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AWE Day 3: The Most Wholesome Day in the History of XR Technology

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There were also huge announcements from Unity, HP, Microsoft, and others. For example, how does someone with Parkinson’s navigate gesture controls? HP and Microsoft. Designers also brought in two extra side-facing cameras to increase the range of gesture controls – a trick borrowed from Microsoft’s HoloLens.

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A Closer Look at the HP Reverb G2

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For example, the Reverb uses LCD displays, like the Rift S. Where the Reverb really comes into its own is gesture control. Both Valve and Microsoft collaborated with HP on the headset. HP’s Reverb G2 is the most recent example of a lot of the best things happening in XR technology right now. Why We Love It Already.

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The Future Of The Royal Navy’s Combat Systems Is AR

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Instead, these crewmen will receive AR data through a Microsoft HoloLens that BAE hopes to scale down to something more lightweight and easier to wear during a typical bridge watch officer’s shift. However, bridge watch officers won’t be using the Striker II pilot helmet specifically.

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How does Virtual Reality Work? The Ultimate Guide

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There are no advanced “spatial computing” features like sensors or gesture controls. Instead, you use controllers to interact with a digital landscape. Driving simulators are perhaps the best example of this. Tools like the Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 are examples of fully immersive headsets.

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How Are XR Firms Leveraging Artificial Intelligence? 

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AI allows users to interact with the hardware and software in the XR landscape more effectively and paves the way for everything from gesture control to haptic feedback. According to Microsoft and NVIDIA, AI will help to fuel the next wave of automation in the XR space and empower companies to accomplish more with fewer resources.

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What to Expect from Apple in the AR/VR Space

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iDropNews/Martin Hayek Prosser suggested those will be called “Apple Glass” and be offered at a starting price of $499, significantly more affordable than some of the existing alternatives, by Google and Microsoft , for example, which are more enterprise-focused. They will be wirelessly charged on a special stand. Tim Cook, CEO of ?Apple

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AR Smart Glasses: Expert Roundtable

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Using assisted reality smart glasses, the wearer of the device can connect with colleagues via video conferencing applications such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, where experts on the other end of the line see what the worker sees (point of view) as s/he observes a specific scenario in a factory, for example.

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