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Facebook Surges in U.S. Patent Rankings Due to Mounting AR Strategy

Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2020

Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC. Amazon Technologies Inc. Of the many granted, here’s a few of the most interesting AR/VR patents we’ve found: Beamsplitter assembly for eye tracking in head-mounted displays. Depth mapping with a head mounted display using stereo cameras and structured light.

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Big News from Altspace VR, Apple, Disney, Lloyd’s, and the US Justice Department

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Recently, Microsoft entered an extended partnership with OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, to expand the tech solution to business clients. Recently, Microsoft and Amazon cut back roughly 10,000 employees, and Meta dismissed approximately 11,000 people. Apple Teases Reality Pro Specs, Disney/Sony Partnership On Monday, Apple Inc.

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Augmented Reality and Hearables: Where the Two Technologies Meet

ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

Generally, there are two types of AR solutions — marker-based augmented reality and markerless (sensor-based) augmented reality — that help developers merge content into the camera feed of a smartphone or head-mounted display. For example, in 2019, Amazon extended Alexa features to pair with headphones and earbuds.

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Apple Mum on AR/VR for iPhone 7, but Here’s How We Know They’re Still Working on It

Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Yesterday Apple held a keynote presentation to update the world on their latest products. It’s too early for Apple to jump into the AR/VR game. That much was made clear on stage at the company’s latest keynote where they revealed the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch Series 2. Acquisitions.

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How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.

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XR Goes Mainstream at MWC 2024 – Event Roundup

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MARCH 4, 2024

The Vision Pro bring Apple’s branding into the space and, with it, many eyes. At the event, AWS collaborated with Proto Holograms to showcase a new system powered by Amazon Bedrock. This system uses holographic AI avatars displayed on a large-scale kiosk. MWC 2024 was a valuable insight into the mainstream XR market.

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How Will Xiaomi’s AR Smart Glasses Square Up with Rivals?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023 , the new device includes a trove of innovative features such as a “retina-level” electrochromic adaptive display, lighting adjustment, Snapdragon Spaces tethering, and hand tracking, among others.

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Tech’s new “Digital Gods:” humans will soon be deeply integrated with tech

Robert Scoble

JULY 23, 2020

Qualcomm’s head of AR/VR says not just that it’s a great book (so do dozens of other reviewers on Amazon) but that it’s a “must read” to understand the 2030s and what is about to come next. Early versions are named Apple Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Facebook Portal.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. Of course, anybody who has a warehouse can be hugely benefited, because you take the functionality of that pad, the barcode, the RF gun, and you put it all in a head-mounted display. That’s the beginning. Alan: Interesting.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. Of course, anybody who has a warehouse can be hugely benefited, because you take the functionality of that pad, the barcode, the RF gun, and you put it all in a head-mounted display. That’s the beginning. Alan: Interesting.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important. So you can actually use Amazon, Alexa to help you with stuff. And for those of you want to learn more about it bynorth.com. Stefan: Yeah.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important. So you can actually use Amazon, Alexa to help you with stuff. And for those of you want to learn more about it bynorth.com. Alan: It really is.

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AR Controllers Gesture Control Head Mounted Display

Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important. So you can actually use Amazon, Alexa to help you with stuff. And for those of you want to learn more about it bynorth.com. Alan: It really is.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. The consumer electronics companies like Apple and Samsung and to some extent Google and Microsoft, along with companies like Amazon, are jumping nto healthcare.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford's Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. The consumer electronics companies like Apple and Samsung and to some extent Google and Microsoft, along with companies like Amazon, are jumping nto healthcare.

Machine Learning

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. The consumer electronics companies like Apple and Samsung and to some extent Google and Microsoft, along with companies like Amazon, are jumping nto healthcare.

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Virtual Reality Pulse

Facebook Surges in U.S. Patent Rankings Due to Mounting AR Strategy

Big News from Altspace VR, Apple, Disney, Lloyd’s, and the US Justice Department

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Augmented Reality and Hearables: Where the Two Technologies Meet

Apple Mum on AR/VR for iPhone 7, but Here’s How We Know They’re Still Working on It

How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

XR Goes Mainstream at MWC 2024 – Event Roundup

How Will Xiaomi’s AR Smart Glasses Square Up with Rivals?

Tech’s new “Digital Gods:” humans will soon be deeply integrated with tech

Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford's Dr. Walter Greenleaf

Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

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