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Vuzix AR Swim Goggles Used For Tactical Scuba Diving

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Vuzix, a company specializing in wearable augmented reality (AR) technology, recently conducted an experiment in collaboration with OPTAC-X and Kymeta Corporation during which its Vuzix Smart Swim glasses were used to perform a SATCOM-enabled AR scuba dive.

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AR App Lets You Play ‘Space Invaders’ On A Beer Can Because Why Not?

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The Swigr app promises to boost brand engagement using its new AR gamification feature. Australian-based developer Immertia has released an app that allows alcohol brands to gamify beer cans using AR technology. The post AR App Lets You Play ‘Space Invaders’ On A Beer Can Because Why Not?

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End of the World Simulator in VR

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million people living in Hawaii on January 13, 2018. The three-part story experience takes about 38 minutes, the same amount of time it took for Hawaii citizens to find out that the alert was a false alarm. With your life flashing before your eyes, realistically, what would you do? That above text message was the reality for the 1.4

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Channel Your Inner 90’s Child With POGs AR

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One of the biggest fads of the 90’s returns with an AR multiplayer twist. The game first originated in Maui, Hawaii sometime during the 1920’s or 1930’s, but it wasn’t until the 1990’s that the game exploded into a craze so popular, it was banned from schools all over the United States.

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 to Improve AR/VR Rendering & Reduce Power Consumption “by 30%”

Road to VR

Qualcomm introduced it’s new Snapdragon 845 mobile processor at the company’s tech summit in Hawaii this week, which Qualcomm says improves mobile AR/VR headset (branded to as ‘XR’, or ‘eXtended reality’) performance up to 30 percent in comparison to its predecessor, Snapdragon 835.

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Surgery Training Platform ‘Osso VR’ Now Used by 1,000 Surgeons Monthly

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The company says that leading hospitals using the platform include Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hospital for Special Surgery, Marshall University, Newcastle Simulation Centre, The University of Hawaii, UCLA, University of Washington, Wake Forest Baptiste Health, University of Kentucky, University of Utah, and New York University.

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“Swimming with Sharks: The Tactical Benefits of Vuzix AR Swim Goggles!”

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The experiment, conducted off the coast of Electric Beach in Oahu, Hawaii by OPTAC-X CEO Dr. Patrick Fullerton descended up until a depth of 21 feet where […]

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