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Big News from Altspace VR, Apple, Disney, Lloyd’s, and the US Justice Department

XR Today - Big XR News tag

Following last week’s theme of layoffs across the tech sector, this week continues the unemployment trend as influential groups reassess the space and US Courts aim at Google. Recently, Microsoft entered an extended partnership with OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, to expand the tech solution to business clients.

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XR Goes Mainstream at MWC 2024 – Event Roundup

XR Today - VR Headsets tag

At the event, AWS collaborated with Proto Holograms to showcase a new system powered by Amazon Bedrock. This system uses holographic AI avatars displayed on a large-scale kiosk. During the event, AWS VP Matt Wood conducted a live broadcast, allowing him to interact with a group of attendees identified as MWC 2024.

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Apple Mum on AR/VR for iPhone 7, but Here’s How We Know They’re Still Working on It

Road to VR

Given the size of the AR/VR market today, and its practical applications for a broad groups of users, it’s too early for the company to execute that plan. Apple has a number of head mounted display patents, including one which shows a headset that would dock with a mobile device, and another for an augmented reality display.

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Augmented Reality and Hearables: Where the Two Technologies Meet

ARPost

Generally, there are two types of AR solutions — marker-based augmented reality and markerless (sensor-based) augmented reality — that help developers merge content into the camera feed of a smartphone or head-mounted display. For example, in 2019, Amazon extended Alexa features to pair with headphones and earbuds.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important. But we have a human-computer interaction group and we tested so many different aspects of control. This is a really great experience."

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important. But we have a human-computer interaction group and we tested so many different aspects of control. This is a really great experience."

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important. But we have a human-computer interaction group and we tested so many different aspects of control. This is a really great experience."

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