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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

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Last week, Google delivered its most important event of the year, the Google I/O. Of course, AI has been the star of the show , with the public release of Google Bard and the announcement of a new language model, but there have been also interesting pieces of news about XR.

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3 Companies Building Positioning and Tracking Solutions for Advanced AR

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It also helps to ensure that assets tied to a specific geographic location appear where they are supposed to. This article will look at some of the companies rethinking positioning. It’s important to understand at the outset that positioning and locating are not the same as “localization.” One under-rated technical ability?

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The 2022 Snap Partner Summit: Heavier Than Ever on AR

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The event, dedicated to the company’s staff in Ukraine, was produced across real locations in LA – a departure from the previous two partner summits that were created on stages. We’re saving the “one more thing” moment for the end of the article, but it wasn’t Spectacles’ availability. The Product Portion.

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What’s Behind Google’s Latest AR Updates?

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After expanding and contracting in various VR initiatives, Google continues to be committed to AR. Google’s prevailing AR play, otherwise known as Google Lens. As examined in our Location Wars series, this also takes form in what we call Google’s Internet of Places. This is Google’s version of an AR cloud.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

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Image by Google). Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world. Zuckerberg teases Project Cambria. Other relevant news.

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Snapchat Advances Its Geo-Local AR Play

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This goes back to its early work in Geofilters , Snap Map and, more recently, Local Lenses. A feature of Snap Map, it brings more structure to local discovery by positioning 30 million local businesses with more formal interactivity in the mapping UX. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Snap’s latest move is My Places.

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Who Will Build the Metavearth?

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Mark Zuckerberg calls it an “embodied internet,” while Tim Sweeney calls it a “real-time 3D social medium where people can create and engage in shared experiences.” Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How VR could bring transhumanism to the masses 2. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3.

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