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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. The headset has been relatively easy to speculate on, seeing as it is the fourth iteration of flagship headsets in a familiar and built-out hardware and software ecosystem. Apple Vision Pro starts at $3,499.” But, could it replace a Meta Quest?

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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. All this with minimal impact to CPU, memory, battery life and without the need for any additional hardware. 2017 has been an absolutely enormous year for augmented reality.

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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. This ranged from user interfaces (UIs), filming, controls, and hardware optimisation.

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Developing the Future of Mixed Reality

Tech Trends VR

The other significant pivot Microsoft made in recent years, adds Zachary, was to move away from being hardware-centered to focusing on the cloud, marketing Azure’s ability to enable what they call ‘The Intelligent Edge’: “Microsoft is the only one of the large players that has actively decided to be a multi-platform company.

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AR Smart Glasses: Expert Roundtable

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XR devices are all over the headlines this month; the release of the Apple Vision Pro has brought spatial computing/mixed reality wearables to the forefront of emerging workplace and consumer-based digital solutions. In addition to comfort, AR glasses should have intuitive controls and user-friendly interfaces.

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

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Regarding hand tracking, Xiaomi’s latest AR smart glasses boast micro gesture controls, leading to enhanced human-computer interfacing (HCI) capabilities. These allow users to swipe virtual pages in manuals and eBooks, exit apps, navigate maps, and other controls.

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SIGGRAPH 2017: Neurable Lets You Control A Virtual World With Your Mind

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This is combined with eye-tracking technology from German firm SMI, which may have just been acquired by Apple. At SIGGRAPH this week the Boston-based startup is showing its modified HTC Vive which include EEG ( Electroencephalography ) sensors along the interior of the headstrap.