Mashable VR

MARCH 1, 2022

As Russia's war in Ukraine continues, the information war is picking up online. Meta Facebook and Instagram are certainly no strangers to disinformation campaigns stemming from Russia. Meta has blocked Russian state-run media, such as Russia Today and Sputnik, in the EU and in Ukraine. What is Meta doing this time around?

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Digital Trends

MARCH 4, 2022

Intel has announced that it will stop shipments to Russia and Belarus, effective immediately. It joins Apple, AMD, and others that have already done the same.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 10, 2022

-based tech products and services are disappearing from Russia. The latest in line are all payment-based Google and YouTube services in Russia, as the country's war with Ukraine continues. This has numerous consequences for users of Google services in Russia. Free apps and games are still available for users in Russia, however.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 2, 2022

Russia's vice prime minister singled out Microsoft and Sony in a message, though it appeals to game development companies and esports platforms in general.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 8, 2022

Microsoft said that it had intercepted yet another string of Russian hacking attempts , this one coming from military spies targeting a wide range of think tanks, media orgs, and government institutions across Ukraine, the European Union, and the United States. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 7, 2021

Both China and Russia were reportedly behind two cyberattacks last year at the European Medicines Agency that compromised documents related to covid-19 vaccines and treatments. Read more.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 12, 2022

The company also drew attention to its Russia-specific information flags, introduced in 2018, which appear under videos to designate when content is linked to government funding. SEE ALSO: How to keep up with the news from Russia and Ukraine. The panel reads, "funded in whole or in part by the Russian government.".

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2021

And I would find it an understandable choice: Vive has always been incredibly successful among companies and it would have a sense for it to thrive in the B2B niche until it becomes strong enough to exit and try to compete with much bigger companies like Facebook, Microsoft, or Valve. They [Microsoft] did this same s**t with HoloLens.”.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 20, 2022

In a corresponding move, Microsoft joined Epic in making the same pledge: Net profits from Fortnite sales on Xbox platforms will go to the same spread of charities. Of the four charities Epic and Microsoft are supporting, three are led by the United Nations: U.N. Tweet may have been deleted. Children's Fund (UNICEF), U.N.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Being sentenced to prison for playing a video game sounds pretty rough, but apparently it can happen to you if you’re a kid in Russia. Read more.

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ARVR

MARCH 4, 2021

Menu AR , a startup based in Russia, offers the ability to also see a dish on your table in 3D, allowing you to visualize the texture of different dishes, their ingredients and size. A number of startups offer this great AR visualization tool. © Ronen Horovitz.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 10, 2022

Tech companies are continuing to take action as Russia's war in Ukraine rages on. Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. Search engines like Google and even Microsoft's Bing have taken actions against disinformation, too.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Last week I left you with one funny link about cows using VR headsets in Russia. During the presentation of HoloLens 2, Microsoft called on stage Trimble to present its safety solution to use the latest Microsoft AR headset safely in industrial environments. Microsoft now sees VR as a high priority for Flight Simulator.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Generative AI is one of the world’s top three geopolitical risks this year — right after Russia and China — according to a report released last month by the Eurasia Group , a US-based risk consultancy. (Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.)

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Road to VR

JANUARY 23, 2017

IARC ratings are already used for all Google Daydream VR and Microsoft Hololens AR apps. The Oculus Store adds to the list of participating storefronts, which includes Google Play, the Nintendo eShop and the Windows Store.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

Air New Zealand is one airlines provider that is testing how the Microsoft Hololens can help improve in-flight customer service. Russia-based company Antilatency has raised a $2.1M If you’re confused as to what this means regarding the boundaries HTC and HTC Vive, well– I am too. Apparently the $1.4B

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VRScout

OCTOBER 10, 2016

HARDWARE: Oculus Touch controllers are FINALLY coming, and they sure feel smooth and intuitive (you won’t have to break your immersion with that silly bundled Microsoft Xbox controller anymore). The post The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review appeared first on VRScout.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The video shows a pretty clunky device, and the website seems made in Microsoft Word… but this does not mean that the underline technology can’t be interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

And I can’t help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc. So business is growing stronger and stronger. And there’s a good reason for that.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

And I can’t help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc. So business is growing stronger and stronger. And there’s a good reason for that.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

And I can't help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc. He's a friend, and he's also a physicist and an ex-director of Yandex from Russia, that's a leading Internet search engine.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

The game was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on 19 May 2015, and received critical acclaim. It is the sequel to 2014's Watch Dogs and was released worldwide for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows in November 2016. Watch Dogs 2. Mirror’s Edge Catalyst. Mass Effect: Andromeda.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 13, 2022

When it finally launched its first product after years of delays, secrecy and hype, tech watchers balked at a device which failed to deliver on many of the claims made by the startup’s eccentric founder Rony Abovitz and instead made largely incremental gains over the competing Microsoft HoloLens which was unveiled years earlier.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 29, 2022

The technology's origin story isn't well-documented, but it's believed to have emerged at Microsoft in the mid-1990s. We recommend picking up some separate antivirus software for that kind of protection, even if you're on a Mac.) Hold up — are VPNs legal?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft to tighten safety measures in Altspace VR. After a similar announcement performed by Meta last week, this week Microsoft has announced the tightening of the safety measures inside its social VR platform Altspace VR. Removing them removes lots of potential problems from Microsoft.

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GizModo VR

JULY 6, 2021

According to a new investigation from Bloomberg , cyber spies connected to the Russian government recently hacked into the Republican National Committee—though the RNC has denied that their systems were breached in this way. Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2020

I can say that I have been very lucky to work with a group of talented people from many countries (Italy, Russia, France, etc…) on this project. For the VR part, the idea was to create something like a big virtual concert with animations and visual effects that are not possible in real life and that everyone could join from home.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Anyway, the door is not closed completely: he added to the interview “ I think we might get there [eventually], But yeah, that’s not where our focus is.” Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida has just burnt completely Microsoft tweeting “we oftentimes work hard to make things that no customers are asking for them ”. I love him. Some XR fun.

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In fact, Microsoft and Nvidia are already developing metaverse platforms for collaborating on digital projects. This is a trend to watch carefully in 2023 as countries like the US, UK, China, and Russia pour money into developing quantum computing technology. We’ll also see more advanced avatar technology in the new year.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Dairy farmers in Russia started testing Virtual Reality on their dairy cows. Taken together, this could signal challenging times ahead for the start-up and possibly have a negative knock-on effect on the AR industry as a whole. Cows Like VR Too. HoloLens Army.

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