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Niantic Reveals Snapdragon AR2-powered Headset Reference Design for Outdoor Use

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Now the company has revealed that it’s been working with Qualcomm on a reference AR headset based on the Snapdragon AR2 platform. Niantic has been quietly developing a sleek reference design for what the company is calling an “outdoor AR headset.” Image courtesy Niantic.

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Qualcomm’s Latest AR Glasses Reference Design Drops the Tether, Keeps the Compute

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Qualcomm has revealed its latest AR glasses reference design, which it offers up to other companies as a blueprint for building their own AR devices. ” Beyond the extra wireless tech, the company says the latest design is 40% thinner than its previous reference design. Image courtesy Qualcomm.

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Qualcomm Announces Tethered AR ‘Smart Viewer’ Reference Design with Onboard Co-processing

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Qualcomm, maker of chips and technologies for mobile devices, today announced a reference design for a tethered AR headset which is tethered to a phone or PC but also contains its own chips to handle some onboard processing. The company calls the split-processing approach an AR ‘smart viewer’ headset.

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This Technology Can Turn The Real-World Into Living Art

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Researchers can take an image and use it as a reference point to create a virtual world, object, or person. Using various reference images, the research team of Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Feng Liu , and Lei Xiao were able to generate stylized 3D scenes that could be used in a variety of virtual environments. Image Credit: Cornell University.

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XR Technology Conference AWE Goes Live

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We weren’t able to cover everything at the massive XR technology conference, but we’ve collected some of our day one highlights. See Also: XR Technology at AWE and the Auggies: Exclusive Content From Ori Inbar. Inbar confessed that the recording wasn’t from the future, although the technology may be. Ori Inbar’s Welcome Address.

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Study Shows VR Technology Can Have A Positive Psychological Impact During Lockdown

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How immersive technology is keeping users sane during the coronavirus pandemic. Thankfully, we have now have access to an extensive array of VR technology that allows us to escape our dreary reality. The end results showed that VR technology played an integral role in keeping participants calm and connected while under lockdown.

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Zylia’s 3D Audio Technology Could Be The Start Of Virtual Concert Halls

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ZYLIA 6 Degrees of Freedom Navigable Audio, as it’s referred to by the company, allows operators to record musical performances, Q&A’s, panels, and other live audio by capturing all audio within the spherical sound field of each and every microphone and recreated in VR. You can go to the balcony or the last row and acoustic changes.