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The 2022 Snap Partner Summit: Heavier Than Ever on AR

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Snap does have interests outside of AR, and in the interest of timely publication and manageable article length, a lot of non-AR announcements aren’t covered here. Murphy talked about AR but also introduced some of the supporting technologies including machine learning. Partnerships With Google and LiveNation.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.21): Google is building an AR OS, Nike acquires RTFKT, and more!

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Image by Google). Google is reportedly working on an AR operating system. In some of my past newsletters, I warned you that we shouldn’t forget about Google/Alphabet in the race to our mixed reality future. Now we have finally an official confirmation of the fact that Google is working on an AR device. Tilt Brush).

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Can Snap Scan Make the World More Shoppable?

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It positions the camera as a search input – applying machine learning and computer vision magic – to identify items you point your phone at. Seen in products like Google Lens , visual search is all about annotating the world. And the two companies noted in this articleGoogle and Snap — are exactly that.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.11): Upload VR Showcase, Metaverse Safety Week, and much more!

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I’ve selected some pieces of news I’ve personally found interesting and put the links here below, but I suggest you skim through the article with all the announcements because maybe we have different gaming tastes. The third piece is a long article about Jensen Huang and how he led NVIDIA to be one of the leading tech companies in the world.

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Emerging Technologies Achievable Through The Cloud: 4 Practical Examples

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And that’s exactly what we’re going to take a look at in this article?—?the BigQuery from Google Cloud has many powerful features that allow users to view their data in real-time, providing continual up-to-date information to help guide business decisions. Sources: SAS , Google Cloud , Hostingtribunal ) Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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XR Trends to Watch In 2022

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For example, Project Cambria, the codename for Meta’s (previously Facebook) MR hardware, is continuously being classified as either AR, VR, or MR depending on the article or publication. Google’s real-time face and body tracking; Source: Google. See Also: “Facebook” Is now “Meta” and Other News From Connect 2021.

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Big XR News from Google, ChatGPT, Vodafone, and Seoul Metropolitan Government

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Google Parent Alphabet Lays Off 12,000 Jobs Late last week, Alphabet, Google’s parent firm, laid off roughly 12,000 individuals. The move accounts for around 6 percent of Google’s global workforce. Google’s layoffs come just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees.