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Spatial Beats: Snap, Google & Digilens

AR Insider

This week, we dive into Snap’s new AR Spectacles, Google I/O takeaways and Digilens’ new reference frames. Epic tried to establish that Apple is an “essential utility,” meaning infrastructure that can be uncompetitively withheld, like a bridge, but it just wasn’t landing. See his books here. We were not confused.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.17): Apple Glasses are sleek, UE5 rises hype, NVIDIA releases CloudXR SDK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. Apple glasses are coming. The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Apple is really good at selling stuff.

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Augmented Reality Software: ARKit vs ARCore vs Vuforia vs AR Foundation in 2021

ARVR

Let’s take the Disney coloring book. A few years ago, Disney created technology that projects coloring book characters in 3D. Disney is using augmented reality to bring coloring books to life The Weather Channel is now using technology to illustrate the weather and its effects. ARCore is a Google SDK. How to Use ARCore?

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

When you’re “wearing” in Vernor Vinge’s 2006 book Rainbow’s End, contact lenses and computers woven into clothing serve up an assortment of competing realities and overlays. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.20): Oculus ready to manufacture the Quest S, Pico doubles-down on 3DOF, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. In the book The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx, available on Steam , it is possible to discover much interesting information about Alyx. Read about Google experiments with AR and wearables.

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How I got started with virtual reality (and you can, too)

The Ghost Howls

Years later, in 2014, my previous classmate Gianni Rosa Gallina called me because he wanted to create a startup about all the fancy things we were discussing in that period, in particular Google Glasses and my obsession about seeing virtual objects on top of the real world. Also reading books helped me in improving my writing skills.

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Mark Zuckerberg and I are confusing the market about VR and AR and the future of all computing: here’s why we need to stop doing that

Robert Scoble

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. Literally everyone in the industry other than Magic Leap and Apple uses Qualcomm’s spatial computing tech stack). They can’t look nerdy like Google Glass did.

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