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XR Talks: What Will 5G Do For AR?

AR Insider

“The big web-scale players like Google or Amazon [don’t] have data centers every 300 kilometers. In fact, historical evidence tells us that in a similar time frame, we went from 2G brick phones circa 2000 to the iPhone 3G in 2008. But the phone companies do have that distributed network.” More from AR Insider….

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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part IV: Bose

AR Insider

After examining Amazon , Microsoft , and Google , it’s time to zero in on Bose. Right now it’s limited to head nod and shake but you can imagine voice integrations in the future… you can also access the raw data to do things like custom gestures.”. Head Start. But what’s everyone else doing? Hardware Blitz. Next up: Apple.

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What Does Tech History Tell Us About AR’s Future?

AR Insider

And it wasn’t till a year later in 2008, that there was even an app store…. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. Sometimes we forget that this cycle took a few years. “We

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OpenSim active users hit all-time-high for the holidays

Hypergrid Business

Hypergrid Business Data.). Kitely Market data). The three oldest grids in OpenSim that are still active today are OSgrid , founded in 2007, 3rd Rock Grid , founded in 2008, and AnSky , founded in 2009. The raw data for this month’s report is here. Total OpenSim virtual land area in standard regions over time.

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The AR Show: What Does Tech History Tell Us About AR’s Future?

AR Insider

And it wasn’t till a year later in 2008, that there was even an app store…. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. Sometimes we forget that this cycle took a few years. “We

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. Location is at the heart of the AR Cloud. So what’s different now?

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. So I think the phones will have depth sensing cameras on them, being able to capture the real world, and put it into context, and overlay data on it. Back in 2008, 2009.

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