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

VRScout

The last big breakthrough we saw in ease-of-use interactivity was the launch of hand tracking and gesture recognition on enterprise and consumer VAR devices. Curious to learn more, I reached out to Joe Pavitt, Master Inventor and Emerging Technology Specialist at IBM Research Europe. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING.

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XR Goes Mainstream at MWC 2024 – Event Roundup

XR Today - VR Headsets tag

Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. Additionally, as Samsung and Google have partnered with Qualcomm, it is reasonable to assume that the device will use the Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, which supports AI-ready wearables.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.25): Google to test AR glasses in the wild, Pico 4 spotted, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Google starts testing its AR glasses in the wild. Google has announced that it is going to start to test the prototypes of its AR glasses in the wild. What is relevant about this piece of news is that Google has just confirmed its strong commitment to augmented reality. More info (Google testing AR glasses?—?Official

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Power and Responsibility: Highlights from Microsoft Build

Tech Trends VR

McQuire points to the fact that this follows similar moves made by Amazon Web Services over the past 12 months, and sees it as a clear statement of intent at gaining developer mindshare against Google ahead of its own developer event, Google I/O which also happens this week. The whole world is becoming a computer Click To Tweet.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.24): Apple opens applications for Vision Pro devkits, Meta may stop the production of Quest Pro, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. The most interesting ones for me are related to hand tacking. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2, Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead. Long story short, this week has been a cemetery.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.01): HoloLens 2 may come in September, Oculus may commercialize a multiplayer LBVR solution, HP Reverb is back and much more!

The Ghost Howls

It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month. VRGO is a special pillow that you can put on your chair so that you can control your movements in the VR game by just leaning your body : e.g. if you learn forward, you can walk forward in the game. VR is an empathy machine, but this is not always the case.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.19): HTC launches Vive Flow, Magic Leap 2 announced, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Vive Flow is a 6DOF headset that works with your Android phone as a 3DOF controller (hands tracking is coming in the future). HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Amazon Glow is a video projector for kids.