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5 Industries Which Could Benefit From Augmented Reality Post COVID

ARPost

Augmented reality has been making waves in a number of industries including healthcare, events, and sports. But, with the pandemic accelerating interest in augmented and virtual-related technologies, this figure might have underestimated the potential growth. But it’s post COVID when AR is expected to really take off.

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Post-Pandemic, Augmented Reality Serves Entertainment With Its Re-Emergence

ARPost

Most people don’t know augmented reality was first created and tested in the late 1960s: by a Harvard professor, with a wired head-mounted display. Finally, after an initial boom of popularity inspired by the animated confections of Pokémon GO, augmented reality reached the lexicon of the layman in 2016.

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VWBPE 2024 Conference Mythic Origins starts this Thursday

Hypergrid Business

The seventeenth annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference , beginning on Thursday, March 14, 2024, will be an online distributed conference happening in multiple virtual spaces. This conference focuses on the use of immersive virtual environments for educational purposes including virtual and augmented reality.

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Get Ready for This Year’s AR/VR Policy Conference

ARPost

The AR/VR Policy Conference is returning to Washington D.C. Looking at Last Year’s AR/VR Policy Conference. The inaugural AR/VR Policy Conference took place last year and returns as a joint effort of the XR Association and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). If you weren’t around last year, don’t worry.

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A Look at the Upcoming AR/VR Policy Conference

ARPost

A special conference taking place on October 21 will look at both extant policies governing XR as well as what sort of policies may be advantageous as the field continues to grow. The AR/VR Policy Conference. The half-day conference will take place in the ITIF offices in Washington D.C. We need an AR/VR policy.

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Building Augmented Reality for the Web: Which Platform is the Best?

ARVR

MUSE Museum AR Experience on a mobile application Finding the best platform for your WebAR project Introduction I have been building Augmented reality apps since 2006, and I have worked with various systems: PC, Mobile, Adobe Flash FlarToolkit, Depth sensors, RGB Sensors, Magicleap, Microsoft Hololens, Google Tango andARCore, and Apple AR Kit.

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Magic Leap Acquires Augmented Reality Telepresence Startup Mimesys

Next Reality AR

Just months after we previewed the augmented reality, volumetric video conferencing powers of Mimesys, the company has undergone a major change — it's now a part of Magic Leap.