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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

AR Insider

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Apple’s working on solving this problem, too, according to a report in Nikkei Asia. Companies like Ikea, Target, and Amazon have already used ARKit, mostly for placing virtual furniture in a room to see if it fits.

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Discover Latin America’s XR ecosystem with Oscar Cartagena

The Ghost Howls

Your best bet is Amazon and dealing with the international shipping charges. So even if we managed to entice a big vendor to come and sell their hardware here, we would still need to send our hardware back to US/EU/ASIA to get it fixed and/or checked out. It’s a royal pain to get hardware in Chile. There’s a lot going on over here!

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The HoloLens Application that Wants to Save eCommerce Retailers Millions

VRScout

Much has been made of the use of robots to increase efficiency in warehouses —with web retailers such as Amazon announcing significant investment in that area. Students from Georgia Tech are working with Microsoft and Walmart to increase efficiency in warehouses using Mixed Reality.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.28): The debate on Facebook continues, Microsoft acquires Zenimax, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Personally, I think that this trend that every country wants to keep its data inside its boundaries in understandable, but it risks also creating a collection of walled gardens, as it is happening with USA vs China). Shadow Creator , one of the best AR/VR manufacturer in China, has teased at AWE Asia its new upcoming AR headset.

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7Invensun is a Chinese company that wants to disrupt the VR eye tracking sector

The Ghost Howls

if you are a developer, you can also obtain users’ eye movement data and analyze users’ attention, interest points, and other psychological information. So developing an eye-tracking algorithm to accurately track eyes and a method to deal with a large amount of data is quite difficult. The eye tracked by the aGlass product.

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Staking Claim to a Digital Plot in AR, with SuperWorld’s Hrish Lotlikar

XR for Business Podcast

Pokemon Go is putting digital objects around you anywhere, Foursquare’s the data elements of that. And we have a big data strategy at SuperWorld. Alan: Yeah, it was the Amazon Prime show, Jack Something Or Other. You’re kind of freely providing your data to those assistants that and they are mining that data.

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Staking Claim to a Digital Plot in AR, with SuperWorld’s Hrish Lotlikar

XR for Business Podcast

Pokemon Go is putting digital objects around you anywhere, Foursquare’s the data elements of that. And we have a big data strategy at SuperWorld. Alan: Yeah, it was the Amazon Prime show, Jack Something Or Other. You’re kind of freely providing your data to those assistants that and they are mining that data.

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