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Google Releases AR Geospatial Creator for Unity

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Google has unveiled its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform, allowing developers to preview 3D assets via the Unity Editor. Viewing spatially-linked assets on a hyperrealistic 3D planet map, the toolkit powers ARCore and Photorealistic 3D Tiles via the Google Maps Platform, it said on its website.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.20): Meta to perform new layoffs, Google Glass to shut down, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I still feel a lot tired because of the jet lag and the little sleep I had in Austin, but this is pretty normal, and in one week or such this feeling should go away. Google is discontinuing Google Glass, even in its Enterprise Edition which found some fields of application in the B2B sector (e.g. I’m back in Italy!

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What Did People Use Before Google to Search the Web?

GizModo VR

You’re wearing whatever people wore back then—some kind of jean jacket, I’m guessing—and talking to your friend about your new favorite movie, the recently released Mike Myers vehicle Austin Powers. You’re quoting the movie, and your friend thinks this is hilarious. Then things take a dark turn. “I… I… Read more.

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Niantic’s ‘Ingress Prime’ Brings A Sci-fi Twist To Location-Based AR Gaming

VRScout

Using OpenStreetMap alongside Google Maps, the app revealed a secret digital battlefield that existed over the real-world, allowing a small, but dedicated community of players to duke it out in digital turf wars. Ingress Prime is available now on the Apple App Store and on Google Play. Image Credit: Niantic .

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A Look at the AWE Agenda for This Year

ARPost

The talk is going to focus on the collection of biometric data from XR hardware and how companies, policymakers, and others can work together for the responsible collection and use of this material. Of course, companies don’t need to have a keynote to say something interesting. Niantic (and 8th Wall ). Autodesk Inc. Magic Leap.

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Interview with Sam Murley, EHS Digital Acceleration Leader at General Electric

EnterpriseWear

and The Predictive Digital Model” this October in Austin at EWTS 2018! How do you protect employee data? In general, for every technology we evaluate and ultimately use, we take it through a comprehensive and thorough data privacy and labor relations review. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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Editorial: Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse (And a Look at an AI-Assisted Social VR Platform, Riff XR)

Ryan Schultz

By utilizing intelligent agents capable of autonomous decision making based off data collected from other players’ actions, developers can ensure smooth gameplay even during peak hours without sacrificing any quality due performance issues caused by too many people playing at once! (I