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Facebook Surges in U.S. Patent Rankings Due to Mounting AR Strategy

Road to VR

Amazon Technologies Inc. Of the many granted, here’s a few of the most interesting AR/VR patents we’ve found: Beamsplitter assembly for eye tracking in head-mounted displays. Depth mapping with a head mounted display using stereo cameras and structured light. Intel Corp. Facebook Inc.

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How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

AR Insider

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. More importantly, this aligns with the timeframe that followed its 2014 Oculus acquisition. billion for a representative baseline of pre-Oculus spending.

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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

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. See Also: 3 Moves Oculus is Borrowing from Apple’s Marketing Playbook. Acquisitions.

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From Racing Games to Impaired Driver Simulators in VR, with Talon Simulations’ Brandon Naids

XR for Business Podcast

And we're leveraging virtual reality displays that prevent you from needing to have a full projector dome and full scale replica cockpit, since that's all now in the head mounted display. And we're utilizing basic controls that simulate the different interfaces that you would have. And it will be as real as you can get.

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From Racing Games to Impaired Driver Simulators in VR, with Talon Simulations’ Brandon Naids

XR for Business Podcast

And we're leveraging virtual reality displays that prevent you from needing to have a full projector dome and full scale replica cockpit, since that's all now in the head mounted display. And we're utilizing basic controls that simulate the different interfaces that you would have. And it will be as real as you can get.

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From Racing Games to Impaired Driver Simulators in VR, with Talon Simulations’ Brandon Naids

XR for Business Podcast

And we're leveraging virtual reality displays that prevent you from needing to have a full projector dome and full scale replica cockpit, since that's all now in the head mounted display. And we're utilizing basic controls that simulate the different interfaces that you would have. And it will be as real as you can get.

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How Will AR Transform Advertising?

AR Insider

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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