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Indie Dev Experiment Brings Google Lens to VR, Showing Real-time Text Translation

Road to VR

Google Lens is great for when you want to quickly translate a menu written in a foreign language, or visually explore the world around you simply using your Android smartphone. Considering however it’s using the full Google Lens suite of tools, we bet a lot more is possible.

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Arcturus Announces Microsoft MRCS Partnership at SIGGRAPH 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Microsoft has picked volumetric video company Arcturus as its primary marketing partner for its Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios (MRCS) solution provider. Arcturus’s Dimension Studio Arcturus will also provide licence and expertise support for studios seeking to partner with Microsoft’s MRCS network.

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TapID Uses Bone Conduction To Deliver A Better Typing Experience In VR

VRScout

Developers have explored potential solutions in the past, such as Google Daydream’s ultra-fun Drum Keys or Logitech’s VR compatible keyboards. TapID also uses touch input through a machine learning classifier to determine which one of your fingers is actually making the tapping motion.

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Big XR News from Google, ChatGPT, Vodafone, and Seoul Metropolitan Government

XR Today - Big XR News tag

Google Parent Alphabet Lays Off 12,000 Jobs Late last week, Alphabet, Google’s parent firm, laid off roughly 12,000 individuals. The move accounts for around 6 percent of Google’s global workforce. Google’s layoffs come just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees.

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Will Generative AI Mean The End Of Internet Searching And SEO As We Know It?

Bernard Marr

Before OpenAI’s Monday event announcing ChatGPT-4o , rumors swirled that the company was preparing to launch an AI-powered search product rivaling Google Search. Compare this to asking a tool like ChatGPT “What are the top attractions in Savannah, Georgia?” Microsoft Bing was the first to integrate ChatGPT.

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Google’s Gemini Versus OpenAI’s ChatGPT: A Comparison of Two Generative AI Tools

Ryan Schultz

Yesterday, Google announced that their generative AI tool, called Google Bard, had been renamed to Gemini, and was now finally available in Canada ( The Globe and Mail newspaper provides some background on why there was a delay ). It’s your primary tool for navigating files and folders.

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Book Review: Mark Pesce’s “Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech’s Next Big Thing”

ARPost

Pesce identifies these technologies as Microsoft Kinect, Keyhole (a forerunner of Google Maps), and the smartphone by way of Google Cardboard. Pesce introduces Microsoft’s original HoloLens as a “once in a decade, world-changing product” on par with the Macintosh computer and the iPhone. AR Hardware as Surveillance.