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The XR Week (2022.01.24): Google AR headset is “Project Iris”, Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard, and more

The Ghost Howls

Image by Google). Project Iris is the codename of Google’s AR glasses. According to a report on The Verge, Google is working on AR glasses. The operating system should be Android, but it seems that Google is also building an operating system specific for XR. Header image by Google). What about yours?

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Google Job Listings Point to New “Mass Production” AR/VR Hardware in the Pipeline

Road to VR

Google launched the Daydream View headset late last year, the company’s first virtual reality hardware product. A slew of recent job postings however suggest significant new AR/VR hardware in the works from Google. A slew of recent job postings however suggest significant new AR/VR hardware in the works from Google.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.08): Xiaomi unveils its smartglasses, Improbable and RP1 want to create the networking for the metaverse, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

There is only one big problem: the form factor is terrible , they look super-dork, even worse than Google Glasses. And the CEO of Improbable stated that with the current architecture, they could go much beyond that, up to 100,000 users in the same shared space. Meta wants to help developers in creating hand-tracked experiences.

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XR Talks: What?s Holding Spatial Computing Back?

AR Insider

Though keyboards and mice are “ abstraction layers ” compared to things like intuitive VR hand tracking, the former is advantaged by its familiarity. Miesnieks backs up this point with the classic cautionary tale of Google Glass. Old habits die hard. Baby Steps. ” Social Contract.

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GDC 2018 ‘Day 1’ Roundup – Vive Pro Pricing, Magic Leap SDK, Nvidia RTX, and More

Road to VR

The company is still heavily involved with VR development however, and are expected to present some new technology with Google at Display Week 2018 in May. Since then, the project has remained quiet, and there is no sign of the headset this year. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap. Nvidia RTX. Photo: Remedy Entertainment.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

VRScout

The last big breakthrough we saw in ease-of-use interactivity was the launch of hand tracking and gesture recognition on enterprise and consumer VAR devices. The high-level architecture of IBM’s DeepQA used in Watson // Image Credit: AI Magazine. So functionally, that’s how it works,” says Pavitt. RICHER NARRATIVES.

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The best AR and VR news from CES 2021

The Ghost Howls

Google AR Cloud Streaming. Google has partnered with FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles… do you know that Fiat is from my city in Italy?) In this version, the Jeep has 4K textures and tens of millions of polygons, and it gets rendered on Google servers and streamed very fast to your smartphone. Pollen Robotics.

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