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Is Facebook Building a ‘Social Layer’ For the Spatial Web?

AR Insider

So predicting AR’s trajectory becomes an exercise in “ following the money.” ” For Google, investments in AR are to drive search (visual search, mapping). Google will be the knowledge layer , just like its web index serves that purpose on the 2D web. For Apple, AR’s job is to sell more hardware.

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How Do AR Advertising Platforms Stack Up?

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It includes some of its data and takeaways. Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer data if applicable. Though its current active use is lowest among platforms, its installed base is greatest… meaning it has the biggest shell to grow into (see data in the next section). Platform Rundown.

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Is Instagram AR’s Sleeping Giant?

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For an indexed library of spatial computing insights, data, reports and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. We’ve been toying with this “ follow the money ” exercise for a while, but it gained steam at Facebook’s recent OC6 event. This is done to future proof massive sums of revenue. Convergence Path.

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Is Instagram AR’s Sleeping Giant?

AR Insider

We’ve been toying with this “ follow the money ” exercise for a while, but it gained steam at Facebook’s recent OC6 event. Besides the news that Facebook is working on AR glasses, it revealed its work in building persistent spatial mapping data, known as Live Maps. Convergence Path.

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XR Today Guide: What is Augmented Reality?

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Simply put, AR allows its users to supply digital overlays of data, creative content, or holographic images with unlimited potential. AR and applications designed for it provide sensory information to users with spatially-anchored data. Data linked to specific positions in the physical world come to life with AR technologies.

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The AR Show: Projecting AR’s Fate in 2020

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AR Insider’s ongoing coverage of The AR Show episodes is an exercise in deconstructing and synthesizing the musings of spatial computing’s top minds. This “ follow the money ” exercise is a key AR confidence signal. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.”

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

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There’s one, you need to get data in somehow, right? First of all, we’re getting data in. But if you do that, you lose a lot of data. It’s also if you want MRI device or you have GIS data, BIM data. So it’s– or scan data. So you need to get 3D models created. So what did we do?

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