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Snap Celebrates the Fifth Annual Lens Fest

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While Boland said that AR glasses are “years away,” he also pointed out that AR glasses only have world-facing cameras. The event recognized 50 finalists across five categories with one winner in each. Once again, judges came from across Snap, though the categories were different this year.

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Meta’s Head of AR Hardware Teases Next-gen Transparent AR Glasses with Wide Field-of-view

Road to VR

” That’s not really unusual as far as AR devices go, like HoloLens 2 or Magic Leap 2—a product category that typically uses waveguides pared with micoOLEDs in place of the passthrough cameras and traditional VR headset displays that we’re used to seeing in the company’s mixed reality headsets Quest 3 and Quest Pro.

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Google Advances its Geo-local AR Play

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You can just lift up your camera and see overlaid on the real world the ATM that’s nearby,” said Google VP and GM of Geo Chris Phillips at a Google event. For the latter, users can tap on different business categories when in Live View to activate category-based layers of nearby businesses. Google has its eye on that prize.

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Lynx Secures $4M in Series A Funding, Aims to Become “European Champion of Mixed Reality”

Road to VR

Built on Qualcomm’s XR2 chipset, Lynx R-1 combines high quality cameras and virtual reality displays to achieve passthrough AR in addition to standard VR (aka, mixed reality), making it an early pioneer of the category. ” Founded in 2019, Lynx has high ambitions for its R-1 headset too.

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See How You Look With A Virtual Beard Using AR Technology

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All you have to do is snap a selfie using your smartphone’s camera and select the beard of your choice. With the tap of a button, you can experiment with 15 styles of facial hair, including a classic goatee, a Tony Starke-style anchor beard, a simple mustache, old-school mutton chops, and more.

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VR Recording On Quest Gets A Major Upgrade

VRScout

Now, all you need to do is toggle on Advanced Camera Settings in the Experimental Settings menu. Filter and batch-lock games and apps based on rating categories (example: lock all M-rated games). Prior to this update, if you wanted to adjust any of the above settings, you need to use a program like SideQuest. New Security Tools.

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Google Extends AR Search Lead Over Apple with Landmark Recognition for Google Lens

Next Reality AR

In response, Google just hit back with a new feature for its visual search tool called Places, a new search category that can recognize landmarks and return information on them within the camera view, which Apple touted as a capability of Live Text during its WWDC keynote.

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