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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

The Ghost Howls

Last week, Google delivered its most important event of the year, the Google I/O. Of course, AI has been the star of the show , with the public release of Google Bard and the announcement of a new language model, but there have been also interesting pieces of news about XR.

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Report: Apple to Unveil ARKit 2.0, Putting Privacy & Multiuser AR at Its Core

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Reported changes coming to the platform include multiuser AR that runs on a local peer-to-peer network, ensuring the resultant data, such as room scans, remain private. Google says it discards raw mapping data after a week. image courtesy TIME. Nor do I think the vast majority of people would be satisfied.”.

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Zuckerberg: ‘One Million People Use VR Every Month’

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Zuckerberg again marched onto the stage in San Jose yesterday morning following a short introduction from Facebook CEO Brenden Iribe. Oculus isn’t providing specific statistics to help us analyse and verify this data, but it would be fascinating to work out the divides in headset usage. He had a lot more to share.

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Adobe To Launch AR Features ‘As Fast As We Can,’ Exec Says

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The San Jose-based company isn’t the first big fish to gush about AR. ” Adobe unveiled its first foray into AR with a proof-of-concept Microsoft HoloLens app that overlays 3D data visualizations on products in a store. For instance, retail staff could wear the HoloLens to see how something has been selling.

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

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At an event in San Jose, California, Facebook introduced its plan for augmented reality glasses, where users will be able to pull up a visual display on top of what’s actually in front of them. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems.

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On the ground with TechCrunch at GDC 2019

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But perhaps the biggest of all was Google’s new game-streaming service Stadia. I was playing it on a hotel TV hooked up to a laptop and I think I was connecting to a data center in San Jose which was about 50 miles away, which is definitely on the low end if they are rolling it out across the entire United States.

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NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Officially Announced

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NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), a world leader in AI computing technology, will host its eighth annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on May 8-11, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. GTC is a great opportunity for developers and data scientists to sharpen their skills.