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Explore Tokyo Using AR Technology Powered By Apple Maps

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Tokyo, Japan is just the latest major city to receive official support for AR walking guidance. It was back in 2021 that Apple first introduced AR (augmented reality) navigation to its Apple Maps app, allowing iOS users to navigate their real-world environment using virtual overlays. Image Credit: Alta Distance.

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Samsung Files Trademark for ‘Galaxy Glasses’ AR/VR Headset

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” According to a recent Washington Post interview with TM Roh, the president and head of Samsung’s mobile experience business, an upcoming Samsung XR device is “getting there, but we’re not too far away.” Roh told WaPo that the XR headset’s chipset is going to be “a strategic collaboration with Qualcomm.”

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Practice Your Carving Skills On This AR Turkey

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The Washington Post is here to make carving your Thanksgiving turkey easy this holiday season. Thankfully, the fine folks over at The Washington Post are here to save our sorry butts with a 3D-model bird complete with animated instructions on where to cut, separate, and debone your own turkey.

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Apple Revives AR Smart Glasses Push with New Patent

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Reports have revealed that Apple could potentially ramp up work on a pair of augmented reality (AR) smart glasses that could support the release of the company’s Vision Pro headset. With the proposed smart glasses, Apple fans may tether the devices to their iPhones similarly to others like its Watch and AirPods wearables.

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Bobak Tavangar (Brilliant Labs) on the Power of Combining Open Source AR Hardware and Multimodal AI

The AR Show

Bobak Tavangar is the co-founder and CEO of Brilliant Labs, a company creating an open-source AR glasses hardware platform and pairing that with powerful generative AI models to help you engage with the real world. Bobak studied at George Washington and Georgetown universities before completing a graduate degree at Cambridge University.

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Ways to Participate in Black History Month Through XR

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AR and VR Experiences From VictoryXR. However, they still found time to create one VR and one AR Black History Month experience. However, they still found time to create one VR and one AR Black History Month experience. Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, Madam C.J. Rosa Parks, and others.

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Meta Narrowing Focus At Reality Labs To AR, VR, Horizon & Neural Wristband

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Those are roughly defined as: Horizon and its avatars. AR headsets. By the time that you have neural interfaces there’ll still be many more people using phones and computers than using VR or AR devices, even if it’s initially invented in order to be a kind of input mechanism for augmented reality.” VR headsets.

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