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Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro: A Tale of Two Headsets

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Both Apple and Meta revealed highly anticipated headsets in the last seven days. Meta’s seemingly hasty announcement of the Quest 3 seems to have been timed to come out before Apple’s announcement of the Vision Pro. Apple reported over 10 million pixels per eye, but did not release familiar resolution metrics or field-of-view.

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NuEyes Adds Customizable Hand Gestures To Its AR Glasses

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Customize your hand gestures to activate specific visual and haptic feedback experiences. . The sensors are able to identify your left and right hands as well as whether you’re looking at the palm or backside. Gesture controls can be customized through an app to activate menus and can provide visual and haptic feedback.

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ManoMotion Introduces Apple ARKit Hand Gesture Support

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Developers will soon be able to integrate hand gesture control into their projects on the ARKit platform, no extra hardware needed. These motions will allow users to alter digital elements and gesture them anywhere they’d like within their 3D space, opening up an endless supply of potential use-case scenarios. “

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ManoMotion Brings Hand Gesture Input to Apple’s ARKit

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ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they’re integrated their company’s smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit , making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone’s onboard processors and camera.

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#ICYMI: XR Today’s Big News Show on the Apple Vision Pro

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The Apple Vision Pro has made sensational headlines across global media outlets, leading to renewed interest in virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) technologies. “Everyone was even waiting till Apple announced something. He noted that Apple spoke less about XR but rather about spatial computing.

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Big XR News from Ready Player Me, Lenovo, Meta, and Xiaomi

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These included an ongoing row with Apple over advertising and privacy upgrades, regional and transnational restrictions on data and adverts and a spike in overhead costs of 22 percent. Meta’s workforce could see a 13 percent slash in its headcount, following initial cuts of 11,000 workers in November last year.

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How Will Xiaomi’s AR Smart Glasses Square Up with Rivals?

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Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023 , the new device includes a trove of innovative features such as a “retina-level” electrochromic adaptive display, lighting adjustment, Snapdragon Spaces tethering, and hand tracking, among others.

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