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Jan 2, 2025 | 
xrtoday.com | James Stephen
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published a Google patent application for a smartglasses design that seeks to reduce the amount of light lost from the microdisplay. The Apple IP news blog Patently Apple, which shared the news, described the innovative smartglasses design as centring around a curved thin see-through lightguide with large eyebox.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
xrtoday.com | James Stephen
International Data Corporation (IDC) has found that over 70 percent of global shipments of AR and VR headsets can be attributed to Meta for the third quarter of 2024. The volume of global shipments increased by 12.8 percent mostly off the strength of Meta’s performance, according to the latest information from global market data provider.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
uctoday.com | James Stephen
Microsoft has switched Skype to a monthly subscription-based model instead of its credit-based system. Users are now no longer able to purchase new Skype credit and money already loaded onto an account must be used at least once every six months in order to remain active. The news was not officially announced. Instead, it was inadvertently uncovered when a volunteer moderator on a Microsoft forum informed a user who couldn’t top-up their credit.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
xrtoday.com | James Stephen
Samsung has revealed the first-ever headset code-named ‘Project Moohan’ for use on the new Android XR operating system. Project Moohan will provide a “spatial canvas” for users to explore the world via Google Maps, watch sports on YouTube or plan holidays, and more.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
uctoday.com | James Stephen
Lyte Fiber is combining GOCare’s and Dialpad’s unified communications and contact centre capabilities to improve employee experiences (EX) and customer experiences (CX).
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
uctoday.com | James Stephen
Daisy has modernised Highland Council’s communications infrastructure to guarantee that 100 percent of emergency calls are covered. It provided Highland Council, the UK’s largest authority by area, with RingCentral’s cloud-based unified communications solution, RingEX, to cover 5,000 lines across schools, businesses, and contact centres in the area.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
cxtoday.com | James Stephen
Five9 has launched an ‘industry-first’ Microsoft Teams UC integration that displays real-time presence statuses to Five9 agents and Teams users. With the ability to see whether co-workers are available, it can streamline communications between agents and back-office experts, as they can transfer calls with greater confidence. As a result, the CCaaS provider Five9 points out that customers will ultimately benefit from faster resolution times.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
uctoday.com | James Stephen
Genelec’s loudspeakers were chosen to enhance the “one-of-a-kind” Finnish F1 racing simulator. According to the loudspeaker manufacturer Genelec, technology such as racing simulators plays a “pivotal role” in performance. The Finnish audiovisual engineering company Cave Oy creates simulators designed to give drivers a training environment that reproduces real-life Formula 1 and GT racing scenarios. To do this, it turned to Genelec and a global leader in LED display technology, ‘Absen’.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
xrtoday.com | James Stephen
Lightstorm Vision and Meta have formed a partnership, which sees mixed reality (MR) Meta Quest becoming Lightstorm’s exclusive hardware provider for 3D film and TV productions. XREAL One Series AR Smart Glasses to Take on Ray-Ban Meta and Apple Vision Pro during DecemberWhat is Meta for Education?
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
uctoday.com | James Stephen
The much-anticipated native SMS messaging has now arrived on Microsoft Teams. According to the Microsoft 365 roadmap, simplifying communications with people outside of your organisation that use alternative UCaaS platforms. From February 2025, the feature will be available on desktop and mobile for Microsoft Teams Calling Plan users in the United States and Canada.
