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NYT Uses AR To Compare The World’s Most Polluted Air With Your City’s

VRScout

You can also explore the particulate concentrations of cities such as Chicago, Shenzhen, Rio de Janeiro, and many others. The particulate pollution reached 200 µg/m3, which is considered “very unhealthy”. Image Credit: NYT New Delhi. I think the team did a stellar job bringing it to life.”. Image Credit: New York Times.

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Uber Explore adds reservations, activities to the ride-hailing app

Mashable VR

But instead of having to search Google or Yelp, you won't have to leave the Uber app for it. Uber has a lot of data on where you've gone and eaten (through Uber Eats), so it'll start with recommendations based on your Uber history. cities (Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Memphis, Minneapolis-St. Credit: Uber.

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American Express Launches AR Shopping for Small Business Saturday

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The novel experience will activate from physical blue door frame installations placed at Chicago’s Magnificent Mile (Pioneer Court), Los Angeles’ Westfield Century City, and New York City’s Gansevoort Plaza, located at NYC’s Meatpacking District. In the research, AmEx noted key reasons for shopping at small retailers.

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The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

ARPost

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. The experience now sits in the hall of fame with Google Tilt Brush , which won the category in 2017. VR Lifetime Achievement. VR Film of the Year.

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Over 20 Use Cases of Smart Glasses, VR Headsets, and Smartwatches at Airports

EnterpriseWear

Take Chicago O’Hare International Airport: By 1975, O’Hare was the world’s busiest airport, handling 37 million passengers a year. Ideas on the ground and on board: The airport industry first began toying with wearable technology with the release of the original Google Glass in 2013. In 2017, more than double that number – 79.8

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Pokémon Go: By the Numbers

AR Insider

Data Dive is AR Insider’s weekly dive into select spatial computing figures. Running Mondays, it includes data points and strategic takeaways. For an indexed library of data, reports, and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. So what does the data collection reveal? That said, here’s the “data dump.”

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Creating Synthetic Photography, with ThreeKit’s Ben Houston

XR for Business Podcast

And that configuration data is often run off a lot of business data, from an either ERP or some e-commerce integration. So, yeah, that's where we get the models and that's how we get the materials, the last aspect of that is we have to get your configuration data. Ben: Google has published some numbers on that.

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