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Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Microsoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. Over these past three and a half years, Microsoft has been listening to their customers, claims HoloLens inventor and Microsoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman as he took his turn on stage. Microsoft HoloLens 2 / Image Credit: Microsoft.

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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

Sony

Sony Unreal Gaming Entertainment

The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. New important events have been canceled because of the coronavirus…. Who knows….

Magic Leap

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”.

Magic Leap

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Xenoma Mixes AI with AR / VR, Launches e-Skin Clothing for Gesture Tracking

VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

The SDK supports Microsoft HoloLens and Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which will represent the default form for Windows Mixed Reality , Windows 10 Creator’s Edition applications. The company has also added new features to their software to interface with the Microsoft HoloLens on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).

Machine Learning

Machine Learning AR Unity Japan

The XR Week Peek (2021.09.20): Quest 2 Pro leaks, Xiaomi smartglasses, Half Dive headset, and more!

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Diver-X Half Dive is an interesting headset from Japan. Last Call / Full Saga Review) More info (Microsoft Flight Simulator) More info (Squingle) More info (Half Life 2 VR Mod) More info (Shock Troops) More info (Mafia VR Mod) More info (Gunman Contracts?—?Mod Yes, you’ve read everything well. It has 4.5DOF.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. 14- Kai Liang. 25- Pankaj Raut. 29- Clyde Dsouza.

Augmented Reality

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Delivering Digital Meatballs in AR, with IKEA’s Martin Enthed

XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

I think Microsoft is calling them "world anchors" and I think Google has called them "VPS points" or-- everybody has a solution for it today or is a solution for it. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. And I think that it's in Japan now, that we are trying to rent out furniture.

AR

AR Eye Tracking Tools Course

Delivering Digital Meatballs in AR, with IKEA’s Martin Enthed

XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

I think Microsoft is calling them "world anchors" and I think Google has called them "VPS points" or-- everybody has a solution for it today or is a solution for it. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. And I think that it's in Japan now, that we are trying to rent out furniture.

AR

AR Eye Tracking Tools Course

The XR Week Peek (2021.12.27): a great Christmas for Quest 2, Rec Room is worth $3.5B, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually. This is a huge pity: CES 2022 won’t be cool as we expected… but we still hope to see interesting XR announcements from there.

Unity

Unity Oculus Virtual Reality Gaming

The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In Japan, new PSVR bundles will include an adapter in the box, while in the West the adapter won’t be included, but it will be given for free to existing PSVR users. More info (PSVR bundles in Japan) More info (PS Camera adapter will be given for free). Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR.

HTC

HTC Oculus Conference China

Delivering Digital Meatballs in AR, with IKEA’s Martin Enthed

XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

I think Microsoft is calling them "world anchors" and I think Google has called them "VPS points" or-- everybody has a solution for it today or is a solution for it. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. And I think that it's in Japan now, that we are trying to rent out furniture.

AR

AR Eye Tracking Tools Course

The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

Sony

Sony Magic Leap Gaming Unreal

The XR Week Peek (2024.10.15): Meta Avalanche cloud rendering appears on the store, cheaper Apple Vision may cost $2000, and more!

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Let’s see… More info (The specifications of Orion from the TESTED video) More info (Porting games to Orion is difficult) More info (Karl Guttag’s analysis about Orion) Epic Games is already envisioning Unreal Engine 6 In an interview with The Verge, Tim Sweeney talked about the future plans of Epic Games.

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Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

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Xenoma Mixes AI with AR / VR, Launches e-Skin Clothing for Gesture Tracking

The XR Week Peek (2021.09.20): Quest 2 Pro leaks, Xiaomi smartglasses, Half Dive headset, and more!

Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

Delivering Digital Meatballs in AR, with IKEA’s Martin Enthed

Delivering Digital Meatballs in AR, with IKEA’s Martin Enthed

The XR Week Peek (2021.12.27): a great Christmas for Quest 2, Rec Room is worth $3.5B, and much more!

The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

Delivering Digital Meatballs in AR, with IKEA’s Martin Enthed

The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The XR Week Peek (2024.10.15): Meta Avalanche cloud rendering appears on the store, cheaper Apple Vision may cost $2000, and more!

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