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Book Review: Mark Pesce’s “Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech’s Next Big Thing”

ARPost

Mark Pesce’s book Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech’s Next Big Thing comes to shelves in January, but Polity Books put an advance copy in our hands at ARPost. The book takes a long look at augmented reality’s past in an attempt to warn us about its potential future. Augmented Reality Changes Our Relationship to Space.

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We Tried Snap’s AR Glasses And Had Our Minds Blown

VRScout

The latest Spectacles design was the first to include built-in AR (augmented reality) functionality, allowing the wearer to interact with existing Snapchat AR Lenses straight from the glasses in real-time. The glasses aren’t available for purchase at the moment. Now anyone can begin creating AR Lenses for their local areas.

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Educators make lemonade with Virtual Worlds

Hypergrid Business

Architecture students from Egypt and the United States meeting in Second Life. This is what Microsoft did in the 1980s with office automation. Educators will continue to look at different virtual and augmented reality tools, depending on their learner population and their learning needs. Image courtesy Jon Brouchoud.).

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation. But in my opinion, I don’t think the killer app of virtual reality is games. You have to look at the segment specific-elements of it that can be augmented.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation. But in my opinion, I don’t think the killer app of virtual reality is games. You have to look at the segment specific-elements of it that can be augmented.

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Augmented Birthday Parties and Virtual Reality Field Trips with Centertec's Bill Tustin

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: The whole idea of being able to take field trips really far -- going to the pyramids in Egypt -- that's not really something that most schools (or any schools), you know, "let's get a flight and fly halfway around the world to go see something." Mobile phone-based augmented reality? That was a game-changer.

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Augmented Birthday Parties and Virtual Reality Field Trips with Centertec’s Bill Tustin

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: The whole idea of being able to take field trips really far — going to the pyramids in Egypt — that’s not really something that most schools (or any schools), you know, “let’s get a flight and fly halfway around the world to go see something.” Mobile phone-based augmented reality?