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Big XR News from Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Sony

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Microsoft HoloLens 2 Receives Final Major Update This week, Microsoft announced the final opportunity to purchase HoloLens 2 before its discontinuation in December. The first is WinGet integration, which enables users to download Microsoft Store apps after the storefront’s retirement.

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Microsoft Now Hosts Free HoloLens Demos Across US & Canada

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Microsoft Stores across the US and Canada are now hosting free HoloLens demos, so you can finally see what the hubbub is all about. Here’s the full list of the participating Microsoft Stores: UNITED STATES. Miami, Dadeland Mall. Chandler, Chandler Fashion Center. Scottsdale, Scottsdale Fashion Square. Jacksonville, St.

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XR Training Offers Major Boost to Learner Outcomes, CWRU Exec Says

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The Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Miami continues to showcase enterprises across the virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) space. She educates medical schools and universities around the world about her institution’s immersive application, which runs on Microsoft’s HoloLens platform.

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Sony Acquires Beyond Sports to Expand Metaverse Solutions

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” Rival firm Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard to expand its portfolio of solutions in a historic $68 billion deal. This has greatly expanded Microsoft’s future ambitions for metaverse technologies such as cloud computing, digital avatars, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and others.

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Metaverse Standards Forum Incorporates as Independent Consortium

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Some of the top members of the Forum include IKEA, Alibaba, rooom , Adobe, Huawei, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Sony, Unity, and many others. IGS 2022 Miami: XR Today Expert Round Table rooom explained its latest updates in an interview on the sidelines of the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Miami.

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Snapdragon AR2 to Empower AR Devices, Qualcomm Says

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The Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami concluded on Wednesday, where some of the biggest players in the tech industry gathered to explore the future of Web3 technologies. XR Today: What have been your biggest takeaways from the IGS 2022 Miami? Brian Vogelsang : My biggest takeaway has been the excitement across the industry.

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5G Networks Crucial to Metaverse Future, AT&T Says

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Telecoms have played a massive role in facilitating the expanded use of unified communications apps such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, and multiple social media platforms. XR Today spoke to Andrew Bennett, Assistant Vice President for Mass Market 5G Products at AT&T on the sidelines of the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 in Miami.

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