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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. Two new applications have also been added to the headset. The second is the OneDrive PWA application, which enhances cloud-sharing capabilities for HoloLens 2 users.

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Spatial Beats: Zoom, Looking Glass & AR Funding

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This new contract hopes to help with the ongoing military service member suicide epidemic. M contract to provide VR training at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The new Looking Glass Portrait allows users to use their phone to take Portrait mode photos, videos, or 3D models and then display them as a hologram.

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Big XR News from Boeing, ENGAGE XR, Apple, and Meta

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Now the Metaverse is gaining newfound traction from enterprise clients, companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are reinforcing XR as a serious technology for various use cases. To power Athena AI, ENGAGE XR is leveraging OpenAI’s Chat GPT service – now partially operated by Microsoft – the firm is also leveraging Dall.e

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