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What’s Facebook’s Wearables Master Plan?

AR Insider

This thinking holds up, but a less-discussed product class could have a greater impact in priming consumers for AR glasses: wearables. Meanwhile, tech giants are motivated toward wearables. For example, Apple’s wearables offset iPhone sales declines. Wearables: Paving the Way for AR Glasses. Social Experiment.

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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part VII: Facebook

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Wearables Wars” is AR Insider’s mini-series that examines how today’s wearables will pave the way and prime consumer markets for AR glasses. Each installment will profile a different tech leader’s moves and motivations in wearables. For one, it includes the thing that kicked off the current AR & VR era: Oculus.

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What’s Facebook’s Wearables Master Plan?

ARVR

This thinking holds up, but a less-discussed product class could have a greater impact in priming consumers for AR glasses: wearables. Meanwhile, tech giants are motivated toward wearables. For example, Apple’s wearables offset iPhone sales declines. Social Experiment That brings us back to wearables. Enter Project Aria.

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Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs?

ARPost

Their Oculus app allows real-time collaboration without ever leaving your home. They’ve raised over $22 million in funding for their AR wearables from seasoned investors like Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Greylock Capital, and Marc Benioff. See Also: Choosing the Right AR SDK: Mobile AR App Development Toolkit for 2020.

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Elon Musk Details ‘Neuralink’ Brain Interface Tech, Oculus CTO Calls It “very bold work”

Road to VR

Elon Musk unveiled Neuralink earlier this week, a startup that aims to not only revolutionize the growing field of brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), but eventually wants to make neural implants as common as LASIK outpatient procedures are today—that’s the long-term goal at least.

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From Brain-Computer Interfaces To Digital Humans: How These Technologies Are Bringing Us Closer To The Metaverse

VRScout

But just how far are we from becoming one with the metaverse and what can we learn about ourselves through sensory technologies? In June 2019, CTRL-Labs acquired patents from Myo, a similar wearable created by North that enables control of robotics and PCs via gestures and motion. Brain-Computer Interfaces. Eye-Tracking .

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Facebook Reveals Hand-tracking Update for Quest, Coming Early 2020

Road to VR

Oculus Connect 6 is starting today, and ahead of the festivities Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a video showing off some pretty nuanced hand interaction, something he says will be apart of his talk today. Update (1:15 PM ET) : Mark Zuckerberg announced on stage at Oculus Connect 6 that Quest will soon have hand-tracking.