Road to VR

JULY 15, 2018

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. San Diego, Fashion Valley. San Francisco, Westfield San Francisco Centre. Connecticut.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2017

Microsoft is showing some commitment to the idea of Windows Mixed Reality (formally known as Windows Holographic) with not just a single headset, but with five headsets. Back in February, Sony announced that they sold 915,000 PlayStation VR headsets since it launched in mid-October, while Microsoft focused on their HoloLens MR headset.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Announced just last week, Microsoft’s Surface Studio all-in-one computer has been met with excitement and touted as an example of the company’s new approach to innovation. Microsoft says Surface Studio is made for designers and creators. SoundStage. The Night Cafe. Gnomes and Goblins. Space Pirate Trainer. Audioshield.

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Cats and VR

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The following month, the company would go on to release the following statement “We are now in discussions with third parties to develop a sustainable solution to continue development and growth for the future,” Well it looks like we may now have an idea of who one of those third parties were as Microsoft has acquired the popular Social VR platform.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 27, 2021

I n 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. cities, starting with San Francisco. Back to the issue of timing and underlying tech (a gating factor for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D in 2006), a force multiplier for all of the above may be 5G. Force Multiplier.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 26, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO, August 26, 2021: ARtillery Intelligence has released a new report that projects headworn AR revenue to grow from $1.6 In addition to Apple, Microsoft has already begun to accelerate the headworn AR market. New Study Projects Headworn AR Revenue to Reach $17.7 Billion by 2025. billion in 2020 to $17.7

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In order to do this, Sion teamed up with the minds at COFFEE Labs, high-tech marketing strategists that have worked with everyone from Microsoft and Medtronic to Ketel One and Adidas.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Microsoft has confirmed that development kits of VR headsets for their Windows Holographic platform are in the works and will make their debut at GDC 2017 in March. Today Microsoft confirmed that VR headsets from major manufacturers are set to launch in 2017.

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Upload VR

MAY 17, 2024

UploadVR Henry Stockdale Before flying out to San Francisco, Don hopped in the Dune Ornithopter and flew over Arrakis trying to complete rescue missions in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Unfortunately, he failed to complete the grueling final mission and the desert takes the weak.

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VRScout

JUNE 15, 2019

Originating from a San-Franscico-based pop-up developed in 2018, The Unreal Garden is a combination of art and technology, fusing entertainment with augmented reality, projections, and soundscape technology. It’s just a shame the limited FOV of the gen 1 Microsoft HoloLens made the experience so restricting.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 6, 2019

To help them do this, winners will receive a share of the $750,000 in funding, and optional technical support from Microsoft, including mixed-reality coaching, mentorship and technology access and training, as well as the opportunity to be featured across Microsoft marketing channels. and James L. Knight once published newspapers.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JUNE 20, 2022

Users of the new system can manage their minted content and trade blockchain-based assets across the San Francisco-based firm’s Customer 360 service, which will also include fraud protection, carbon offset monitoring, and sustainable blockchain technologies. ” Zoom, Microsoft Team up for VR Video Conferencing.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 27, 2017

This week, Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Reactor in San Francisco —the flagship hub for the tech giant’s efforts in mixed reality (MR). “We are at the threshold of the next revolution in computing,” Liz Hamren, corporate vice president of Microsoft Devices Marketing, wrote in a blog post.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Spatial , a team of 3D Design and AR/VR experts based out of New York and San Francisco, today unveiled their cross-reality collaboration platform after two long years in stealth. Cross-reality collaboration arrives as Spatial reveals holographic teleportation through augmented reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

XR World Reacts to New Unity Runtime Fees Unity Technologies has reportedly backtracked on the controversial fees it introduced last week, triggering a public outcry from the developer community, with many Unity developers slamming the new fees as unfair, prompting the San Francisco-based firm to rescind its announcement partially.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. As of November 2020, they’re hiring for both New York and San Francisco positions. Venture capital investment in augmented reality and virtual reality hit $4.1

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2019

” SEE ALSO OpenXR Standard Ratified, Microsoft, Oculus, & Others to Release First Implementations. To date, the company had raised $15.8 The post Scope AR Secures $9.7M Series A to Develop AR Training & Remote Assistance Tools appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Today Microsoft revealed the Halo: Recruit experience, launching on October 17th for Windows VR headsets. I got to go hands-on with the experience during an event today at the company’s San Francisco developer hub.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. cities, starting with San Francisco. Force Multiplier Back to the issue of timing and underlying tech (a gating factor for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D in 2006), a force multiplier for all of the above may be 5G.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Representing most of the VR industry’s core hardware and software makers, NVIDIA, AMD, Valve, Oculus, and Microsoft were the initial members of the VirtualLink Consortium. This week at the XRDC conference in San Francisco, HTC announced that it had opted to join the group in support of the VirtualLink connection standard.

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VR Game Critic

MAY 23, 2016

When Google introduced its Google Glass smart glasses four years ago, it turned to Glass-sporting sky divers buzzing a San Francisco convention center, Glass-adorned models at a glitzy fashion show and a Twitter campaign to notify early "Glass Explorers" of their luck in snagging a pair.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 14, 2019

Apple took us on a surreal walk through San Francisco, looking at digital art on an iPhone . San Francisco looks different through an iPhone XS Max — it’s still a city, but now there are floating balls of fabric, speech bubbles, and words popping out from the trees and buildings. You can read the original piece here. .

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We also like the alignment between AR team-productivity startup Spatial and Microsoft. Besides being a partner and key corporate use case for Hololens, Spatial could advance Microsoft’s application layer (think: MS Office for AR) as it continues to take a full-stack approach to AR. Both companies diverge from ad revenue, as 6D.ai

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Road to VR

AUGUST 28, 2017

Microsoft debuted the lengthily-named “Windows Mixed Reality motion controllers” back in May, but until now we haven’t had a chance to actually try them out. During a recent meeting with Microsoft in San Francisco, I got to try the VR controllers for the first time paired with the Acer Windows VR headset.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Announced during the main press briefing at Microsoft’s event held in San Francisco, Intel will be bringing a ‘Windows Mixed Reality experience’ for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. This forms part of a multi-year technology partnership between Intel and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It was really interesting to see Microsoft pivot towards enterprise with the HoloLens and I think it was absolutely the right move for them to make Click To Tweet. And while Portland is by no means a backwater, it’s still not a major tech or immersive content hub like LA or San Francisco either.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Microsoft’s Game Stack team has also taken the same decision , saying: “After a close review of guidance by global health authorities and out of an abundance of caution, we’ve made the difficult decision to withdraw from participating at Game Developers Conference 2020 in San Francisco.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Microsoft is trying to nudge laptop and deskbound computers to interact with the three-dimensional world. Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella, speaking last week at a conference hosted by technology news site GeekWire, said the company simply couldn’t compete effectively with its small market share in the global smartphone market.

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VRScout

JUNE 3, 2018

Finger Food Studios, an XR organization whose clients and partners include Microsoft, Hootsuite, and Cirque du Soleil, was integral in securing $1.4 Now, with our talent pool and proximity to San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland, there’s been a huge uptick in business-to-business development.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

Are you attending XRDC’s AR and VR conference in San Francisco on October 14-15? XRDC is an AR and VR conference that will be held in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Festival Pavilion on October 14-15. Do you follow all the latest tech trends? The XRDC AR/VR Healthcare Report is out now and is a must-read.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

It was well over a year ago that the promise of Xbox streaming to the Oculus Rift was first promised by Phil Spencer during a June 2015 press event in San Francisco. Microsoft runs the Rift natively via its latest Windows 10 operating system. Tagged with: Headset , microsoft , oculus , rift.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

GDC March 20-24th, 2023, San Francisco The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an informative and educational event where attendees can learn all about the newest technologies influencing the gaming landscape. and how XR and AI can work together. There will also be numerous exhibitions and demos to explore.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2019

– – — – – GDC 2019 is being held next week from March 18th to 22nd in San Francisco, CA. Oculus is already confirmed as attending the event but hasn’t said anything about the potential of a new headset being revealed. We’ve reached out to Oculus for comment. Stay tuned.

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MAY 15, 2023

Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages. Steinerman noted that Spaital started as a platform solely available on XR headsets such as Microsoft’s HoloLens and the Magic Leap.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 27, 2019

Through a partnership with Microsoft the foundation is offering a share of a $750,00 pool of cash and the option of technical support from Microsoft, including mentoring in mixed-reality technologies and access to the company’s suite of mixed reality technologies. “Our

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Microsoft is looking to unify manufacturers around using Windows to power mixed reality headsets, with a plan to support HMDs featuring a wide range of specifications. Microsoft at its Windows Hardware Engineering Community event (WinHEC) in Shenzhen, China, also announced a partnership with Chinese VR headset maker 3Glasses.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2017

Last Monday, I walked three blocks uphill on Mason St in San Francisco to the Fairmont Hotel to demo a stealth product that had been touted to me as one of the biggest advancements in XR tech this side of Magic Leap.

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