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Is Google’s ‘Magic Window’ The Future Of Video Calls?

VRScout

Google’s Project Starline is back and looking better than ever. It was back in 2021 that we first learned about Project Starline, an ambitious technology project from Google aimed at improving remote teleconferencing through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and light field display technology.

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Google Poly Is Shutting Down

VRScout

Google has instructed users to download their personal libraries before June 30, 2021. VR content creators woke up today with a shocking email from Google stating that the company would be shutting down their 3D model sharing platform Google Poly. Google Poly is shutting down!! Um…… WHAT?!?!?!?!

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2021 Predictions: AR Glasses Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary

AR Insider

This was the topic of the latest ARtillery report, Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons; 2021 Outlook. Drilling down into one of the report’s predictions, AR glasses will make progress in 2021… but they won’t reach revolutionary status nor inflect (that could start to happen the following year). Concrete Projections.

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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. Now Kress is back at Mountain View working on Google’s next AR headset.

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Google Reveals Latest Project Starline Prototype, Its Light-field Telepresence Platform

Road to VR

It’s been nearly two years since Google first introduced Project Starline, a telepresence platform designed to facilitate natural-feeling remote communication between two people. Google says that makes the latest prototype “more practical,” and says that select companies are trialing the new version.

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All AR news and announcements from Apple Event 2021

The Ghost Howls

Tim Cook has entered the stage when there was a background on the wall behind him that was the same as the last frame of the introductory video of the event. He looked like coming out from the video itself… it was a moment merging a virtual element to the real stage… we can say it was mixed reality. can’t we?

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Apple Delivers Competitor to Google Lens & Google Maps AR Features in iOS 15

Next Reality AR

Mobile augmented reality for iOS via ARKit, but Apple is borrowing a few pages from Google's playbook and bringing AR directly to iOS 15. Don't Miss: Apple's AR Spaces in Updated Clips App Uses iPhone & iPad LiDAR to Give You New AR Video Powers Live Text will enable iPhone users to point their capture.

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