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Spatial Beats: 2020’s Top Ten

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This week, we dive into the top-ten tech stories of 2020. Now what’s going to happen to the malls Amazon doesn’t want as warehouses? 350 million came in at the last minute to allow a new CEO, Peggy Johnson, from Microsoft, to focus on enterprise business. 2020 showed us a future still arriving, and unevenly distributed.

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Mozilla is Shutting Down Development on WebXR Social App ‘Hubs’

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Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, shuttered most of its web-focused XR development back in 2020. At the time, the company’s web-based social VR app Hubs was spared from the chopping block. Now, after a new organization-wide restructuring, all development on Hubs is set to be wound down in May.

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Power and Responsibility: Highlights from Microsoft Build

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We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what they should do,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in his opening keynote at Build. By 2020, the average person will generate 1.5GB of data a day, a smart home 50GB and a smart city, a whopping 250 petabytes of data per day. Ethical AI.

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6 AR trends to watch in 2020

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In this article I’ll describe the 6 most important AR trends to watch in 2020. Big names such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google are rapidly developing the technology, making it accessible to many industries. Apple and Google played big roles in this. How To Use the ARLOOPA App: A Step-by-Step Guide (2020) 3.

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What Will AR Do for Brand Marketing in 2021?

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With that backdrop, here’s our dialogue with Maher on the biggest trends and value drivers he’s seeing in brand marketing as we close out 2020. There continues to be competition for consumer mindshare from search, social, Amazon, or a brand’s own apps and properties. Click To Tweet. How do you see this playing out?

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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

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All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Companies like Ikea, Target, and Amazon have already used ARKit, mostly for placing virtual furniture in a room to see if it fits. High-end iPhones released in 2020 include advanced Lidar sensors embedded in their camera.

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Will Wearables Pave the Way For AR?

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This is the topic of ARtillery’s recent report, Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. Google is meanwhile motivated toward wearables to maintain direct touchpoints to users. This was the same strategy that drove Google’s Android OS years ago. Warming Up .

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