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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. Companies like Ikea, Target, and Amazon have already used ARKit, mostly for placing virtual furniture in a room to see if it fits. On its website, Microsoft touts manufacturing, retail, and healthcare as primary use cases.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.01.20): Oculus Go price cut down to $150, Mojo Vision teases AR contact lenses and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). New troubles for Oculus Rift users.

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Interview with Robert Scoble about Oculus Quest 2, Apple Glasses and more!

The Ghost Howls

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Officially Announced

VRWorld

GTC is the largest event of the year for developers, data scientists and executives in the fields of artificial intelligence, virtual reality and self-driving cars. GTC is a great opportunity for developers and data scientists to sharpen their skills. Attendance has grown fourfold since the first event in 2009.

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Getting started with Augmented Reality (AR)

ARVR

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Computer Vision uses SLAM to receive visual data from our physical world and use this visual input to understand and interact with the environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. Accompanying this will be persistent, stateful geographic Assets and Data, some static, others interactive with behaviors of their own.

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The Down-Low on What You Need to Know (To Be Competitive in XR), with SuperData’s Carter Rogers

XR for Business Podcast

As their chief analyst, Rogers specializes in turning data into actionable intelligence, tailored to the needs of businesses who are just starting to explore the space. In today’s episode, he chats with Alan about what all the data can mean. You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com.