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The Current State Of The VR/AR Patent Landscape

VRScout

Microsoft HoloLens 2 patent. Image Credit: The United States Patent and Trademark Office. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) only grants patents after a rigorous, time-intensive, and thorough application review process. Image Credit: Sony. Image Credit: Sony/USPTO.

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The best AR and VR news from CES 2022

The Ghost Howls

PlayStation VR 2 Logo (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). The tracker is expected to launch early in the year in the United States starting at $129. Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. Qualcomm and Microsoft have announced a partnership to push together the next-generation lightweight AR glasses.

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Microsoft Patents New MicroLED Display for HoloLens 2 Successor

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Microsoft has reportedly filed a new patent to develop a microLED display solution to enhance virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) experiences. An Apple-Microsoft-Meta micro-OLED Melee? ” The initial patent continues, “The display substrate includes an array of micro-LEDs forming individual pixels.

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The Media and Entertainment Metaverse: What to Expect

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Busch Gardens Virginia , one of the United States’ top theme parks, created an immersive roller coaster ‘The Battle for Eire’ featuring emerald mask VR headsets from the Taiwanese tech giant. As media and entertainment companies explore possibilities inside the metaverse, there are three key use cases to remember.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.08.02): Facebook creates Metaverse group and prepares to launch its smartglasses, and more!

The Ghost Howls

If I had known people could like it, I would have not made it in 5 minutes with Microsoft Word, lol. It is very interesting that because of this recall, Facebook shared some data about how many facemasks were affected : it says 4M in the United States, around 170K in Canada. Sony has sold 10M PS5 worldwide.

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

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Case Western Reserve University, a world-renowned medical institution, joined the event to reveal how it leveraged Microsoft’s MR tools by combining them with its educational software platform. Farrow stated that her medical school, one of the top 25 institutions in the United States, developed a new facility in 2014.

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US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay at home

TechCrunch VR

Microsoft and Sony will no doubt make up gains at the end of the year with their next-gen consoles. Also, turnips. We need more video games that are social platforms first, games second. Matter of fact, the Switch’s success actually helped supplement losses of other platforms.

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