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Reality Bytes: Apple, Amazon & GM

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We continue the narrative this week with Maher’s look at Amazon Halo, choice picks from WWDC and GM Cruise’s new self-driving conquest. Amazon Halo uses a smartphone’s camera + machine learning to ‘rate’ your posture and recommends a personal fitness plan to fix it. See the quick summary below, followed by embedded video.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.06.13): Apple doesn’t show its AR glasses at WWDC, Meta delays its AR plans, and more!

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Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs?

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billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. A company still in stealth, but with founder pedigree from Apple. Since the launch, they’ve created augmented reality experiences for COVID-19 and California wildfire news stories.

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XR Chipmaker GravityXR Completes pre-A Fundraiser

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The San Jose, California-based company’s chips are used for bionic visualisations in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) kit and offer multi-sensor interfaces, high resolution and frame rate displays as well as enhancement technologies.

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

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Why Facebook and Amazon have joined the race to bring computing to your face. — Facebook and Amazon each discussed computer glasses at launch events this week. — Amazon’s approach is to get a lightweight product out now, while Facebook is promising advanced technology in a few years. Apple (ecosystem) 2.

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These are the wireless earbuds that are truly worth your money

Mashable VR

In 2007, two researchers at the University of California, San Diego decided to study the likelihood of knot formation by tumbling a piece of string inside a plastic box. IMAGE: Amazon. 169 from Amazon. IMAGE: Amazon. Apple AirPods Pro. 249 from Amazon. IMAGE: Amazon. from Amazon. IMAGE: Amazon.

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The Latest Big News on SIGGRAPH 2023, NVIDIA, Varjo, Vicon, and Brilliant Labs

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Here are a few top takeaways from the event, complete with key summaries of what took place in California’s largest city, Los Angeles. However, companies like Amazon, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, and BYD leveraged the platform to develop digital twins, virtual simulations, and other systems to utilise the groundbreaking platform fully.