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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. Master Plan.

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

AR Insider

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. That brings us back to wearables. For more, subscribe to ARtillery PRO.

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This ‘Intelligent Carpet’ Lets You Tiptoe Through VR

VRScout

The Seamless Walk system ditches wearable hardware in favor of pressure sensors and machine learning technology. This information is then fed into a machine learning model that’s able to estimate the angle of your body as well as your general movement speed and translate the data into realistic virtual movements.

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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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WebAR to Wearables: AR’s 2020 Outlook

AR Insider

From WebAR to Wearables: The AR Moments of 2019 and What’s In Store for 2020. Spatial computing made its mark as a tool for learning, training and development: As we’ve become increasingly familiar with the positive effects AR has on attention and memory encoding, it was exciting to see AR’s adoption expand outside of a marketing context.

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These VR Gloves Track Your Fingers & Electrically Stimulate for Haptic Feedback

Road to VR

AI SILK is a Japanese wearable-tech startup that’s set to unveil a new haptic glove at CES 2023 next month which approaches both haptic feedback and finger-tracking in a different way altogether. Image courtesy AI SILK.

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Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs?

ARPost

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. They’re hiring technologists who are passionate about journalism and have experience with machine learning, and immersive SDKs like Spark AR. Guest Post.