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ByteDance Files Pico 4 Patent Amid FCC Scandal

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Despite ongoing controversy over US data collection concerns, ByteDance continues its immersive journey through its virtual reality (VR) hardware division, Pico Interactive, and its augmented reality (AR) content distribution platform TikTok. New Hardware Leaks. Written for the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, and the CEO of Alphabet Inc.

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Will AR Transform Local User-Generated Content?

AR Insider

Visual search is Google’s main flavor of AR. It’s one way Google wants to future proof its core search business. A more visual front end — via Google Lens and Live View navigation — builds on mobile hardware, computer vision, looming 5G connectivity and gen-Z camera affinity. Visual UGC. Cloud Anchors.

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FLIPKART CAMERA-THE FUTURE OF IMMERSIVE SHOPPING

XROM

Few could fathom what started out as an April Fools’ Day collaboration between Nintendo, Niantic, and Google Maps would become a global phenomenon. At around the same time, Ajay Ponna Venkatesha and Sai Krishna V K were in the midst of executing their own plan to make Augmented Reality accessible in India.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.15): Facebook keeps working on its masterplan, WebXR arrives on iOS, and more!

The Ghost Howls

If you remember well, there’s a scary leaked letter of Mark Zuckerberg where he claims that he doesn’t want to just make programs that run on Android, because they’re subject to the rules of another company (Google). He wanted to own the whole platform so that he could do whatever he wanted. Steam officially arrives in China.

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‘Oculus Launch Pad’ Is Silently Populating The VR Content Pool

VRScout

’ “Some of my team members were based in Singapore, India, Canada, Hong Kong, and New York, while I was working from California,” Chen continued. However, adopting VR is a different story and there are a number of hardware, technical, design, and social obstacles that stand in the way.

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How Is Virtual Reality in Online Education Used?

ARVR

hardware and software. Hardware Most of the VR systems available today incorporate a headset or a visor that takes up the user’s whole field of view, as well as optional accessories, such as controllers, gloves, and distance sensors. Thus, the hardware is made by tech companies and the software by developers.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.04): Vive Flow teased, Valve Deckard leaked, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The new Oculus device was by the way another piece of hardware that was by chance “leaked” in a timely way so that to excite everyone for Facebook Connect 2. We are in the middle of a cheap shortage, and now Valve hardware product lines are devoted to the SteamDeck, so it’s improbable that a new production line is starting immediately.

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