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How artificial intelligence will be used in 2021

TechCrunch VR

billion , got its start supplying autonomous vehicle companies with the labeled data needed to train machine learning models to develop and eventually commercialize robotaxis, self-driving trucks and automated bots used in warehouses and on-demand delivery. The four-year-old startup, which recently hit a valuation of more than $3.5

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The small but mighty Mac mini with M1 chip is back at its lowest price ever

Mashable VR

The Apple-designed processor is meant to provide faster CPU performance along with faster graphics processing and even faster machine learning capabilities. That means the Mac mini learns how you use it so it can improve performance and accuracy. at Amazon (save $129.01. And that's all inside of a 7.7-inch Credit: Apple.

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Who’s building the grocery store of the future?

TechCrunch VR

Amazon’s foray into grocery store technology provides a succinct introduction into the state of the industry. Amazon’s first act was its Amazon Go store, which opened in Seattle in early 2018. When customers enter an Amazon Go store, they swipe the Amazon app at the entrance, enabling Amazon to link purchases to their accounts.

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The best smart fitness mirrors of 2022

Mashable VR

While building a home gym might be easy for folks with extra rooms and garages to spare, not everyone has space to house a treadmill and a million other fitness machines. Most only require a few feet of wall real estate and can be mounted on the wall or used with a stand. That's where smart fitness mirrors come in.

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Digital Twins: XR Today Expert Roundtable

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

A workplace trainee can learn how to use or repair a piece of equipment using a digital twin; some solutions allow trainees to take apart complex digital objects, like an engineer, to see the inner component – saving a lot of time, usually reserved for clean-up.

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Getting started with Augmented Reality (AR)

ARVR

Marker less  — Unlike marker based, it scans the real environment and places digital elements based on geometry. Projection based  — Directly overlays digital projections onto the physical world by making use of varied machine vision technology, often by combining visible light cameras with 3D sensing systems such as depth cameras.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

I mean, that's an industry that's been completely revolutionized by real time 3D and by VR. Because now suddenly you can interact with the objects, you can cognitively so much easier to learn when you can do it immersively with a VR headset. So real time 3D is the next form of communication after video. That's beautiful.

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