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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

VRScout

The Facebook team articulated a distinction between lightweight AR, requiring only your smartphone and available today, and ‘full AR,’ requiring a head mounted display, such as AR glasses. Google I/O : May 17-19, 2017. Apple WWDC : June 5-9, 2017.

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

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. Hand and finger tracking, gesture interfaces, and grip simulation: Leap Motion: Manus VR: Neurodigital: Gestigon: Handpose: Usens: Dexta Robotics: Minority Report (film). Neural plugins: The Matrix (film).

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A Brief History of VR

VeeR VR

It was a device that the user sat in-front of while their head was encased on four sides by a screen and they watched any one of five films, which all engaged sight, sound, smell and touch. In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

VR also dominated the pop culture, featuring prominently in films like “Johnny Mnemonic,” “Lawnmower Man” and “Virtuosity.” It’s easy to see how, in the early 1960s, such a system could be viewed as a logical next step beyond the film and television of the day. They were slick, they were robust.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important.

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