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Reality Labs Chief Scientist Outlines a New Compute Architecture for True AR Glasses

Road to VR

Speaking at the IEDM conference late last year, Meta Reality Labs’ Chief Scientist Michael Abrash laid out the company’s analysis of how contemporary compute architectures will need to evolve to make possible the AR glasses of our sci-fi conceptualizations. Follow the Power. Compute Where You Least Expect It. Image courtesy Meta.

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Magic Leap Announces First Round of Independent Creator Program Grant Recipients

Road to VR

Magic Leap is giving away serious cash to developers this year through their Independent Creator Program , which has earmarked an “eight-figure” number destined to fund app developers working in gaming, entertainment, collaboration, productivity, and more. Architecture & Construction. Data Visualization.

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The Top XR Vendors Majoring in Construction in 2022

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Meta recently announced the arrival of a popular architectural tool “ Unity Reflect ” in the Meta Quest environment for 2022. Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 mixed reality technology makes it easy for engineering and construction companies, as well as architectural leaders, to bring digital project maps into the real world. Magic Leap.

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Enterprise AR Trends for 2020 and Beyond

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AR has penetrated almost all the industries: automotive, professional services, education and training, retail, architecture, and healthcare. Already, several top-level companies like LG, Apple , and Sony are joining the market of AR hardware producers, dominated so far by Microsoft and Magic Leap.

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Work in the Metaverse: Is Metawork the New 9 to 5?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Conversely, enterprise solutions are designed at scale to accommodate an immense number of use cases and bespoke data sets. New mixed reality (MR) headsets such as the Meta Quest Pro, Magic Leap 2, Lenovo VRX, and Pico 4 Enterprise have dramatically stepped up the XR industry. Downsides to Metawork.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.28): GDC, GTC, Snap’s acquisition of NextMind, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I have anyway selected four news that can be relevant for you: NVIDIA has announced a new GPU architecture, called Hopper, that represents the evolution of Ampere. It can train a model 6–7x faster than the previous data center GPU. Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing.

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XR Technology for Industry According to Unity’s Andre Gauthier

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In this instance, ‘real-time’ means immediate data consumption and interactivity to bring these experiences to life,” Unity Montreal’s Studio Head and Vice President of Features Andre Gauthier said in an email interview. “I The new platform uses Unity’s existing AR Foundation but gives extra affordances for testing and app data.