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HoloLens Optics Chief Joins Google Amid Reported Push for Upcoming Google AR Headset

Road to VR

Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, has left the company to take on the role of Director of XR Engineering at the recently formed Google Labs.

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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

AR Insider

The tech industry is looking to replace the smartphone — and everybody is waiting to see what Apple comes up with. I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. Apple didn’t invent the smartphone — companies like Palm and Blackberry had been selling them for years. But Apple’s not the only company working on these products.

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AR 101?—?A brief summary (Part 1)

ARVR

Augmented Reality Definition Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that overlays digital content (graphics, text, audio, and video) on real-world images using mobile devices, PCs, or glasses, which have an integrated camera and specialized software (Papagiannis, 2017). Evolution of Augmented Reality (Craig, 2013) by fernanda rodríguez.

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Big XR News from Meta, Deloitte, Snap, and Virtuleap

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Next year, Apple will debut the Vision Pro following years of hype, and Microsoft will also start rolling out its industrial Metaverse services. The report also noted that early adopters and consumers of emerging technologies will likely see their creations reemerge as enterprise productivity solutions.

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Apple’s Tim Cook Sees Opportunity In AR, But It ‘Will Take Some Time To Get Right’

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Google , Intel, Facebook and Microsoft have all either already begun or announced significant VR initiatives in the past 12-24 months. One name is notably absent from that list: Apple. Despite the occasional patent or acquisition , Apple has yet to make any concrete statement concerning its commitment to VR.

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

AR Insider

— Amazon’s approach is to get a lightweight product out now, while Facebook is promising advanced technology in a few years. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems. Apple (ecosystem) 2. Microsoft (enterprise) 4.

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Korean 3D spatial data tool startup Urbanbase closes $11.1M Series B+ round

TechCrunch VR

Urbanbase, founded in 2013 by chief executive officer and a former architect Jinu Ha, has now raised $20 million (approximately 23 billion won) in total. Big tech corporations, ranging from Facebook, Intel to Microsoft, are targeting to move in the area. million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up.