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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. ” SEE ALSO Google Daydream Review: Casual VR Closes the Gap.

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Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 Is A Higher End Chip For The Samsung-Google Headset & More

Upload VR

It inherits all the advantages of the base XR2 Gen 2 architecture, including the hardware acceleration for camera passthrough that is said to reduce end-to-end latency to around 12 milliseconds. GPU performance, on the other hand, took a huge leap with the Gen 2 architecture. Details here: UploadVR David Heaney

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Qualcomm Swaps Out Arm for RISC-V for Next-Gen Google Wear OS Devices

Anand Tech

As part of a broad collaborative agreement with Google, Qualcomm this week said that that it will be adopting the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) for a future Snapdragon Wear platform. Similarly, Google's backing of the ISA by porting Wear OS to RISC-V is a major milestone on the software front.

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The AR Location Wars, Part II: Apple

AR Insider

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” Apple’s AR play — as with most endeavors — is to sell hardware. ” But it’s not alone.

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The AR Space Race, Part VII: Microsoft

AR Insider

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” It’s a software architecture that enables spatially oriented computing interactions. ” But it’s not alone.

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Microsoft Will Take the Wraps Off Windows 11 Hardware On Sept. 22

GizModo VR

5, but what would a new operating system be without new hardware to showcase it? Microsoft is having what many have pegged as a Surface hardware event on Sept. We already know Microsoft is launching Windows 11 on Oct. 22 at 8 a.m. It’s all virtual, of course, and there’s a link available if you want to… Read more.

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How Will the AR Cloud Unlock the Spatial Web?

AR Insider

Another way to view the AR cloud – framed in the terminology of today’s technology – is an architecture that makes the physical world clickable. Just as Google began indexing the web 20 years ago, the next evolution could be for someone to index the physical world in potentially more valuable ways. The AR Location Wars, Part I: Google.

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