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XR Today Guide: What is Augmented Reality?

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Google, Apple, and other map programmes offer this functionality to users. Smart glass manufacturers and solution providers like Vuzix, Google, Nreal, RealWear, Lenovo, Magic Leap, and others offer full-spectrum devices capable of agile use cases.

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VR’s Killer App May Be Full-Body Codec Avatars

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Arguably, the 2009 James Cameron movie Avatar is the highest profile example of crossing that chasm in movies for extended periods of time as it presented human-like digitized characters which no longer distracted most viewers. That’s kind of like an existential requirement of this technology.”.

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One call to change my life, and another to redefine Spatial Computing

Robert Scoble

Thought I’d give you a little detail behind what brought 20 people together, and offer the community to come together to define, for Wikipedia, what Spatial Computing is (Magic Leap has been popularizing the term, but we think it is bigger than just their form of augmented reality glasses). More on the definition in a bit.

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

XR for Business Podcast

You know, I watched your 2019 keynote from AWE again, and put on these these welding glasses that you had back in 2009. When you when you think of all of the technologies we have with Hololens and Magic Leap and we have all these amazing technologies for spatial computing. I think Magic Leap calls it the Magicverse.

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

XR for Business Podcast

You know, I watched your 2019 keynote from AWE again, and put on these these welding glasses that you had back in 2009. When you when you think of all of the technologies we have with Hololens and Magic Leap and we have all these amazing technologies for spatial computing. I think Magic Leap calls it the Magicverse.

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