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Microsoft to Supply US Army More AR Combat Headsets Following Positive Field Test

Microsoft’s HoloLens-based headset built on contract for the US Army has passed an important round of field testing by soldiers. The company is now set to fulfill a larger order to be used in more rigorous testing slated to take place in 2025. Awarded in 2019, Microsoft’s $22 billion defense contract is aiming to supply the […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

19. September 2023

XR Industry Giants Team up to Save Key Developer Tool

Microsoft, Qualcomm and Magic Leap announced a partnership to “guide the evolution” of the Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK), a cross-platform AR/VR development framework which has now gone open-source. MRTK was a Microsoft-driven project that provided a set of components and features used to accelerate cross-platform XR app development in the Unity game engine. The developing […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

24. August 2023

Microsoft Releases Initial Azure Cloud Rendering Support for Quest 2 & Quest Pro

Microsoft announced it’s released a public preview of Azure Remote Rendering support for Meta Quest 2 and Quest Pro, something that promises to allow devs to render complex 3D content in the cloud and stream it to those VR headsets in real-time. Azure Remote Rendering, which already supports desktop and the company’s AR headset HoloLens […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

26. Juni 2023

Microsoft’s Lack of XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017. Microsoft gained a great […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

22. Juni 2023

Microsoft’s Battlefield AR Headset in Jeopardy After Deep Budget Cuts

Microsoft’s big defense contract that looks to supply the US Army with modified HoloLens AR headsets isn’t going so well. As first reported by Bloomberg, the Senate panel that oversees defense spending announced significant cuts to the Army’s fiscal 2023 procurement request for the device. Microsoft announced last year it had won a US Army defense […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

29. Juli 2022

Hands-on: Magic Leap 2 Shows Clear Improvements, But HoloLens 2 Retains Some Advantages

Magic Leap 2 isn’t available just yet, but when it hits the market later this year it will be directly competing with Microsoft’s HoloLens 2. Though Magic Leap 2 beats out its rival in several meaningful places, its underlying design still leaves HoloLens 2 with some advantages. Magic Leap as a company has had a […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

10. Juni 2022

HoloLens Chief Alex Kipman to Leave Microsoft Amid Misconduct Allegations

Alex Kipman is leaving Microsoft amid what an Insider report alleges to have stemmed from misconduct allegations leveled at the HoloLens co-creator. The report maintains that Microsoft Cloud head Scott Guthrie is planning a reorganization of the departments, as Kipman is set to leave the company in the next two months as a part of transition […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

8. Juni 2022

This Environmental Art Exhibit Is Powered By Mixed Reality

Mixed reality meets environmental awareness. Arcadia Earth is a one-of-a-kind art exhibit that features a wide assortment of multi-sensory technology designed to immerse you in a captivating mixed reality experience while, at the same time, educating you on various ecosystems as well as our impact on the environment, including single-use plastic waste and overfishing. The […]

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VRScout & Kyle Melnick

20. Mai 2022

Hologramm-Doktor: Nasa „holoportiert“ Ärzte auf die ISS

Auf der ISS wird Star Trek Realität: Wie die Nasa mitteilt, „holoportierten“ sich erstmals Mediziner auf die Raumstation. Dazu wurde unter anderem eine Microsoft Hololens Kamera und Technologie des Startups Aexa Aerospace verwendet.

„Der Doktor“ in „Star Trek: Voyager“ ist kein echter Mensch, sondern lediglich ein Hologram. Die Nasa scheint für zukünftige Weltraummissionen ähnliches im Sinn zu haben. Jetzt wurde bekannt, dass bereits im Oktobor 2021 ein Team aus Ärzt:innen und Mitarbeitenden des Weltraumunternehmens Aexa Aerospace der ISS in Form von Hologrammen einen Besuch abstattete. Zwischen R…

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20. April 2022

Report: Microsoft Braces for Negative Field Tests of Military HoloLens

Microsoft is supposedly gearing up to field test its HoloLens-based military AR headset, however a new report contends the company is bracing for impact, as it’s expecting negative feedback from soldiers. Last year, Microsoft announced it had won a United States Army defense contract worth up to $22 billion which would see the development of a […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

15. März 2022