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FORM’s AR Swim Goggles Now Work In Open Waters

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“The introduction of the FORM goggles has been a game-changer for swimmers, and now with GPS and heart rate tracking available in open water, the goggles will fundamentally change the way we train outdoors,” added professional triathlete and Ironman Champion Lionel Sanders. Image Credit: FORM.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.10.03): Quest 3 leaks, Lenovo ThinkReality VRX launch, and more!

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At the launch event, Lenovo talked about the “Enterprise Metaverse” and talked about use cases like training, virtual collaboration, design, and engineering. Bytedance is trying to expand also in Japan , launching the Pico 4 with the support of many influencers. The device is available on Amazon for $379. News worth a mention.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.14): Meta lays off 11,000 people, Apple works on some sort of “metaverse”, and more!

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The console can also be inserted in a special case (a much improved version of Google Daydream View) to become a VR headset. He was able to test an AR system by Red6, a company that aims at making Army pilot train themselves with dogfighting and other similar operations using AR opponents instead of real ones. It’s very cool.

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How Will AR Transform Advertising?

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8th Wall recently partnered with Amazon Sumerian on a WebAR ad experience where, with just a click of a banner ad, an AR experience placed a 3D Spiderman into your space for you to interact with directly in your mobile browser. The hope is that the interactivity and training will lead to increased purchase conversion.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.04.12): HTC and Pico are ready to launch new VR headsets, and more!

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The great displays of the Reverb already made it useful for those who performed prototyping and graphics, and with these sensors that can track the user , it can become very relevant also for psychology, training, marketing studies, and many other sectors. Is Google collecting the pieces for an XR headset?

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

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Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed. Image from Amazon).

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes.