Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Updates to the beta version of Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR, the official integration which allows Windows VR headsets to be used with SteamVR, hint at “upcoming hardware releases.” There’s at least a chance that the G2 is not the only headset among the “upcoming hardware releases” for WMR.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 23, 2023

Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees, and with it the company is axing social VR platform AltspaceVR and its XR interface framework, Mixed Reality Toolkit. In a Hail Mary that few expected, Microsoft turned around and snapped up the ailing platform only two months after the planned shut-down date.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 24, 2024

Today, Microsoft is making its long—awaited Mesh for Teams immersive VR meeting platform available for enterprise end users. The service is now available for clients, allowing them to access Microsoft’s dynamic virtual remote meeting solution via desktop or Meta Quest headsets. Mesh is helping us achieve that.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 4, 2022

Today during Qualcomm’s CES 2022 press conference, the company announced a partnership with fellow tech-giant Microsoft which will involve “designing custom AR chips and integrating software platforms.” Qualcomm Technologies’ core XR strategy has always been delivering the most cutting-edge.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2022

Microsoft announced it’s planning to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the studio will play a key role in the development of its future metaverse platforms. Xbox doesn’t feature any form of official VR compatibility, not even with its range of Microsoft Mixed Reality headsets.

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Road to VR

MARCH 14, 2019

Zero Latency, creator of a leading VR attraction platform, is now deploying their ‘gen 2’ VR hardware. Zero Latency ‘Gen 1’ hardware | Image courtesy Zero Latency. While functional, this older hardware didn’t offer the low-latency tracking or sharper visuals available in more modern VR headsets.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2024

This week, Korean news outlets reported that Microsoft is attempting to purchase OLED display panels for an unreleased MR headset/device. Interestingly, Microsoft is ordering the OLED panels from Samsung Display, a sub-division of Samsung, which aims to debut its own XR headset later this year or early next.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Earlier this month, reports circulated on social media platforms such as LinkedIn about HoloLens/Microsoft Mixed Reality Partners receiving last-time-to-buy incentives for the HoloLens 2 device. These remaining devices will be available only through Microsoft directly or through official resellers. What are we doing with the hardware?

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Microsoft confirmed to UploadVR that it told its customers and partners now is the last time to buy the device before stock runs out. With passthrough headsets still years out, and Magic Leap still focused on consumers, Microsoft dominated the enterprise AR market for years with HoloLens 2. HoloLens 2 production has ended.

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Road to VR

JULY 2, 2021

Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) includes support for SteamVR headsets, however playing via VR requires some of the most modern (and consequently least available) PC components due to its demanding spec requirement. We’re interested to see just how much update 5 does when it arrives on July 27th.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 29, 2024

As reported by Windows Latest , Microsoft recently filed a patent request showing a potential first look at a pair of augmented reality smart glasses. Patents do not always indicate a firm’s upcoming products or hardware. This news comes as Meta tests Vision Pro-style features and unveils new XR productivity hardware packages.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This week at Ignite 2024, Microsoft announced that it would launch a mixed reality (MR) version of its Windows portfolio for Meta Quest headsets. The news comes as the firm drops support for HoloLens, seemingly highlighting the firm’s shift towards becoming an immersive software provider rather than a hardware one.

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Anand Tech

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Both hardware and software can be used for that layer of additional security, and it becomes particularly important when dealing with virtualization, especially when it comes to virtual and physical attacks. Over time, according to Microsoft, a physical TPM module in these systems have become a weak point in modern security design.

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Road to VR

JUNE 8, 2022

Alex Kipman is leaving Microsoft amid what an Insider report alleges to have stemmed from misconduct allegations leveled at the HoloLens co-creator. ” Military version of HoloLens (IVAS) | Image courtesy Microsoft. The post HoloLens Chief Alex Kipman to Leave Microsoft Amid Misconduct Allegations appeared first on Road to VR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This week at Ignite 2024, TeamViewer, an XR remote guidance service provider, introduced new AI features via the Microsoft technology portfolio, including Teams, Copilot, and Azure OpenAI infrastructure integrations. The award appears to relate to TeamViewer’s recent integration with Microsoft Teams and Copilot AI service.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2021

NVIDIA is continuing the rollout of its CloudXR technology on the three leading cloud computing platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The post NVIDIA CloudXR is Launching on Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and AWS appeared first on Road to VR. Nvidia also says it’s working to bring CloudXR to Tencent Cloud.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 24, 2023

Last Friday, Microsoft-owned immersive social platform Altspace VR (virtual reality) announced the closure of its service effective March 10, 2023. The decision comes following recent lay offs at Microsoft. The entire division faces an uncertain future following Microsoft laying off 11,000 workers this month.

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AR Insider

MARCH 12, 2021

A mong tech giants investing in AR, Microsoft continues to show strong signs as a leading platform for enterprise productivity. That not only includes its best-of-breed hardware in the Hololens 2, but an expanding suite of software (it is Microsoft after all) for enterprise AR. Fertile Soil .

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 21, 2024

Recently, the US Army announced that it would be considering new XR hardware partners for its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) initiative roadmap to create an MR headset for in-the-field armed forces. For Microsoft, the US Army IVAS contract reached an estimated $22 billion, a substantial figure for any headset vendor.

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AR Insider

JUNE 10, 2021

continuing here with Microsoft. Among tech giants investing in AR, Microsoft continues to show strong signs as a leading platform for enterprise productivity. That not only includes its best-of-breed hardware in the Hololens 2, but an expanding suite of software (it is Microsoft after all) for enterprise AR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 24, 2023

Last Friday, Microsoft-owned immersive social platform Altspace VR (virtual reality) announced the closure of its service effective March 10, 2023. The decision comes following recent lay offs at Microsoft. The entire division faces an uncertain future following Microsoft laying off 11,000 workers this month.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Microsoft’s enterprise-focused HoloLens 3 may be dead in the water, as a recent report maintains that internal divisions have hobbled the company’s efforts to release its next AR headset as planned. Alex Kipman wearing HoloLens 2, Image courtesy Microsoft. Microsoft Responds.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

We already know Microsoft is launching Windows 11 on Oct. 5, but what would a new operating system be without new hardware to showcase it? Microsoft is having what many have pegged as a Surface hardware event on Sept. 22 at 8 a.m. It’s all virtual, of course, and there’s a link available if you want to… Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Last month, Apple debuted a series of new hardware updates for its broader portfolio. Beta, engineers can finally get first-party updates regarding the hardware. Currently, news from Apple regarding the Vision Pro is not as extensive as earlier in the year. However, with visionOS 2.2 visionOS 2.2

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 4, 2024

This week, Microsoft announced significant layoffs accounting for roughly 1,000 positions in its HoloLens and Azure Cloud divisions. This puts into question the firm’s development of HoloLens 2 hardware and Azure “Moonshot” projects that include collaboration with firms like SpaceX to enhance highly complex operations.

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Road to VR

JUNE 20, 2023

Amid mounting pressure from Sony with the recent launch of its PSVR 2 headset for PlayStation 5, Microsoft again affirmed that it’s still waiting for the technology to mature before offering any sort of dedicated VR software or hardware for Xbox.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This week, enterprise-grade AR smart glasses vendor Vuzix announced the integration of Microsoft’s Intune, a cloud-based Mobile Device Management (MDM) service, to help businesses deploy hardware across a workforce.

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. Surprisingly, there was little at the conference directly related to HoloLens , Microsoft’s mixed reality headset. The Future of the Cloud, According to Satya Nadella. Satya Nadella.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Firms like Microsoft, Meta, AWS, NVIDIA, and countless others are elevating workplace XR in all its forms, and the list is long. While the world is far from ubiquity, this will take many years; the XR space may truly take its foundational steps as new hardware and software lurk around the corner.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

After examining Amazon last week, it’s time to zero in on Microsoft. In addition to standard audio fare like music and phone calls, they’ll integrate natively with Microsoft products like Office. Microsoft had a similar fate in smartphone era. So how do wireless earbuds better position Microsoft?

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Road to VR

MARCH 17, 2021

Microsoft says however that the error message was inaccurate, and that VR for Xbox is still not a happening. Some prognosticated that Microsoft has mistakenly leaked VR support for Xbox, something it has repeatedly rebuked in the past. This tracks with Microsoft’s long-term stance on VR for Xbox consoles going back to Xbox One.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Microsoft revealed last year it had plans to pull the plug on support for its entire WMR platform on Windows. “Windows Mixed Reality is deprecated and will be removed in Windows 11, version 24H2,” Microsoft said back in December 2023. Up until now, that is.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

A report on Thurrott.com indicates Microsoft is skipping an incremental hardware update to its Hololens in favor of a generational upgrade in 2019. The article frames this as Microsoft deciding it has “a large lead in the AR space and isn’t feeling pressure to release a product that is only an incremental update.”

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VRScout

MARCH 24, 2020

With all the hype surrounding yesterday’s release of Half-Life: Alyx, many may have missed HP’s announcement regarding a mysterious new VR headset built in partnership with Microsoft and Valve Corporation. Released in 2019, the Windows Mixed Reality headset was met with mixed reviews due to multiple reports of faulty hardware.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Everything we’ve been expecting Microsoft to show off at its Surface event on Wednesday looks even more likely to appear. A handful of leaks out today indicate that the Windows-based Surface Pro X and Surface Pro 8 are on the horizon, as is Microsoft’s Android flagship, the Surface Duo 2. Read more.

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2021

Last week Microsoft became the first major tech company to host a keynote presentation fully in virtual reality. Last week, Microsoft took the next step toward one possible future of the tech keynote when it delivered the opening presentation to its Ignite 2021 developer conference fully in virtual reality. Image courtesy Microsoft.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This week, reports are circulating on social media platforms such as Linkedin highlighting how Hololens/Microsoft Mixed Reality Partners are receiving “ last time to buy ” incentives for the Hololens 2 device while also noting that first-generation HoloLens devices will soon receive a final update.

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