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How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

AR Insider

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments. But our standards of precision are higher, and you deserve better.

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

But despite the option to “jack in” in the distant future, plenty of people will still opt to use the treadmill and haptics combo for the exercise benefits. Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. The visual input is the most important piece of the VR setup.

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Tech’s new “Digital Gods:” humans will soon be deeply integrated with tech

Robert Scoble

To underscore some of these changes, look at Apple’s patent disclosure of a head-mounted display that includes eye sensors, heart-rate sensors, etc. Early versions are named Apple Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Facebook Portal. “Hey Google, what is Spatial Computing? ” Google knows already.

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The Right Displays for Challenging Tasks: XR on Oil Rigs, with Shell’s Michael Kaldenbach

XR for Business Podcast

But for us at Shell, that means that we utilize a head-mounted display — in this case specifically, the Realwear — and it is used for our operators; for quick resolution, and to get remote expertise to be brought in. But where we really revolutionize that process is with a head-mounted display.

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The Right Displays for Challenging Tasks: XR on Oil Rigs, with Shell’s Michael Kaldenbach

XR for Business Podcast

But for us at Shell, that means that we utilize a head-mounted display — in this case specifically, the Realwear — and it is used for our operators; for quick resolution, and to get remote expertise to be brought in. But where we really revolutionize that process is with a head-mounted display.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. I’ve been studying this industry inside and out and I subscribe to Google Alerts for virtual and augmented reality. And it also wasn’t very comfortable to wear. Spending a lot of time in VR would sometimes cause simulator sickness.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford's Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. I've been studying this industry inside and out and I subscribe to Google Alerts for virtual and augmented reality. And it also wasn't very comfortable to wear. Spending a lot of time in VR would sometimes cause simulator sickness.