VRScout

MAY 28, 2020

New-and-improved hardware offers a no-compromise VR experience for $599. Support for Microsoft spatial audio as well as HP Labs’ new AI and psychoacoustics spatial audio format enhances the in-headset experience even further, offering intense 3D soundscapes impossible to recreate with in conventional stereo. “The

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 29, 2025

Meta offers companies a wide range of powerful (and affordable) hardware options, flexible applications, and software solutions to help them unlock the power of extended reality. Could you create a custom virtual environment where teams can collaborate, share ideas, and work together on developing virtual prototypes?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Microsoft unveiled an experiment this week that explores the future of always-on virtual reality. DreamWalker: created by Microsoft researchers Jackie Yang, Christian Holz, Eyal Ofek, Andrew D. Wilson, Image courtesy Microsoft Research.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2017

As usual, Microsoft is firing first with its press conference this E3, but it’s doing so even earlier than anticipated. This E3 is shaping up to be the biggest batle between Sony and Microsoft since 2013, the year where each had to convince gamers to buy a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One respectively. pic.twitter.com/EWilMOb47s.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

Better AR Hardware Options Better AR hardware options, caused by innovations in mobile technology, such as LiDAR and ToF (depth sensing hardware). Companies like Google, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Vuzix are developing smart glasses to enhance the AR experience. For example, it’s popular among furniture stores like EQ3.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 20, 2024

Mozilla Hubs has been available to its community for over five years, allowing them to create virtual worlds, upload assets, and organize meetups. The Menlo Park-based firm is most likely actively working on its immersive software and hardware and is ready for a big announcement. What is Next for the Metaverse?

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2018

Allowing users to interact with the virtual world using their own two hands is a key component in truly selling an experience and immersing participants. That’s why Microsoft is currently in development on a solution that would actually link two standard VR motion controllers together to simulate realistic tension and pressure.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Constantly seeking the rush of engaging with new material, consumers aren’t gripped by their hardware – phones, TVs, or laptops – but are drawn in by unique, well-crafted content. . Now, the hardware cycle is drawing to a close. Making hardware is incredibly hard, expensive, and time consuming,” continues Fink.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 14, 2017

Strider VR uses a novel approach to omnidirectional treadmill design, using a rotatable ball array positioned above a traditional linear treadmill, combined with a Microsoft Kinect 2 sensor. They claim this results in a “near perfect illusion of walking in a virtual world”.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

VR improves the immersion by providing better awareness due to allowing to naturally observe the environment by moving your head thus simulating the real-world actions. Navy as well as Apache helicopters using real-world cockpits with “out of the window” virtual world rendering. These were very well received.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

Frontal view of the device (Image by Microsoft). The biggest news of the MWC for what concerns XR has been for sure the announcement of the HoloLens 2 by Microsoft. Image by Microsoft). Together with the HoloLens 2, Microsoft has also announced a new version of the Kinect, called Kinect Azure. HoloLens 2. Azure Kinect.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Microsoft’s advice to HoloLens content developers explains the issue and acknowledges the constraint in some detail. Microsoft suggests that designers should attempt to structure content scenes to encourage users to interact one meter or farther away from the content. See Also: ThirdEye Releases X2 MR Glasses.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

So, in the past few weeks we have seen big tech, including Meta and Microsoft, announce massive layoffs , mostly to their XR division and at the same time, pivoting towards artificial intelligence and generative content. The hardware consisted of blue HTC Vive Pros connected to the gaming PCs above. When it works, it works.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 8, 2022

At the event taking place both in Las Vegas and online from 12 to 16 June, Vection will introduce updates that give Webex users immersive collaboration features such as virtual world-building tools to strengthen modern hybrid working routines.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3. There is instead a rumored partnership with Samsung , where Samsung would actually build a new XR device and Microsoft offer the platform on top of which the headset may run. Some updates on Meta products.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This marks an essential point in the industry as devices are becoming cheaper and more accessible, meaning content creation will be needed to support the hardware promises. According to Atlas, enterprise and commercial end-users can leverage the platform to build bespoke virtual worlds, assets, and designs, for example.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 30, 2023

To help Stwart highlight the benefits of Meta’s integration of Qualcomm’s XR/AR chipsets was the Head of Hardware Partnerships at Meta, Jenniffer Hom – a figure who helped bring Meta/Qualcomm devices to market. Qualcomm recognises this trend alongside Meta, Microsoft, and others.

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ARPost

JANUARY 29, 2020

The nature of AR technology gives us the ability to experience and create exciting new opportunities, dramatically impacting the way we interact and communicate with one another, giving birth to new applications and hardware. The electronics that do this will enable us to interact intuitively with virtual objects. Infotainment Trends.

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JULY 26, 2017

It looks like it will access HTC’s storefront, called Viveport, to get to virtual worlds rather than Google Play. These standalone systems are designed to be far more convenient than Rift and Vive because they don’t require separate hardware like a phone, PC or dedicated external tracking systems to operate.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Have you ever wondered, “How does virtual reality work?” How can the right combination of hardware and software instantly transport us into a new world? What components does a “virtual reality” experience need to be truly immersive? In recent years, the “virtual reality” world has evolved drastically.

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ARPost

MARCH 7, 2023

Their actions on the stage were volumetrically captured and displayed in The Polys’ AltspaceVR environment, similar to the launch of Microsoft Mesh. I’d like to thank Avi, Kent [Bye], and everyone at the XR Guild and the Virtual World Society , and everyone in the XR community,” said Heller. “I

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

The post I’ve found today thanks to a tweet by Philip Rosedale shows one of these stories about the dark world of Ethereum. Microsoft IVAS program is not doing great. The special IVAS program that Microsoft is carrying on to develop a special version of HoloLens 2 for the US Army is not doing that well. Other news. Learn more.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 25, 2023

Plus, it was a proprietary system, owned by Microsoft, and didn’t play well with other metaverse platforms. In its blog post, the company said that it will be focusing on other metaverse-related efforts, such as the launch of Microsoft Mesh , an enterprise-focused metaverse platform. ” And it’s making money.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

These investments are seen as foundations for future content and hardware, and with consumers purchasing more immersive tech hardware, it’s likely that we’ll be seeing more VR and AR content. We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. Meta is well-known for having performed some key acquisitions related to hardware, but also to software (e.g. The most bullish of them is, of course, Meta.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Microsoft Research has devised two novel methods for more realistic haptic feedback on virtual reality controllers. The wealth of powerful haptic hardware on the market is one of the main reasons why flight and driving simulations are already so effective in VR. They call it NormalTouch and TextureTouch.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

First Windows mixed reality dev headset ships, dive into the virtual world via Xbox, high-end VR gets more affordable, Rogue One used VR to direct scenes, the investment & funding wrapup, and much more… FIRST WINDOWS MIXED REALITY HEADSET SHIPS LATER THIS MONTH. HIGH-END VIRTUAL REALITY JUST GOT MORE AFFORDABLE.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Project Alloy from Intel is a prototype VR headset with important new features from one of the world’s most influential tech companies, and we’ve just tried the first hands-on demo of the hardware at CES. Unlike the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, no outside hardware, sensors, or cameras are needed.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The future is AR and MR, smart glasses and headsets that blend real and virtual worlds. With an ever-increasing focus on frictionless hardware, vendors will try to turn XR wearables into the next smartphone, ushering in a similar computing revolution.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 31, 2021

Some weeks ago, he has bought a Tundra HDK , which is basically a Hardware Development Kit to create your objects that can be tracked by a SteamVR system and has played around with it for a while. Small Package Size simplifies industrial design of tracked objects 3×3 Chip Scale Package, 1.61mm x 1.61mm 9-bump WLCSP, 0.5mm pitch package.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 17, 2017

VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. What’s unclear is just how you’ll be able to interact with the virtual worlds and objects produced inside these headsets.

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JULY 24, 2017

Facebook and Oculus are insistent that 2017 is all about content; we won’t see any new hardware released in the remaining five months of the year. Are Microsoft’s Mixed Reality headsets any good? Microsoft seems like the wild card in VR right now. Can we expect a cut in the near future? If not, it could be disasters.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As another year hurtles inexorably towards Christmas, it’s an opportune time to take stock of how far XR has come so far, and what 2020 might hold in stock for building a virtual world we might actually want to live in. . to develop the world-mapping capabilities that will take us a step closer to the Matrix.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Although MR hardware costs are still relatively expensive, as hardware innovation continues, the space will become more accessible. Instead, people everywhere are beginning to demand more virtual world integration into their physical environments. 2022 is a breakout year for MR hardware and software.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Ridding our headsets of the cable would mean deeper immersion and physical freedom within the virtual world. IMR has developed an algorithm and hardware that enables wireless transmission and streaming of VR video over the leading wireless standards.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Much like the Microsoft Hololens the user is looking at the real world and the device overlays virtual objects and avatars into your view so they appear to be part of the real world. Later a prerecorded video showed a woman in a small virtual world complete with a pet dog.

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