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Google’s ‘Internet-of-Places’ Inches Forward

AR Insider

Facebook wants to be the social layer to the spatial web, while Amazon wants to be the commerce layer and Apple wants a hardware-centric multi-device play. Where does Google fit in all of this? That includes its “search what you see” Google Lens , and Live View 3D navigation. Planet Scale.

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Is Facebook Building a ‘Social Layer’ For the Spatial Web?

AR Insider

So predicting AR’s trajectory becomes an exercise in “ following the money.” ” For Google, investments in AR are to drive search (visual search, mapping). Amazon wants AR for product visualization, pursuant to boosting e-commerce sales and reducing returns. The Social Layer.

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Peloton would be so much better if it let you stream stuff like Netflix and Stadia

Mashable VR

Nothing against exercise or even filling up some of my precious house space with a large and expensive stationary bike. But structured, hosted exercise time isn't what I want when I climb on a machine like this. In fact, the report notes that Peloton's video game, Lanebreak , is powered by Google.

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Creating VR Content With Zero Coding Skills

VRScout

Those unfamiliar with immersive technology have often perceived VR as some form of modern black magic that only highly-trained developers can properly harness. Image Credit: Amazon. Sumerian by Amazon. The Varwin software interface is based on Google’s Blockly visual language. Image Credit: Varwin.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

VRScout

IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI will play a key role beyond hand tracking, and into the world of voice. IBM’s key technology in this area is Watson, their AI assistant. It was a trust exercise.

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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part VI: Snap

AR Insider

Like in our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise, they’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof core businesses where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. The story is similar for Amazon , Microsoft and Bose (kind of), and the 800-pound gorilla in wearables, Apple.

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AR & AI Storytelling Innovations in ‘TendAR’ from Studio Tender Claws

Road to VR

Google’s ARCore technology was used for the augmented reality overlays, the Google Cloud Vision AI API for object detection, as well as early access to some of Google’s cutting-edge Human Sensing Technology that could detect emotional expressions of the participants. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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