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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. ” he asks. Compute Where You Least Expect It.

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Aumented Reality for Architecture?—?Use Cases in 2021

ARVR

Aumented Reality for Architecture?—?Use How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare Why is Augmented Reality so important in Architecture? This abundance of 3D assets, with a lot of information embedded, play a vital role in the adoption of Augmented Reality for Architecture. the year of AR glasses?

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Immersive Architecture is the event all architects were waiting for

The Ghost Howls

In a week here in Italy will start a very interesting VR-related event called Immersive Architecture. The name is self-explanatory, but since I like to write a lot of unnecessary sentences, I’ll tell you that it is an event focused on the applications of AR and VR in architecture, design, rendering and all related sector.

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Facebook’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Don’t Support AR, And That’s Okay

VRScout

Capture photos and videos, listen to music, and take calls with the new Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses. All-in-all, Ray-Ban Stories is an impressive piece of hardware that—while not an AR headset—represents a major step in the right direction for immersive technology.

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NVIDIA Posts First DirectX 12 Ultimate Driver Set, Enables GPU Hardware Scheduling

Anand Tech

As well, this driver also enables support for hardware accelerated GPU scheduling. GPU Architectures. In the case of NVIDIA’s recent video cards, the underlying Turing architecture has supported these features since the very beginning. ray tracing and tier 2 variable rate shading. DirectX 12 Feature Levels.

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Seagate Unveils CORTX Object Storage Software with Lyve Drive Rack Hardware Reference Design

Anand Tech

Seagate is a hardware vendor at its core, and as part of the CORTX initiative, it is also introducing the Lyve Drive Rack - a reference architecture supported by Seagate and available later this year with 20TB HAMR drives. It is better for the community as a whole, as there is no vendor lock-in with proprietary architectures.

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AMD Begins Polaris and Vega GPU Retirement Process, Reduces Ongoing Driver Support

Anand Tech

As AMD is now well into their third generation of RDNA architecture GPUs, the sun has been slowly setting on AMD’s remaining Graphics Core Next (GCN) designs, better known by the architecture names of Polaris and Vega. As of AMD’s September Adrenaline 23.9