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Augmented Reality Revives 300-Year-Old Boston Bookstore

VRScout

A bookstore in Boston celebrated its 300th birthday with an augmented reality makeover. Historic Boston Incorporated (HBI) debuted an AR app last week that overlays 3D virtual signs dating back to 1850 on the historic Old Corner Bookstore. It’s not yet on the Google Play store — but you can download its SDK from HBI.

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How Can Brands Jumpstart Sales with AR? Part II

AR Insider

This can be valuable in optimizing campaigns through targeted advertising, and “retargeting” services like Facebook Pixel, Google Ads, landing pages, or wish lists. A study from Boston Consulting Group found that 9/10 brands are using, or plan to use, AR in their marketing. Does AR Really Boost eCommerce Conversions?

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Meta, IBM Rally XR Community for Global AI Alliance

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Also, institutions like Cornell University, Imperial College London, Boston University and Harvard University’s MOC Alliance, University of California Berkeley, University of Notre Dame, University of Illinois, University of Tokyo, Yale University and many more have joined the alliance. .”

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The 10 Most Important AI Trends For 2024 Everyone Must Be Ready For Now

Bernard Marr

A Boston Consulting Group survey found that 95 percent of customer service leaders expect their customers will be served by AI bots at some point in the next three years. Coders will use it to speed up writing software and to test and debug their output.

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The Hot New Job That Pays Six Figures: AI Prompt Engineering

Bernard Marr

A prompt engineer is someone who is an expert at getting the new generation of generative AI applications such as ChatGPT or Google Bard to do what they want. Learning to get the best results from generative AI is a skill that needs to be learned and honed, just like becoming professionally adept in any other computer software.

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How Will AR Transform Advertising?

AR Insider

While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens. Just imagine a world where Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have bodies. In fact MeetinVR boasts a 25% higher attention span in its software compared to traditional video conferencing.

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Staking Claim to a Digital Plot in AR, with SuperWorld’s Hrish Lotlikar

XR for Business Podcast

Sofia — the humanoid robot, if you’ve seen her — SingularityNET is Sofia’s software and provides some of that software there. And the top people end up working in outsourcing for Facebook and Google and other top tech companies in Silicon Valley. And so SingularityNET is an AI marketplace.

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