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7 Practical AR Uses In Healthcare

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Who said that augmented reality (AR) was just for gaming? In Utah, Orca Health has experimented with a medical AR app called EyeDecide, which allows eye doctors to visually demonstrate to patients how cataracts can affect the eye. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. You heard right!

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Partnering with National Geographic to show off the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah in full 360 degree glory, Facebook took its first steps into live spherical video. Available through the Google Play Store, the app allows users to navigate around the 360 degree content with their remote control.

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Smart Glasses? It’s all about perspective.

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While there were various attempts to realize such device over the past decades, Google definitely has the prerogative of raising the awareness of the general public for this technology. Its Google Glass finally unlocked the market of smart eyewear in 2013. Smart binoculars are similar to the monocular.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.01): Sony confirms PSVR 2, Facebook teases Quest 2 Pro, and more!

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Sorry if you have to use Google Translate, but the article is of course all in Chinese The most relevant piece of news for us in the West are all about Nreal: The Nreal Light is finally arriving in Europe and the US in Q2 2021; The Chinese company has also showcased an enterprise version of the headset. Learn more.

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Researchers Transform Real Soccer Matches into Tabletop AR Reconstructions

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The FIFA World Cup finals are nearly here, and while we still live in a time where most everyone interested in the France vs. Croatia match will be glued to a TV set, researchers from the University of Washington, Facebook, and Google just gave us a prescient look at what an AR soccer match could look like in the near future.

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The VRScout Report – Altspace Shuts Down & Disney Resorts Get The Void

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Disney is making sure that the general public’s first taste of virtual reality will be with a world you already love… in this case, Star Wars. Teaming up with The VOID from Utah, the team behind the Ghostbusters immersive activation in Time Square, Disney is bringing us immersive Star Wars experiences to similar high-foot traffic areas.

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NVIDIA’s Greg Jones: The 5G hype is justified, it’s going to be a huge advantage for XR

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He’s the man managing the CloudXR SDK, the solution that lets you have cloud rendering for virtual and augmented reality , so he has a great vision on how and when we can have an XR headset that offloads everything to the cloud.

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