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AES 2022 (Formerly EWTS) Event Preview

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The Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit is now the Augmented Enterprise Summit, or AES for short. The event is well-attended by enterprises using XR wearables, making it different from other summits that are largely the same collection of XR companies promoting their own products and services. Looking Back at AES.

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Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs?

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billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. They’ve raised over $22 million in funding for their AR wearables from seasoned investors like Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Greylock Capital, and Marc Benioff. Guest Post.

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Magic Leap to Launch in 19 Countries, Exec Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Watts was joined by Pearly Chen, Vice-President of HTC VIVE , Brian Vogelsang, Senior Director of Product Management for Qualcomm Technologies , and Maria Pace, Head of XR Hardware, Global Partnerships and Strategies for Google. Maria Pace, Head of XR Hardware, Global Partnerships and Strategies for Google. ” Comfort is Key.

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Snapdragon AR2 to Empower AR Devices, Qualcomm Says

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The San Diego, California-based firm has become synonymous with delivering XR solutions capable of untethering head-mounted displays (HMDs) from PC. We wanted to help facilitate lightweight, wearable glasses with comfortable form factors, allowing people to use them for longer periods of time.

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Snapchat’s ‘Toy’ Glasses Set the Stage for Augmented Reality Dominance

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High tech glasses have to look good, hence the prior failures of others like Google who have attempted to develop similar items. Snapchat’s AR ambitions pre-date Looksery though; as they acquired another Southern California based company known as Vergence Labs for $15 million in 2014. This is not Silicon Valley’s Google Glass.

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New VR Startups are Helping People with Phobias

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In Palo Alto, California there is a startup backed by legendary venture capital firm, Sequoia Capital called Limbix. Today a therapist can buy a mobile Google Daydream headset for about $70. People who were afraid of heights in real life still had a desire to put on the headset.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

Steve Mann is commonly referred to as the “father of wearable computing” for innovations like the EyeTap, which combined computer processing with graphical design and textual overlays. But building a wearable general-purpose computer with wireless digital-communications capabilities was itself a feat. They were slick, they were robust.

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