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How to stop Spotify from sharing your data, and why you should

Mashable VR

It sounds like the setup to a bad joke, but the wildly popular music streaming service in fact collects, stores, and shares reams of seemingly mundane user data, adding up to an intrusion that's much more than just the sum of its parts. There's no need to passively hand over your valuable personal data free of charge as well.

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FORM’s Premium Goggles Introduce AR To The Swimming Pool

VRScout

This data is then layered over the goggle’s lenses, offering users unobtrusive access to data before, during, and after their sessions. I competed in two Olympic Games: 2004 and 2012,” added Scott Dickens, Director of Strategic Partnerships at FORM. “At Image Credit: FORM. “I Image Credit: FORM. “I Featured Image Credit: FORM.

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AR Glasses: Technology With Potential for Consumers Too?

ARPost

This was certainly the case of Google Glass back in 2012. Many argued that Google Glass was too expensive and sought to meet a non-existing need. Over at Google, the AR glasses project didn’t die completely. At the same time, the capability of the device to record constantly raised serious privacy concerns. Guest Post.

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Augmented Reality May Be The Future, But It Still Has Major Limitations

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Underkoffler has been trying to make the vision of the 2002 film Minority Report , where actor Tom Cruise uses “data gloves” and gestures to control a transparent computer, into a reality. He founded Oblong in 2006, and launched Mezzanine for enterprise collaborators in 2012.

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Positional tracking comparison: Lenovo Mirage Solo vs Vive Focus

The Ghost Howls

I know, it was not a test with precise quantitative data but was perfectly ok to give me the idea of how the tracking drifted over time. I also tried to go upstairs and downstairs and everything continued working, even in outdoor conditions, so kudos to both Google and HTC. Here you can see me walking back and forth on the terrace.

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‘Pokemon GO’ is Now Back to the Top of the iPhone Grossing Charts

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Pokémon Go is once again the top-grossing iPhone game in the United States, according to data from Sensor Tower and App Annie. The Google Maps-powered augmented reality experience has players tracking down digital monsters along the streets and walking paths in the real world. Pokémon Go doesn’t top the Google Play Android app store.

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Breaking Down Facebook’s XR Road Map

AR Insider

Facebook reportedly buys data from other companies in places it can’t collect. Machine learning algorithms for avatars will use tracking data from our eyes, mouths, and bodies. FWIW, Google had also partnered with Luxottica but never shipped a more fashionable version of Glass.]. Real IDs are the best way to tie it all together.