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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.17): Half-Life Alyx will launch on March, 23rd, MWC has been canceled and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Augmented Reality is being a great tool for e-commerce: AR tools have increased the user’s likelihood of purchase by 11 times; Build.com found that the return rate after selecting items in AR has decreased by 22%. Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. More info (Use Google Translate).

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How Brain-Computer Interfaces Can Deliver On VR’s Promises

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. For example, how will a construction worker operate a “smart helmet” while simultaneously using tools or operating heavy machinery? Researchers in Finland are experimenting with brainwave analysis as a method for content curation.

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Solving Real-World Problems for Global Enterprise with AREA’s Mark Sage

XR for Business Podcast

I love some of the simple things; I remember being at a shipyard in Finland, and just using a tablet, they were showing me how they look into a new container that had been built, and how they could check what was going on, and using in an eight hour experience to make sure it was all correct. Vuzix and Magic Leap.

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Solving Real-World Problems for Global Enterprise with AREA’s Mark Sage

XR for Business Podcast

I love some of the simple things; I remember being at a shipyard in Finland, and just using a tablet, they were showing me how they look into a new container that had been built, and how they could check what was going on, and using in an eight hour experience to make sure it was all correct. Vuzix and Magic Leap.

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Letting Workers Qualify Themselves in AR, with AR Expert’s Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger

XR for Business Podcast

And the core of augmented reality is not– it’s not a measurement tool, it’s not a tool for everything. This is a tool to improve the way you’re telling stories, basically. AR is a good tool to make things visible. Also, for training processes, AR is really good thing, a tool to make things visible.

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Letting Workers Qualify Themselves in AR, with AR Expert’s Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger

XR for Business Podcast

And the core of augmented reality is not– it’s not a measurement tool, it’s not a tool for everything. This is a tool to improve the way you’re telling stories, basically. AR is a good tool to make things visible. Also, for training processes, AR is really good thing, a tool to make things visible.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

XR for Business Podcast

And I think, now that you mentioned that bHaptic suit combining with that, this is going to be a very, very powerful tool for enterprises. We saw that very early with mobile phones, with the BlackBerry being a very powerful business tool, and then becoming a consumer tool after that. or Finland? Alan: Finland, sorry.

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