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CityXR: A Vision For Augmented Cities In The Shadow Of Hyper-Reality

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Matsuda himself subsequently began working in AR following the film's release, leading design teams at both Leap Motion (now Ultraleap) and Microsoft. For certain implementations, Psychic is using geographic data provided by the Japanese government for development uses cases like this.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.01): Facebook is very confident in Quest 2 sales, Valve is working on Neural Interfaces, and more!

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When I tried the Looxid Labs add-on for the Vive I’ve found it interesting, but its data were pretty noisy, and some community members defined it as “another random numbers generator”. Canon has just announced the launch in Japan of MREAL S1 , its latest mixed reality headset for the industry. Canon launches its Mreal S1 headset.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.10.21): Daydream is dead, Varjo VR-2 is out, Sony makes AR glasses and much more!

The Ghost Howls

VR-2 Pro adds an integrated Leap Motion and a 10m cable. Sony is offering a Ghostbuster AR experience in Ginza, Japan, and for this it has manufactured an AR headset. To have more details we have to wait for the reviews of people that will actually go to Japan to try this experience…. New Rumors on Half Life VR.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.31): Oculus becomes Facebook Reality Labs, Horizon gets revealed and more!

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Neuralink technology has evolved, and now it only consists of a tiny device that is more or less big like a coin that you install in your skull and lets the system read the data from many of your neurons. The device can connect via Bluetooth to a phone, where the data of the brain can be analyzed. This is a very interesting result.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. Location is at the heart of the AR Cloud.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

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While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. He has demonstrated even more original (and less scary) ideas for AR interaction while directing UX design at Leap Motion. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War.