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Augmented reality and the next century of the web

TechCrunch VR

This week, I scribbled some thoughts on another aspect of the future web, the ongoing battle between Facebook and Apple to own augmented reality. The clearest reality is that in 2021 everyday users still don’t seem quite as interested in AR as the next generation of platform owners stand to benefit from a massive transition.

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Walmart Rolls Out AR Shopping App

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

US retail behemoth Walmart announced on Thursday it had updated its customer shopping app with two novel augmented reality (AR) solutions aimed at improving shopper experiences.

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Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neidra of EAC at University of Arkansas Little Rock

Everything VR & AR

Carolina Cruz-Neidra who is known as the co-inventor and developer of the CAVE automatic virtual environment and is currently the Director of the Emerging Analytics Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Make sure to visit www.thevrara.com for more information about the VRAR Association and how you can get involved.

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AR will mean dystopia if we don’t act today

TechCrunch VR

Soon everyone will be wearing 3D-capable cameras to support augmented reality (often referred to as mixed reality) applications. User and Developer Ownership and Control: Figure out how to give end users and app developers appropriate levels of ownership and control over data that originates from their device.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

In terms of consulting work, we’ve consulted for Verizon, we’ve consulted for Coca-Cola, mostly in the augmented reality side of things. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. But then you put the controller down. They’ve never used these controllers before.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms’ Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

In terms of consulting work, we’ve consulted for Verizon, we’ve consulted for Coca-Cola, mostly in the augmented reality side of things. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. But then you put the controller down. They’ve never used these controllers before.

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Creating Virtual Scenarios to Train Soft Skills in XR, with Friends With Holograms' Cortney Harding

XR for Business Podcast

In terms of consulting work, we've consulted for Verizon, we've consulted for Coca-Cola, mostly in the augmented reality side of things. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. And I cannot wait until the day that I can take all my controllers and like run over them with my car, because--.