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HoloLens Optics Chief Joins Google Amid Reported Push for Upcoming Google AR Headset

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Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, has left the company to take on the role of Director of XR Engineering at the recently formed Google Labs. Now Kress is back at Mountain View working on Google’s next AR headset.

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AR 101?—?A brief summary (Part 1)

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Source AR 101?—?A A brief summary (Part 1) What is Augmented Reality? What are its features basic? What are some of Augmented Reality problems and challenges? Augmented Reality?—?Definition, In this article, you will find: AR definition, Basic features, and AR problems and challenges.

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The Apple Effect: Magic Leap Founder’s Previous Company Launches App on Vision Pro

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.” With the entrance of Apple Vision Pro, one such entity to follow suit is Stryker’s Mako , a robotic surgery group initially founded as a standalone company by Rony Abovitz, the founder and first CEO of AR unicorn Magic Leap. billion in 2013, or just around three years after Magic Leap was founded by Abovitz in stealth mode.

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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

AR Insider

The tech industry’s next bet is a series of technologies usually called augmented reality (AR) or mixed reality. Industry watchers and participants think that Apple has a good chance to validate and revolutionize AR like it did with smartphones. Where is Spatial Computing in its Lifecycle?

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Meta Expects to Ship 10,000 AR Dev Kits in 2017

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The Meta 2 augmented reality dev kit began pre-orders in March of 2016 and has apparently seen quite a bit of interest. The Meta 2 uniquely features an impressive 90 degree field of view that’s a huge step up in immersion from the company’s prior Meta 1 device and other AR headsets in its class. Photo by Road to VR.

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Airbus Launches HoloLens App to Train Future Airline Crews

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Passenger jet maker Airbus has created a Microsoft HoloLens app to train engineers and cabin crews. The app is part of Airbus’s greater plan to use mixed reality for training, an Airbus spokesperson told VRScout. Microsoft demonstrated JAL’s app last year. Jet engineering is going holographic.

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Apple’s Tim Cook Sees Opportunity In AR, But It ‘Will Take Some Time To Get Right’

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As the virtual reality industry makes its way through this highly important first year of commercial availability for its flagship headsets, it is being bolstered by most of the major tech companies. Google , Intel, Facebook and Microsoft have all either already begun or announced significant VR initiatives in the past 12-24 months.

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