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Google Will Soon Begin Testing Its AR Prototypes In Public

VRScout

Keep a look out for Google’s AR glasses next time you’re out for a stroll. This past January, reports began circulating that Google was in the development of its own augmented reality (AR) glasses that enable wearers to blend virtual graphics with the real world. Image Credit: Google. For more information visit here.

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Google Advances its Geo-local AR Play

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Though it’s a mature product with a dominant market share, Google Maps’ roadmap resembles that of a younger, nimbler product. And its latest update is to make Live View more searchable (it is Google after all). Google’s years of user search data have informed its choice to emphasize these business types.

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XR Trends to Watch In 2022

ARPost

In this article, we will explore seven XR trends that have been taking shape over the past year to be the top trends in not only 2022, but within the long-term future of AR, VR and MR. Machine Learning. Google’s real-time face and body tracking; Source: Google. See Also: “Facebook” Is now “Meta” and Other News From Connect 2021.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Google). Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world. Another cool announcement has been the one of Immersive View for Google Maps.

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Google Lens Reaches 8 Billion Monthly Searches

ARVR

Last week, Google held its annual I/O developer conference?—?and Buried in all the keynote action, there was also a notable nugget for AR: Google Lens is now used for 8 billion visual searches per month. To put that in perspective, it’s still miles from the 2 trillion+ total annual Google search queries. in Google fashion?—?is

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Data Dive: How Scalable are AR Lenses?

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Data Dive Going more granular, what kind of reach can be expected for individual lenses or lens-based brand campaigns? We’ve tracked and aggregated several examples from Snap for this week’s Data Dive. Google , Pinterest , Shopify and others are likewise in the game. link] Originally published at [link] on March 7, 2022.

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Google announces Google Wallet for Android

Mashable VR

Google would quite literally like to replace your physical wallet. At Google I/O 2022 on Wednesday, the company's annual developer's conference, Google announced a brand new feature for Android devices: Google Wallet. The new Google Wallet interface. State IDs in Google Wallet.coming soon.

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