and products directly to avatars to bypass supply chain management, namely in “social or competitive virtual environments like games or open worlds where consumers project themselves as an avatar.”

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

You’ll start with a default set of objects, many of which may look familiar if you’ve played Oculus first-party titles like Toy Box & Farlands , but you can also unlock new objects by playing certain games. On the other hand, Oculus’ virtual windowing tech works with any app on your desktop, UWP or not.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Although many tend to focus on gaming and entertainment when thinking about VR technologies, virtual reality is proving transformative in technical and industrial applications, too. Osso VR won this year’s competition with a surgical training system that allows new surgical techniques to be practiced on virtual patients.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Based in Germany, ThyssenKrupp is a European national conglomerate that just announced a partnership with the Microsoft Hololens. As the virtual reality medium is physically more immersive than traditional video games, the potential for this real world overlap is significantly higher. TASTEMADE’S GIANT VIRTUAL DONUTS!!!

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

This article is a brief collection of readings, set in an overall commentary about virtual reality, primarily intended as a backgrounder for semi-old friends and colleagues who may be interested. VR is growing but it is still a niche area, within which the non-gaming social platforms are another embedded niche. Most are solo games.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

An older, but interesting example of marker-based AR is the PlayStation 3 Wonderbook, a gaming ‘peripheral’ that allows players to view a spell book on their screen. From a software engineering standpoint, Microsoft Hololence’s development is based on the Microsoft technology stack and Azure Cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

I have had terribly busy days with the launch of our game HitMotion: Reloaded that will happen tomorrow on Viveport M. Alyx is a Half-Life game set between Half-Life 1 and 2 , in which you embody Alyx Vance. The price is 50€ but there will be a 10% discount for who preorders the game. I love him.

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Trenzi VR

JANUARY 10, 2024

Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Qualcomm followed the steps and invested billions of dollars in that concept. Gaming, Education and entertainment business can become important sectors for metaverse. The metaverse can be used by consumers for entertainment and gaming. This has created a bullish prediction on the Metaverse economy.

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Trenzi VR

JANUARY 10, 2024

Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Qualcomm followed the steps and invested billions of dollars in that concept. Gaming, Education and entertainment business can become important sectors for metaverse. The metaverse can be used by consumers for entertainment and gaming. This has created a bullish prediction on the Metaverse economy.

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