The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Finally after China and United States, also India has entered the AR race with the launch of the Jio AR glasses. The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (FIT) together with various partners from industry including Apple, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Son y has confirmed the release and official adoption of H.266/Versatile

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XROM

MAY 5, 2024

In this context, the IoE Research Center for Virtual Reality and Haptics at IIT Madras has released a groundbreaking whitepaper on AR/VR/MR and eXtended Reality (XR) in India. Guiding efforts and investments into these technologies becomes imperative to ensure India's significant presence in this space.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2023

Groups like Microsoft are leveraging a collapsing military contact to keep its IVAS device lineup alive for further funding, and HTC VIVE took note to explain the importance of enterprise end-users in discussion with the World Economic Forum. Microsoft Begin IVAS 1.2 Testing Microsoft may be fighting for Hololens.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Microsoft is going to release a database of synthetic faces. Microsoft is going to release soon FaceSynthetics, a big database of 100,000 synthetic faces, free to use for academic and research purposes. Indian VR professional (and my friend) Eddie Avil has written an article highlighting the best XR startups in India.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2023

Pegatron has recently moved its operations abroad to India and North America, among others, to diversify its production facilities globally. Pegatron opened its second factory in Chennai, India, to reportedly manufacture Apple iPhones and “diversify production away from China,” according to Reuters.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 27, 2023

The news comes amid a massive wave of layoffs across the tech industry, with Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, and many others launching a second round of job cuts. Additionally, it has backed women’s empowerment movements in India to boost the number of female XR executives in the subcontinent’s economy.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

India and U.S.-based The collaboration platform is device agnostic (so you could use a Microsoft Hololens while communicating with someone wearing an Oculus Rift), and the B2B company is focusing on the training and education space.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

AUGUST 25, 2023

After having a quiet first half of 2023 in terms of XR, Microsoft is starting to grow its emerging immersive technology promise by combining its upcoming MR services alongside the firm’s genAI investments to innovate workplace communications. It opens MRTK3 to further investment by a broader range of users and hardware developers.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Epson India (@IndiaEpson) October 17, 2022. Companies such as Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Siemens, Google, Amazon, Shopify, and many others will join the two-day gathering to showcase their latest products, concepts, and visions for the future of immersive reality. Moverio smart glasses are changing the ways we work and learn.

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XROM

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 3: The Department of Tourism, the Government of Maharashtra, and the Tech Entrepreneurs Association of Mumbai (TEAM) signed an MoU in June 2023 for the groundbreaking 'Mumbai Megapolis Metaverse', to showcase ongoing infrastructure developments and envision the transformation of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (..)

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

Huge companies like Facebook and Microsoft are throwing vast sums of money at their attempts to build, and therefore define, the metaverse. But beyond it being a term for the digital, persistent, and highly immersive virtual worlds we will become used to, what it actually is – or will be – is up for debate! BSc or M.A. in Game Design.

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XROM

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Sameer Raje, General Manager and India Head, Zoom Video Communications, in a conversation with TNIE, said, new offerings are on the cards as the company is working on virtual reality and augmented reality to enable smooth collaboration in work-from-home as well as hybrid setting.

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AllThingsVR

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

and Kabaddi tournaments in India. Before that, he worked for Microsoft as the tech director on HoloLens and Kinect. Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed but Intel tells me that it is acquiring VOKE’s technology, talent and existing business, which included broadcasting NBA games in the U.S. Read more on GeekWire.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 23, 2023

trillion – more than the combined economic output of China and India combined. To discuss how this is going to happen – and how businesses and organizations can make sure they don’t miss out – I was recently invited to take part in a panel discussion hosted by Microsoft. AI, on the other hand, could generate up to $15.7

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Whilst they attempt to solve for India, things are moving fast back in Silicon Valley. This in crease in wireless capacity will be facilitated with Jio’s India-made 5G equipment and Edge capabilities. The Jio Glass is perhaps a bold attempt in the right direction to help kickstart the consumer adoption of smart glasses in India.

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VRWorld

MAY 10, 2017

National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Science and Technology, at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and at institutes of higher learning such as Temasek Polytechnic Singapore and India Institute of Technology, Bombay.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Twitter co-founder and outgoing CEO Jack Dorsey threw in the towel earlier this week, announcing he’d immediately be succeeded by former Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal. Dorsey was scant on details explaining his departure, noting only that he believed it was time for the company to move beyond its founders. News of… Read more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

With what’s going on from Project Tango and Microsoft, there are definitely big players in this space. Feature films go to China, they go to India, they go everywhere. Microsoft and Facebook have talked about inside out tracking. Zhang: Multiplatform, multiple form factors, that’s very important. It’s very expensive.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I'm a Microsoft master trainer, so I do a lot of work with Microsoft technology. I, myself and my friend Alex Johnson in India and Stephen. I mean, I was a distinguished educator. I do a lot with Apple technology. So I needed something that was kind of broader to encompass all of those things. So yeah, that's where I'm at.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I'm a Microsoft master trainer, so I do a lot of work with Microsoft technology. I, myself and my friend Alex Johnson in India and Stephen. I mean, I was a distinguished educator. I do a lot with Apple technology. So I needed something that was kind of broader to encompass all of those things. So yeah, that's where I'm at.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 20, 2024

The report notes that the forecasted uptick hinges on various market leaders, including Google, Sony, Apple, Samsung Electronics, Microsoft, HTC, Oculus, Magic Leap, Blippar, and Upskill. However, Evolve Business Intelligence explains that China, Japan, South Korea, and India are “key markets” for AR/VR growth and adoption.

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CraneMorley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The SoCalGas instructor and field technician work together to engage the class in hands on learning by giving them a bird’s eye view of a natural gas meter set assembly procedure through the Microsoft HoloLens and its “head up – hands free” capability, streamed live to the class using the Microsoft Remote Assist and Teams applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire. And what’s great to do, with it being the global summit, is we’ve got speakers this year that are coming from Africa, and India, and Asia, and Germany and– you know, we’re doing a European summit next year.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire. And what’s great to do, with it being the global summit, is we’ve got speakers this year that are coming from Africa, and India, and Asia, and Germany and– you know, we’re doing a European summit next year.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire. And what’s great to do, with it being the global summit, is we’ve got speakers this year that are coming from Africa, and India, and Asia, and Germany and– you know, we’re doing a European summit next year.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Over the years i have seen a few lists of Top 50 XR Influencers, but the curators of those list always overlooked China/India/Asia's XR Industry. Just for Context the worlds current population is 7 Billion, India & China's Collective population is 2.7 He also Hosts XROM the 1st of its kind AR/VR focussed #Podcast from India.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 16, 2023

With tech giants including Microsoft, Google and Meta pouring their apparently limitless resources into the technology, we can expect equally game-changing innovation in 2024. Electoral Interference In 2024, we will see leadership elections in many countries, including the USA, UK and India.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 3, 2024

India and China. The AI Safety Challenge During discussions around security, Microsoft principal AI researcher Kate Crawford drew attention to the complexity and opaqueness of many AI systems, making it difficult to understand how (and when) they may make mistakes. Having them here is essential,” he said. “If

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

I always refused to have an Alexa in my house because I know that what I say may randomly be sent to some Amazon offices in India where a person listens to my worlds and checks if the AI has detected well what I’ve said, with a clear violation of my privacy. Who decides what is legit and what not? And what about the ongoing training?

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