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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

VRScout

Curious to learn more, I reached out to Joe Pavitt, Master Inventor and Emerging Technology Specialist at IBM Research Europe. Natural language processing is a type of machine learning that powers realistic conversation between humans and machines. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING.

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Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier Exhibit Puts AR and VR In The Spotlight

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New Frontier, a Sundance exhibit created in 2007, is the home of the more unique and pioneering techniques for storytelling in the film arena so it’s no surprise they’ll have a large AR and VR showing at this upcoming Sundance. VR is another beast entirely. “This is a profound and, in my view, a much needed perspective.”

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Why New Social VR App ‘Rec Room’ Makes You Smile

Road to VR

In a 2007 study from the same publication, this time trying to understand how we subconsciously mimic others’ human facial expressions, subjects were put in an fMRI machine and shown pictures of people exhibiting a range of basic emotions.

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Exclusive: Here’s How Fantastic Contraption VR Devs Generated More Than $1 Million

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It didn’t take them long to decide their legacy project, a 2D puzzle game called Fantastic Contraption that relied on creative thinking to build machines, could be adapted to VR. Learning New Skills. In 2007, the original Fantastic Contraption was built for traditional screens with Adobe’s Flash tools.

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Five Reasons to Buy XR Eye & Hand Tracking Tools in 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Even in 2007, when Apple announced the first iPhone, Steve Jobs was keen to get rid of the stylus for touchscreen management, arguing separate controllers and devices make using technology more cumbersome. This can lead to better productivity for teams working on machines with AR or MR guidance.

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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

AR Insider

I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. Eventually, Apple could take lessons it learns from the virtual reality headset and apply it to a pair of lightweight AR glasses with transparent displays. In factories, the headset can inform workers about how to fix or operate a complicated machine. by Kif Leswing, CNBC.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

How did you get involved in VR and learning? And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. It is transforming education by experiential learning. Alan: I’m really, really excited.

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