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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

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Now, let’s consider the key takeaways related to AR, VR and 360 ° content and review how they will influence the mass market adoption of those immersive technologies. Augmented Reality. At last year’s F8, the key focus was on Messenger and, to a certain extent, Live video. Impact on Consumers.

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Things People Ask You as a Writer Covering XR Technology

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AR, short for “augmented reality”, is the superimposing of digital information or images over the view of the world around you, usually as viewed through the camera and display on your mobile phone. This doesn’t necessarily mean a “digitally rendered” view like we think of video games as being digitally rendered. But, it’s true.

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Adobe To Launch AR Features ‘As Fast As We Can,’ Exec Says

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Between 360 video, virtual reality, and augmented reality, I think augmented reality has much bigger opportunities,” Asher said. Asher wouldn’t provide specifics, but it’s easy to imagine Adobe offering software for editing and creating 3D AR images in apps and video.

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Re-imagining Advertising with Mixed Reality

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Augmented and Virtual Reality Use Cases for advertising and marketing that are possible Today! Photo by Kristian Egelund on Unsplash Augmented Reality is the stuff of science fiction! In this piece, I will focus on the advertising and branding use cases of augmented reality technology that are possible today.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Apple finally talks about VR while taking a (very solid) swing at AR, Walmart will use virtual reality to train employees, you can grow better weed with AR + AI, and Q1 VR headset sales…. APPLE ACTUALLY TALKS ABOUT VR. APPLE TAKES A (VERY SOLID) SWING AT AUGMENTED REALITY. BETTER WEED WITH AUGMENTED REALITY.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.01): Meta still committed to the Metaverse, Jio launches Dive headset, and more!

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More info News worth a mention (Image by Antonio De Rosa) Apple headset in the final sprint of production It couldn’t be an XR newsletter without a mention of the Apple headset! Augmented Reality together with artificial intelligence is going to get crazy. And this will be beneficial for everyone in the field.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.25): new rumors on Apple Glasses, Oculus Quest anniversary, HP Reverb G2 and more!

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Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In the end, technologist Jon Prosser has revealed the main details he knows about the Apple Glasses. Well, on another website, I’ve been able to find someone that reading some Apple’s documents has found pictures of strange colored circular tags that may act as QR Codes for Apple devices.

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