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The Pico 4 VR Headset Is Here To Shake Things Up

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With four well-placed SLAM cameras around the thin frame of the HMD (head-mounted display), the Pico 4 allows for high-precision tracking and mapping of the surrounding environment while maintaining a stylish appearance. Pico will feature a dedicated video app that supports TikTok.

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Cloud Streaming Coming Soon to Varjo Reality Cloud

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Chances are, everyone reading this has streamed digital content like music, video, even games. Reducing hardware requirements is something of a holy grail for the XR industry that typically requires head-mounted displays – and, often, head-mounted computing. Varjo, NVIDIA, and Amazon Join Forces.

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Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Right

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Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 2. Nearly 30 years ago, They Live introduced optical head-mounted display (OHMD) in the form of special sunglasses that show you the underlying messages being advertised to you (and aliens… lots of aliens). That is correct!

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NGCodec Closes $8M Series A Investment, Aiming to Make Low Latency Cloud-based VR a Reality

Road to VR

NGCodec , a cloud video processing company creating low latency codecs for video and interactive VR, announced the closure of an $8 million Series A funding round, bringing their total funds to $15.9 Investors in the most recent funding round include Belmore Capital, Xilinx and the National Science Foundation.

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Augmented Reality and Hearables: Where the Two Technologies Meet

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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. Additionally, engineers train Deep Learning algorithms to accurately detect markers in live video data.

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Smartphones gain PC-strength VR capabilities via new codec

VRWorld

NGCodec, a company that specializes in developing algorithms, silicon logic and FPGA implementations for cloud video processing, this week announced the availability of their potentially transformative cloud-based encoding technologies via the Amazon AWS Marketplace. The company’s RealityCodec acts as a low-delay H.265/HEVC

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XR Goes Mainstream at MWC 2024 – Event Roundup

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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. Users can also interact with immersive video calls, social media, and gaming applications. AWS is also continuing its forward momentum in the XR space.