XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

According to the regulators, Meta launched a “campaign to conquer VR” in 2014 after buying out VR headset manufacturer Oculus. Microsoft Injunction Regarding the injunction, US regulators also filed similar complaints against Microsoft as it aims to buy out Activision Blizzard in a historic $68 billion USD deal.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Apple was initially slow to provide a path forward for cloud gaming apps from Google and Microsoft, which had previously been outlawed on the App Store. ” Facebook VP of Play Jason Rubin.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 14, 2022

At the connect event last year, Facebook officially rebranded as Meta, diverting the company’s vision from the social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to the Oculus brand of virtual reality (VR) hardware. ” The memo also said that Meta managers “cannot allow someone to be net neutral or negative for Meta.”

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2016

The first of these workshops happened at the University of Washington on Tuesday, May 24th, and I was there to cover how some of these discussions may impact the virtual reality community. See Also: Facebook-like ‘Code of Conduct’ Governs Voice Communication in Oculus Social Alpha.

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Virtual Reality (VR), by contrast, can be published across a wide range of devices (headsets like Oculus Go/Quest and Gear VR, phones, Google Cardboard, WebVR, and much more), is completely immersive, and doesn’t necessarily require a real-time data connection (ie can be run offline). VR is basically totally immersive, if done properly.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. Microsoft with their Hololens 2, they’ve actually moved their Hololens from the devices division of the company to Azure, which is their cloud computing. And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. Microsoft with their Hololens 2, they’ve actually moved their Hololens from the devices division of the company to Azure, which is their cloud computing. And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Remember that Oculus is going to release Infinite Office and an AR SDK , so Valve had better replying to this move. Google tried again to make its platform revive with the Mirage Solo , but even this headset has never been successful , and the HTC Vive Focus and the Oculus Quest took the standalone market in its place.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. Alan: Microsoft with their Hololens 2, they've actually moved their Hololens from the devices division of the company to Azure, which is their cloud computing. And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

We do a lot of work with Microsoft in helping serve their customers across a variety of use cases. At Oculus, they said 10 years. Jamie: They can find us in Seattle, Washington. Jamie: Right. With Sprint, I'll just give you kind of a quick introduction to how that project came into being, which was was really interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

We do a lot of work with Microsoft in helping serve their customers across a variety of use cases. At Oculus, they said 10 years. Jamie: They can find us in Seattle, Washington. Jamie: Right. With Sprint, I'll just give you kind of a quick introduction to how that project came into being, which was was really interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there's a bit of-- with the launch of the Oculus Quest it'd starting to get locked down a lot more, they're starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform. You have Apple, with ARKit.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

We do a lot of work with Microsoft in helping serve their customers across a variety of use cases. At Oculus, they said 10 years. Jamie: They can find us in Seattle, Washington. Jamie: Right. With Sprint, I'll just give you kind of a quick introduction to how that project came into being, which was was really interesting.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

For example, Microsoft recently announced a deal worth approximately $500 million with the U.S. Oculus, one of the biggest names in VR, refers to this in its Health and Safety manual. For example, Otolith Labs, of Washington DC, is developing a prototype device that sits behind the VR user’s ear.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Roblox CEO hints at the Oculus Quest as a future platform. And among these platforms onto which the game could be ported in the future, he has also mentioned the Oculus Quest. Some intriguing news on the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites. News worth a mention.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

Some people denigrated early efforts, like the VR headsets that HTC and Oculus produced, as a fad, comparing it to the Segway or earlier 3DTV attempts. He told us about research into pain that VR pioneer Tom Furness, and his teams at the University of Washington, had done.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Microsoft’s contract with the U.S. Based on HoloLens 2, Microsoft’s specially-built Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) has faced multiple challenges since being awarded the Army contract in 2019, including poor field testing results due to reliability and ruggedness issues. Despite recent improvements in the 1.2

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2022

VR had a great Christmas, and in particular, Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. One of the biggest endorsements for XR in the last years has been the $22B contract that Microsoft signed with the US Army to provide a modified version of HoloLens 2 glasses that should “improve the lethality” of troops. Funny link. Funny link.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Mistakes in doing everyday business led to a $500 million verdict against Facebook’s Oculus division in a legal battle with ZeniMax. ZeniMax sued Oculus, Facebook, and well-known virtual reality leaders John Carmack and Palmer Luckey for misappropriating trade secrets after Carmack left ZeniMax’s id Software and went to work at Oculus.

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