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

The Ghost Howls

Last week, Google delivered its most important event of the year, the Google I/O. Of course, AI has been the star of the show , with the public release of Google Bard and the announcement of a new language model, but there have been also interesting pieces of news about XR.

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Tesla’s data advantage. Can Apple, or others, keep up?

Robert Scoble

I do too, and go even further than she does in studying this industry (I had the first ride in the first Tesla with Elon Musk and had the first video on YouTube of Google’s self-driving car, and have interviewed many in the industry, and also have a Twitter list of people and companies building autonomous cars ). First, some basics.

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How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

AR Insider

For an indexed library of spatial computing insights, data, reports and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. Q4 2014 R&D spend increased to $1.1

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

AR Insider

Up north in Seattle, Amazon announced Echo Frames, lightweight glasses with the Alexa voice assistant embedded in them. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems. Apple (ecosystem) 2. Google (search). Facebook (social) 3.

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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

Talking about a purely digital event, the digital CGI show around the Space Needle in Seattle was surely beautiful. AR is a widely used feature on smartphones now, while smart glasses are slowly growing, waiting for the big shots of 2023 (yes, Apple, I’m looking at you). News worth a mention. Image by Gravity Sketch).

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Pixvana Reveals 10K VR Video Player and Publishing Platform ‘SPIN’

Road to VR

In a mission to make 360 video less terrible, the Seattle-based company has developed a number of technologies since they came out of stealth last December. With Pixvana SPIN, the company claims they can deliver up to 100 megapixel quality within the user’s field-of-view while cutting data delivered by up to 70% overall.

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

XR for Business Podcast

It was the VRARA gathering in San Francisco, and then we went from there to Verizon's head office and we went for a meetup where we learned from Apple and a bunch of other people about what's coming up in virtual reality. and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. Michael: Oh, we have offices in Austin and Seattle. for your camera.

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