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ASUS Officially Unveils The ZenFone AR, The First Daydream and Tango Ready Smartphone (Update)

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Update: During its press conference today, ASUS officially unveiled the ZenFone AR, which is poised to officially be the first Tango-enabled smartphone that also supports Google’s Daydream VR platform. The ZenFone AR will be the first smartphone to launch with 8GB of RAM and features ASUS’s specially designed Vapor Cooling system.

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Report: ASUS ZenFone Is Both Daydream and Tango Ready

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Following today’s news about the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 mobile processor , we learned about more mobile VR and AR developments. In a leaked Qualcomm blog post (which has since been taken down), it looks like the upcoming ASUS ZenFone is expected to be both Google Daydream and Tango ready.

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‘HOLOSCOPE’ Headset Claims to Solve AR Display Hurdle with True Holography

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Holograms are so bamboozling that the term often gets used colloquially to mean ‘fancy-looking 3D image’, but holograms are actually a very specific and interesting method for capturing light field scenes which have some real advantages over other methods of displaying 3D imagery.

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Triton Project is an affordable DIY AR headset

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Today I have the pleasure of publishing an interview I had with Graham Atlee , a very smart guy that has developed the Triton Project, a DIY affordable AR headset with wide FOV and natural hands interactions! For the past 3 years I’ve been working on various AR/VR projects like Pumori.io Triton AR headset (Image by Graham Atlee).

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Magic Leap One first impressions review: it’s not a leap, but a step

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But while we were great on the technical side, we weren’t good at doing business and marketing (I only started my blog in summer 2016 ), so in 2017 we closed the curtain on our crazy adventure. In my opinion, this is one of the greatest innovations that it has introduced in the AR ecosystem. than Consumer AR 1.0.

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Understanding Predictive Tracking and Why It’s Important for AR/VR Headsets

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In the context of AR and VR systems, predictive tracking refers to the process of predicting the future orientation and/or position of an object or body part. For instance, one might want to predict the orientation of the head or the position of the hand. He frequently shares his views and knowledge on his blog.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

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There’s a lot to say about me, but I think you are more interested in the weekly roundup of news, so…. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Is Apple partnering with Valve on AR? Don’t hope in perfect AR glasses soon. Top news of the week.