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HoloLens Optics Chief Joins Google Amid Reported Push for Upcoming Google AR Headset

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Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, has left the company to take on the role of Director of XR Engineering at the recently formed Google Labs. Now Kress is back at Mountain View working on Google’s next AR headset.

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Can VividQ Unlock Holographic AR?

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That maps to fully-immersive VR, as well as real-world AR interaction. And the portion of the tech stack where it focuses is AR display technology. Here, there are generally many moving parts and methodologies to get 3D content to render in line-of-sight and world-immersive ways?—?everything

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Augmented Reality May Be The Future, But It Still Has Major Limitations

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Augmented reality may be the future of games, but there are some huge problems that stand in its way. So we decided to gather three of the biggest AR visionaries and product makers to show us the path to the future at our GamesBeat Summit 2017 event last week. But he still can’t make AR glasses with awesome visuals for just $500.

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A Demo and Fresh Look at Campfire

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Bar-Zeev has worked in XR since 1992 including co-founding Google Earth, serving as a consultant for Linden Labs, a principal architect for Microsoft, advisor for Tilt Five and Croquet, and president of the XR Guild. A phone can be an AR viewer but also serves as a controller for the headset via an adapter called “the pack.” “We