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USA TODAY’s “Largest AR Launch to Date” Is an Interactive True Crime Exploration

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We talked with Gannett senior director of emerging tech Ray Soto and senior designer of emerging tech Will Austin about how they made the AR tool in line with the podcast’s ethos as well as how they handled respect for the deceased and sensitivity toward viewers. USA TODAY Augmenting a Real Crime Scene.

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Developer Teases AR Functionality For The Apple Watch

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When he’s not delivering expert-level gestures and animations to iOS applications, iOS Design Technologist, Nathan Glitter , is busy sinking his teeth into another budding user experience: augmented reality. Using #ARKit image detection to recognize images displayed on an Apple Watch, showing more information in AR.

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Austin’s Rapidly Growing VR Community

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Does Austin have the largest VR community outside of Los Angeles? I was familiar with Austin, Texas because of SXSW — having attended with my previous employer, Emblematic Group. The VR community in Austin was a bit of a late bloomer compared to other cities. Michael Dell relocated Dell’s headquarters to North Austin in 1984.

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Taqtile Optimizes Manifest iPad Performance

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This Thursday, following Apple’s Vision Pro announcement at WWDC, providers of AR instructional solutions Taqtile introduced optimization updates to its Manifest services on iPad devices. ” Taqtile leveraged Apple’s ARKit and Swift programming language to ensure an iOS-ready, scalable immersive workplace solution. .”

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.13): AltspaceVR shuts down, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Hello everyone from Austin, Texas, where I am attending the SXSW! First of all, it seems that the headset is not a new product, but that Apple has been working on it for 7 years. It seems anyway that for the first time ever at Apple, Cook has this time now given priority to the operations team.

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Ditch the Tape Measure—This App Lets You Make Floor Plans in AR

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With— PLNAR , an app built using Apple’s ARKit and developed by the Austin-based company SmartPicture Technologies—that’s all about to change. PLNAR is available now as a free download in the Apple App Store. AR is very powerful tool that can bridge the gap by providing instant results,” Greff said.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.20): Meta to perform new layoffs, Google Glass to shut down, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I still feel a lot tired because of the jet lag and the little sleep I had in Austin, but this is pretty normal, and in one week or such this feeling should go away. A pretty useless one, like all the rumors about Apple and its glasses. And instead… electronic components… wow, only geniuses at Apple could think about it.

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