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ARtillery Briefs: 3 Spatial Predictions for 2020

AR Insider

ARtillery Briefs is a video series that outlines the top trends we’re tracking, including takeaways from recent reports and market forecasts. See the most recent episode below, including narrative takeaways and embedded video. The first 2020 prediction involves the question on everyone’s mind: Apple AR glasses.

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A History of Haptics: Electric Eels to an Ultimate Display

HaptX

I was in that headspace when I first held a vibrating video game controller—this was around 1999—and I’d been deeply immersed in the writings of media theorist Marshall McLuhan, who wrote a lot about touch. So we conceptualized ‘haptic media’ fairly broadly, enough that it includes devices like Apple Watch along with Q*bert arcade cabinets.

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How Hollywood Has Predicted VR in Movies

VRScout

Knowing they stole video game designs from him, arcade bar owner Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) keeps trying to hack into his former employer’s system to prove what they stole from him. Head mounted display: Fitting the mold of a headset that Apple would produce, Johnny dons a sleek chrome arc that covers from forehead to nose.

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Delivering Digital Meatballs in AR, with IKEA’s Martin Enthed

XR for Business Podcast

If you take the IKEA catalog, then it's much, much, much less, because most of the time we also do video sessions in those. And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. I keep seeing these videos pop up of people doing occlusion in their living rooms and stuff like-- man! But it's a lot of 3D.

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Delivering Digital Meatballs in AR, with IKEA’s Martin Enthed

XR for Business Podcast

If you take the IKEA catalog, then it's much, much, much less, because most of the time we also do video sessions in those. And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. I keep seeing these videos pop up of people doing occlusion in their living rooms and stuff like-- man! But it's a lot of 3D.

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Delivering Digital Meatballs in AR, with IKEA’s Martin Enthed

XR for Business Podcast

If you take the IKEA catalog, then it's much, much, much less, because most of the time we also do video sessions in those. And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. I keep seeing these videos pop up of people doing occlusion in their living rooms and stuff like-- man! But it's a lot of 3D.

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We hardly knew ye: 9 dating apps and sites that died

Mashable VR

Facebook tried again with Sparked, a video speed dating app that launched last year. If "video speed dating" doesn't sound that enticing to you, don't worry — it didn't to many others, either. Hater's Twitter hasn't been updated since 2018, and as of publication Mashable couldn't find it in Apple's App Store.