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7 Practical AR Uses In Healthcare

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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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Actress Elizabeth Banks Brings Pedigree To VR Animation ASTEROIDS!

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Cheez is voiced by Banks and will add to a film that is an official selection for the Sundance Film Festival that takes place in Park City, Utah from January 19th to the 29th. A sneak peak at the film is available on Samsung Gear, Google Daydream, and the Oculus storefront starting today.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Partnering with National Geographic to show off the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah in full 360 degree glory, Facebook took its first steps into live spherical video. Available through the Google Play Store, the app allows users to navigate around the 360 degree content with their remote control.

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Smart Glasses? It’s all about perspective.

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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.

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Students Hack Positional Tracking onto Gear VR with SteamVR Tracking

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In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only.

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

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Adam Marblestone, a research scientist at Google DeepMind and PhD in biophysics from Harvard, isn’t so starry-eyed about the initial launch of Neuralink’s N1 tech though. “They are climbing Everest with bigger team/better gear (engineering).

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Researchers Transform Real Soccer Matches into Tabletop AR Reconstructions

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The FIFA World Cup finals are nearly here, and while we still live in a time where most everyone interested in the France vs. Croatia match will be glued to a TV set, researchers from the University of Washington, Facebook, and Google just gave us a prescient look at what an AR soccer match could look like in the near future.

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