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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

The Ghost Howls

I guess this line has been added to the keynote speech because Apple is going to announce its device very soon at WWDC (at least according to the rumors), and Google wanted to show that it’s part of the game, too. It lets you create geolocation-based augmented reality content by positioning it directly into a 3D version of Google Maps.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.01.04): New Year’s Eve parties go virtual, Tundra to offer a Vive Tracker competitor, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Real concerts and public events are not possible anymore, so most of the singers are finding a new way to express themselves and are so experimenting with digital and virtual reality events. Talking about a purely digital event, the digital CGI show around the Space Needle in Seattle was surely beautiful. News worth a mention.

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

AR Insider

At an event in San Jose, California, Facebook introduced its plan for augmented reality glasses, where users will be able to pull up a visual display on top of what’s actually in front of them. Up north in Seattle, Amazon announced Echo Frames, lightweight glasses with the Alexa voice assistant embedded in them. Google (search).

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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: TheWaveVR Raises $4M, Pluto.

AllThingsVR

2) Pluto VR , the Seattle-based virtual reality startup co-founded by PopCap Games co-founder John Vechey , has raised $13.9 Seattle-based Maveron led the round, with participation from Madrona Venture Group of Seattle, Trilogy Equity Partners of Bellevue and other individual investors. Read more here.

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The AR Space Race, Part VI: Amazon

ARVR

Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. It recently announced that it’s rolling out the technology a handful of Whole Foods in the Seattle area (another incubation play). But it’s not alone. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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Making the Invisible Visible in AR, with Curie's Michael Agustin

XR for Business Podcast

They're an augmented reality shopping platform that enables consumers to make better purchasing decisions quickly and visually. So we're looking at big box stores by giving them the powers of augmented reality and enabling all of the same tools that shoppers would typically have online, offline. We're Curie-ous.

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Making the Invisible Visible in AR, with Curie's Michael Agustin

XR for Business Podcast

They're an augmented reality shopping platform that enables consumers to make better purchasing decisions quickly and visually. So we're looking at big box stores by giving them the powers of augmented reality and enabling all of the same tools that shoppers would typically have online, offline. We're Curie-ous.

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