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7 Practical AR Uses In Healthcare

ARVR

In Utah, Orca Health has experimented with a medical AR app called EyeDecide, which allows eye doctors to visually demonstrate to patients how cataracts can affect the eye. That’s where products like Google Glass come in. During consultations, patients can use AR to better understanding their conditions.

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Smart Glasses? It’s all about perspective.

Infinityleap

While there were various attempts to realize such device over the past decades, Google definitely has the prerogative of raising the awareness of the general public for this technology. Its Google Glass finally unlocked the market of smart eyewear in 2013. appeared first on Infinityleap - Technology stops for no one.

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Students Hack Positional Tracking onto Gear VR with SteamVR Tracking

Road to VR

In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. Since Valve opened SteamVR technology to third parties for free , it has become easier to create tracked peripherals and other hardware.

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Digital Frontier: Where Brain-computer Interfaces & AR/VR Could One Day Meet

Road to VR

And while these well-funded companies can only push the technology forward for its use as a medical devices today thanks to regulatory hoops governing implants and their relative safety today, eventually the technology will get to a point when it’s both safe and cheap enough to land into the brainpan’s of neurotypical consumers.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.01): Sony confirms PSVR 2, Facebook teases Quest 2 Pro, and more!

The Ghost Howls

MWC Shanghai 2021 showcased some XR technologies. Even cooler, the 3D models of the lamas get downloaded from Google Poly (a-ehm, someone should tell the devs it is shutting down) and rigged on the fly by artificial intelligence , so they can move in the space. More info (Qualcomm AR Viewer?—?Road The Verge). Learn more.

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NVIDIA’s Greg Jones: The 5G hype is justified, it’s going to be a huge advantage for XR

The Ghost Howls

I spoke with him about AR, VR, 5G (on which he’s very confident), cloud, and all the technologies we love the most. The key is using a combination of technologies like late latch or synchronous timewarp, those types of strategies that manage that latency or hide that latency. 5G will make all our lives more connected.

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Web-Based Augmented Reality for E-Commerce, with Seek’s Jon Cheney

XR for Business Podcast

We wanted to make augmented reality easier to find and access, and make this a technology that was more accessible. ” That’s a really cool use case to combine this online and offline experience using a very, very easy to use simple technology. And the different use cases they find about technology.