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The 300th XR Week Peek (2023.04.10): Meta innovates image segmentation, Chrome implements WebGPU, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This research work is disruptive because it can detect whatever kind of objects, even the ones it has never seen during training. Glasses could also highlight the objects the user has in front of him/her during a training experience or while he/she is following a certain recipe. Let’s see if this will bring real benefits to WebXR.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.10): Lynx launches MR standalone headset, Facebook acquires Scape and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.08): Xiaomi unveils its smartglasses, Improbable and RP1 want to create the networking for the metaverse, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

There is only one big problem: the form factor is terrible , they look super-dork, even worse than Google Glasses. Conjoined twins surgery was aided by VR training. Meta wants to help developers in creating hand-tracked experiences. copy-paste) on how to implement hand tracking in their own experiences.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.13): Lynx now aims at the consumer market, App Lab to enable DLCs, and more!

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French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. The standalone headset still features passthrough AR/MR, XR2 chipset, dual 1600×1600 LCD panels running at 90Hz, Ultraleap hands tracking.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

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This means that if you are in Google Earth VR in a green room where there is a friend of yours, you can see the city that you are visiting all around you, and the real image of your friend being there with you. And apart from being “cool”, it also serves the purpose of making mixed reality training and design solutions more efficient.

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Snapdragon AR2 to Empower AR Devices, Qualcomm Says

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Brian Vogelsang : Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen tremendous adoption of VR for commercial use cases in verticals like health and wellness, training and immersive learning, and others. We’re now bringing that directly to developers, who can download the software development kit (SDK) for Unity or Unreal Engine.

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The best AR and VR news from CES 2021

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I foresee a market for this kind of glasses since they are beautiful to be worn and so they could be used outdoor to watch media (maybe on a plane or a train), but I think the price will be a determining factor to decide their success. Google AR Cloud Streaming. Read more about this news on Google Blog. Pollen Robotics.

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