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Snapchat’s Spectacles 3 Glasses Capture Images & Video In 3D

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Of course, you’re always free to export your 3D snaps to your camera roll as circular, horizontal, square, and VR formats and share them on various other platforms. No specific details on this 3D viewer just yet, but we imagine something simple and cost-effect, similar to that of a Google Cardboard. Image Credit: Snap Inc.

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Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Right

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Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 2. Nearly 30 years ago, They Live introduced optical head-mounted display (OHMD) in the form of special sunglasses that show you the underlying messages being advertised to you (and aliens… lots of aliens). That is correct! Try not to get caught!

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How Big is the Augmented Reality market?

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While the exact projections vary, the overall consensus is that the augmented reality market is huge, and it’s getting bigger all the time. Of course, AR is driving more attention in some spaces than in others. In fact, head-mounted displays and smart glasses accounted for around 70.7% of the market during 2021.

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Apple’s Latest Patents Mark More Territory in AR Headset Hardware and Software

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In the figure below, the patent shows off a Google Glass-style configuration that is “especially well suited to be used with head mounted displays and a camera pointed at the space in front of the user.” ” Apple’s ‘Google Glass-style’ configuration, image courtesy USPTO.

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How Will AR Transform Advertising?

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Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Samsung VR is now somewhat similar to the App Store or Google Play store in that it’s where you can find the latest content for virtual reality products. The patent shows a smartphone head-mounted display that can read a person’s movements as well as track hand movements.

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Looking Back at Virtual Reality Over the Last 5 Years

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As a side note, I’m so glad we collectively stuck with calling it head-mounted displays, and not something like “VR Helmet”, “VR Glasses”, or any of the other many attempts to call it something else. Don’t have one yet? Just go to your local hardware store, pay as little as $5, et voilá!