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AR 101?—?A brief summary (Part 1)

ARVR

70s : Group of researchers at different organizations, such as NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of North Carolina, continued research in computer graphics and virtual reality (Krevelen, 2010). 2000s : First outdoor mobile AR game ARQuake. Evolution of Augmented Reality (Craig, 2013) by fernanda rodríguez.

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The Best University Courses To Learn Metaverse Skills

Bernard Marr

Basically, if the metaverse is the new internet, then everyone wants to be the new Google - holding the keys to the huge amounts of money to be made from selling advertising there. Huge companies like Facebook and Microsoft are throwing vast sums of money at their attempts to build, and therefore define, the metaverse.

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Facebook Acquires FacioMetrics To Add ‘Fun Effects’ To Photos and Videos

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

In response to the acquisition, it appears that all of the startup’s apps have been removed from both the App Store and the Google Play store.

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The Hot New Job That Pays Six Figures: AI Prompt Engineering

Bernard Marr

A prompt engineer is someone who is an expert at getting the new generation of generative AI applications such as ChatGPT or Google Bard to do what they want. And Boston Children's Hospital in Massachusetts is looking for prompt engineers to deploy large language models to assist with healthcare research and clinical practice.

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NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Officially Announced

VRWorld

Speakers include tech leaders from Adobe, Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, Argo AI, Audi, Baidu, Boeing, Facebook, Ford, GE, GlaxoSmithKline, Google, HERE, Honda, IBM, JP Morgan Chase, Lockheed Martin, Massachusetts General Hospital, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, MIT, NASA, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, NYU, Oculus, OpenAI, Pixar, (..)

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The power of AI, VR and AR in medical imaging

Haptical

AccuVein Brain Power is a Massachusetts-based company founded in 2013. It focuses on the practical application of neurobiology achievements using the latest wearable technologies, such as Google Glass. Let’s have a look at three companies that have achieved impressive results in AR: 1. Brain Power 2. Medsights Tech 3.

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Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple

TechCrunch VR

Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Apple was initially slow to provide a path forward for cloud gaming apps from Google and Microsoft, which had previously been outlawed on the App Store. Virginia and West Virginia.

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