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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.17): Half-Life Alyx will launch on March, 23rd, MWC has been canceled and much more!

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Augmented Reality is being a great tool for e-commerce: AR tools have increased the user’s likelihood of purchase by 11 times; Build.com found that the return rate after selecting items in AR has decreased by 22%. Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. More info (Use Google Translate).

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How Brain-Computer Interfaces Can Deliver On VR’s Promises

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Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. In the 1970’s scientists at the University of California popularized the term “brain-computer interface” or BCI , referring to a hardware and software system that uses brainwaves to control devices. Current Limits.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

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Dispelix of Finland has not only produced a surface relief waveguide, they’ve made a significant contribution to the manufacturing process. Magic Leap. For a secretive company, we can learn a lot about Magic Leap from their patent filings and acquisitions, namely that they launched without a clear path to executing their vision.

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Letting Workers Qualify Themselves in AR, with AR Expert’s Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger

XR for Business Podcast

He has more than 15 years experience in augmented reality. And during that time — when computers for AR glasses were still carried in large backpacks — Björn holds a PhD in industrial augmented reality as a serial entrepreneur. That’s how we did augmented reality 15, 20 years ago.

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Letting Workers Qualify Themselves in AR, with AR Expert’s Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger

XR for Business Podcast

He has more than 15 years experience in augmented reality. And during that time — when computers for AR glasses were still carried in large backpacks — Björn holds a PhD in industrial augmented reality as a serial entrepreneur. That’s how we did augmented reality 15, 20 years ago.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

XR for Business Podcast

I had a wonderful opportunity to speak with you many times, and we are both very, very passionate about virtual and augmented reality. So it will be probably a bit better than the Focus, for what concerns the comfort and the controllers — it is more ergonomic. or Finland? Antony: Varro is from Finland.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

XR for Business Podcast

I had a wonderful opportunity to speak with you many times, and we are both very, very passionate about virtual and augmented reality. We have a lot to go through; we're going to go through all of the different hardware aspects involved in Virtual/Mixed/Augmented Reality -- XR -- and it's not just the headsets or headphones.

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