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RealWear Partners with ‘Video Enhancement Software’ Firm

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Founded in 2007, Sweden-based Vidhance specialises in software that improves video quality in devices, including smartphones, AR wearables and small sensors. Earlier this year , RealWear started shipping its Navigator Z1 smart glasses, described as the ‘world’s most advanced’, intrinsically safe head-mounted wearable.

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Big XR News From Apple, Mozilla, Vodafone and RealWear

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Vodafone also shared plans to create a HyperRealityHub+ variant connecting multiple users for shared immersive experiences using Wi-Fi 7 and 5G, aiming to improve interactions across various verticals. The solution also included high-edge AI capabilities and Vodafone apps within the Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform.

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The New Age of Learning Science with Virtual Reality: A Literature Review

ARVR

In fact, computational photography researcher, Steve Mann, invented “wearable computing” in 1980 (Interaction Design Foundation, 2019). That person becomes part of this virtual world or is immersed within this environment and whilst there, is able to manipulate objects or perform a series of actions.” (“What is Virtual Reality?”,

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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

” Not a month later and the company was seeking four additional hires with immersive tech talent , including a ‘VR/AR Programmer’ Then there was Apple’s hiring of Doug Bowman , Director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech, and an influential figure in the world of virtual reality academia.

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Sixteen Years of Second Life Landmarks: A Trip Down Memory Lane

Ryan Schultz

My oldest Second Life avatar, with the legacy name of Heath Homewood, was created on March 20th, 2007, which means that in a couple of weeks he will be sixteen years old! And yes, I can blame a work committee at my university library for falling down that particular rabbit hole; more details here in a blogpost I wrote in 2017.)