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Snapdragon AR2 to Empower AR Devices, Qualcomm Says

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The San Diego, California-based firm has become synonymous with delivering XR solutions capable of untethering head-mounted displays (HMDs) from PC. The smart glasses tether via a USB cable to process most of the computing on the smartphone and content is viewed on the head-mounted displays (HMDs).

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Rethinking Reality With ThinkReality’s Nathan Pettyjohn and Lenovo’s Bill Adams

ARPost

“Most of the Fortune 500 companies that we service already in other areas were saying ‘we believe in the technology, and what it can do for us, we’ve just got to figure out how to scale it’,” said Pettyjohn. They decided to base everything in the massively popular 3D development platform Unity.

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Top 50 Terminologies related to AR/VR

ARVR

How To Use the ARLOOPA App: A Step-by-Step Guide (2020) 3. In the context of virtual reality, a head-mounted display (also called HMD) is either a pair of goggles or a full helmet that users wear to fully immerse them in virtual experiences. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Augmented reality for maintenance and repair 4.

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What is Microsoft Mesh? Unlocking Mixed Reality

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Built on the Azure platform, Mesh combines multi-device support for desktops, VR headsets, and head-mounted displays (HMDs) with spatial audio, avatar creation tools, and more. You can combine the Mesh ecosystem with Unity for more advanced customization options. you’re probably wondering how to use it.

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WorldViz VR solutions help university research

Hypergrid Business

Although major game engines now come with built-in support for Oculus and Vive, Vizard’s support for all virtual reality hardware and head mounted display helps save a lot of time and development effort, said Hodgson. The university is now using Unity heavily. I’m anxious to see how that plays out.”

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How Will AR Transform Advertising?

AR Insider

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.04): Apple to launch its headset, Meta unveils Quest 3 and many games, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info Discover a Reconfigurable Mobile Head-Mounted Display This is the weirdest research project I’ve seen this week (thanks Ivan Aguilar for the tip). This is great news because MRTK 3 introduces better compatibility with Unity standard tools than its previous version. This is the dystopia we should avoid.

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