Remove Data Remove Google Remove Study Remove Unreal
article thumbnail

The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. What a time to be alive! You have a mistaken model of the strategic motivations.

article thumbnail

How to Build a Location-Based AR Application

ARPost

Such applications use GPS data and digital compass, a combination that works pretty accurately, to determine one’s device location as well as its position. The location-based AR apps then send queries to the device’s sensors and decide whether they should add the virtual object based on the acquired data. Resolve the data question.

AR 219
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

And I’m also worried about using a Facebook account for everything XR related, because Facebook has a long history of obscure practices with the data of its users , apart from the standard “personalized ads” business. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data.

Unreal 434
article thumbnail

The Best University Courses To Learn Metaverse Skills

Bernard Marr

Basically, if the metaverse is the new internet, then everyone wants to be the new Google - holding the keys to the huge amounts of money to be made from selling advertising there. A computer science degree will teach you programming, as well as the fundamentals of data and database management, how hardware works, and networking.

Course 131
article thumbnail

The power of AI, VR and AR in medical imaging

Haptical

Oxford University study found that allowing patients to face their fears in virtual reality leads to significant reductions in anxiety. The study claims that patients are more willing to try out new psychological techniques knowing that the situation is unreal, thus reducing the effects of paranoia in real life.

AR 52
article thumbnail

Navigating the New Frontier of Extended Reality with Accenture’s Rori DuBoff

XR for Business Podcast

And the results on that, in terms of engagement, drive to purchase, we did some data research recently with SuperData, which is part of Nielsen now, on the increase of likelihood to purchase through mobile augmented reality — even virtual reality. Alan: So, I think Google’s leading. Yes, exactly. And Instagram as well.

article thumbnail

Navigating the New Frontier of Extended Reality with Accenture’s Rori DuBoff

XR for Business Podcast

And the results on that, in terms of engagement, drive to purchase, we did some data research recently with SuperData, which is part of Nielsen now, on the increase of likelihood to purchase through mobile augmented reality — even virtual reality. Alan: So, I think Google’s leading. Yes, exactly. And Instagram as well.