Some of Microsoft’s biggest missteps over the years have come not from being too late but rather too early, leaving the door open for competitors — especially Apple, it seems… Read More
The tech world is abuzz about artificial intelligence, but there’s still plenty to learn and accomplish in virtual and augmented reality, judging from the projects created by University of Washington… Read More
— Adam Coccari is now director of Intuit Ventures, the new venture capital arm of Intuit, the global financial technology platform company behind TurboTax, QuickBooks and other products. Coccari previously… Read More
The U.S. military is experiencing shortcomings with Microsoft’s customized mixed reality headset, according to reports by Bloomberg and Insider. Internal military evaluations of system field tests this year concluded that… Read More
Now that the metaverse is finally getting real, Magic Leap isn’t playing games. When the mysterious augmented-reality venture was founded back in 2010, the idea was to transform the consumer… Read More
The news: Taqtile, a Seattle-based augmented reality startup that works with enterprise customers for software-enabled job training, raised $5 million to boost hiring and marketing efforts. The tech: The 55-person… Read More
Our guest on the GeekWire Podcast this week, Ashley Stewart, is a Seattle-based senior tech correspondent for Insider who reports on Microsoft and Amazon. She and her colleagues reported on… Read More
Microsoft has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to produce a mixed reality headset called the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) based on the tech giant’s HoloLens technology.… Read More
When Microsoft first unveiled the next-generation HoloLens “mixed reality” headset in February, executives promised a more comfortable and immersive experience that is easier to navigate out of the box. The… Read More
The opening demo at Microsoft’s Build conference was supposed to be a real showstopper, and ultimately it did stop the show — but not in the way that Microsoft, Epic… Read More
Microsoft wants to bring more developers into its ecosystem to build “mixed reality” apps, and Microsoft today announced a Development Edition of the second-generation HoloLens headset to accomplish that mission.… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella defended a $480 million contract to outfit the U.S. Army with 100,000 HoloLens headsets that has drawn opposition from a group of employees who don’t want… Read More
Microsoft today unveiled the second generation of its HoloLens mixed reality headset, along with a surprise cloud-powered camera built on technology created originally for Xbox. The device, which will be… Read More
A group of Microsoft employees called on the company to drop its $480 million contract to outfit the U.S. Army with 100,000 HoloLens “mixed reality” headsets, the latest example of… Read More
Observers expect Microsoft to unveil the next generation of its HoloLens “mixed reality” headset later this month, and a new video posted by the creator of the device added fuel… Read More
King County has been recognized for using Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality device to train operators at a wastewater treatment plant. The Seattle-area county partnered with Microsoft and local tech startup… Read More
Microsoft won a nearly $480 million contract to provide the U.S. Army with 100,000 HoloLens headsets, a major boon for the company’s “mixed reality” division that comes at a time… Read More
The historic island commune of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, France, is a stunning visual display, with its medieval monastery rising up out of the sea. Four hours away in Paris, the… Read More
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Can being in the middle of an opera take your mind off pain? Here at the University of Maryland, scientists are studying the therapeutic value of experiencing… Read More
Today’s featured stories Photos: Graffiti targeting Amazon and Jeff Bezos illustrates animosity toward tech giant in Seattle So much to sea in New York: Microsoft HoloLens a key part of… Read More
New York City’s Times Square is already a bustling and chaotic location when experienced in everyday reality. In augmented reality, the center of Manhattan will become otherworldy, thanks to an… Read More
News Brief: Computer scientists have trained a neural network to transform the action from pre-recorded videos of soccer games into immersive augmented-reality “holograms” you can shrink down onto a tabletop.… Read More
The alarm sounds. A wall of heavy machines begins to rattle, as something has clearly gone wrong. Playing the role of a maintenance engineer at a high tech manufacturing facility,… Read More
GeekWire is spending the week at Microsoft’s annual Build developer’s conference, where the company is pitching its cloud and enterprise offerings and announcing a slew of new initiatives and products.… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Virtual reality has its fair share of naysayers. It’s too expensive, they say. It’s too hard to translate across devices. It makes you sick. Microsoft wants to… Read More
Secretive augmented reality startup Magic Leap finally lifted the veil on its first product this week: Magic Leap One, a portable AR headset system. The company has been prompting major hype… Read More
Plenty of tech companies are seeking to revolutionize how people work, but the ideas are typically limited to office workers. But Microsoft, through its HoloLens mixed reality headset, is zeroing… Read More
A Seattle modeling company filed a federal lawsuit against Microsoft last week, claiming that it “incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses that were never reimbursed” for work promoting… Read More
Imagine a world where headset-wearing flight attendants can instantly know how you’re feeling based on a computer analysis of your facial expression. Actually, you don’t need to imagine: That world… Read More
Microsoft is expanding the network of companies eligible to build mixed reality applications for HoloLens. The new Mixed Reality Partner Program grandfathers in existing HoloLens Agency Readiness partners and also… Read More
