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AR Fan Engagement From Universal and HBO: Dinotracker AR App and ‘House of the Dragon’ Snapchat Lens

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Where each dinosaur appears and how it behaves varies based on the user’s location – fueled by semantic understanding provided by Niantic ’s software. These features are enabled through hand-tracking. That effect involved a dragon attacking New York’s Flatiron Building. The Desktop Experience.

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Apple is Prepping Retail Stores for Vision Pro Debut

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In October, Apple introduced Vision Pro developer labs in New York City and Sydney, allowing a wider breadth of developers to test their apps on the innovative device with assistance from Apple employees, engineers, and experts. These sessions help developers optimize their visionOS, iPadOS, and iOS apps for the new platform.

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CGS to Demo Immersive Learning Service at AWE 2023

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Using virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), clients for the New York City-based firm can tap the new features to instruct and upskill their workforces. Trainees can monitor and report progress via CGS’s hardware and software solutions. What’s in the Solution?

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

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T his standard, dubbed OpenXR, was about the interoperability of different VR hardware and software together. An eye-tracking accessory built for Vive should work with Rift as well, and so on. All hardware and software should be able to work also with products of other vendors. Other relevant news. Image by Oculus).

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The XR Week Peek (2022.10.18): Meta announces Quest Pro, new rumors about Apple, and more!

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Recently Valve has published this job listing: We are looking for versatile, self-directed software engineers in computer vision who can help us achieve the next steps in VR with millions of customers world-wide. New info about IVAS glasses. More info (Quest 2 software sales estimates) More info (Horizon Worlds users).

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Apple Vision Pro Review: A Portable But Heavy Cinema & Monitor With A Promising Spatial OS

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Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Read on for my breakdown of the Vision Pro hardware and software and the experience they enable. Could this be an unintentional tradeoff of the darkened glass frontplate, or is it solvable with software tweaks?

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The best AR and VR news from CES 2022

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Of course, the object must be in the FOV of the cameras of the headset to be tracked, even if HTC says that the tracking can somewhat continue also when this condition is not true (i guess using just IMU data). I think that this tracker can be very useful. Further references. Shiftall MeganeX.

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