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Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announced Android XR The most important news of the week, and one of the most important of the whole year, has been the official announcement by Google of Android XR. Google has entered the field, bringing new validation to XR, and also new competition in the space.
Top news of the week (Image by Google) AI models to generate 3D scenes start to surface This week we had the announcement of two AI models dedicated to the generation of 3D worlds. These glasses should be built in partnership with Google and Qualcomm and have a similar form factor to the successful Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
Google starts testing its AR glasses in the wild. Google has announced that it is going to start to test the prototypes of its AR glasses in the wild. What is relevant about this piece of news is that Google has just confirmed its strong commitment to augmented reality. More info (Google testing AR glasses?—?Official
What if I told you that smart devices such as your iPhone and Google Assistant aren’t just listening to you, but persuading and manipulating your actions as well? For example, say you hop on Google at 4 in the morning and begin searching for more information on the early signs of cardiac arrest.
The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. And the same holds for Google, which is applying similar restrictions. References.
Generally, “the cloud” refers to remote servers that do work off of a device. For example, Magic Leap has had a partnership with Google Cloud for the past year now. Likewise, AutoDesk offers its XR cloud services through a partnership with Amazon. The bigger your XR needs are, the larger your software needs are.
Image Credit: Amazon. Sumerian by Amazon. Referred to as “hosts,” these digital chauffeurs act as tour guides throughout the scenes and can converse with users in a variety of languages using 50 different accents. The Varwin software interface is based on Google’s Blockly visual language.
The latter buzz term refers to a retailer’s ability to shift their products or services to meet changing customer demands. Walmart has unveiled its proprietary artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and immersive commerce platforms, which it says will improve shopping experiences.
Past attempts have been unsuccessful, such as Google Glass, due to reluctance and concerns over ethical issues such as privacy and security of AR glasses. Fast-forward a few years from the failing Google Glass, and now it turns out the popularity of smart-glasses has increased again, thanks to numerous new developments.
The reference to the tether is a clear statement about the fact that Sony aims at offering quality, and it is not interested in the casual gamers that are the target of the Quest (for now). Qualcomm announces AR Smart Viewer reference design. They are standard Quests , the ones you can buy on Amazon, BUT they have a business licensing.
If you want to know more, you can refer to the official pages of the A6000 and A40. For more info, you can refer to NVIDIA’s official post on the matter. Basically, it is like Google Docs for artists. Check with OEM vendors for details on availability. Cloud XR lands on AWS. NVIDIA Omniverse is coming in open beta.
Amazon acquires Umbra. Amazon has just acquired the Finnish company Umbra. The management of this digital map of the world is very complicated, and the acquisition of Umbra can be useful exactly for this, representing an important piece of the AR Cloud puzzle for Amazon. More info (Use Google Translate). Some XR fun.
I think that Gartner was not referring to the consumer market, where VR is still unripe (even if devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus are helping it in becoming more widespread), but at the B2B one, where VR is already helping companies to spare money (e.g. thanks to a better training). thanks to a better training).
Apple Intelligence on the Vision Pro would be a big deal, and especially it would let Apple compete better with Google , which made the integration with Gemini one of the best features of its Android XR operating system. This is impressive. The numbers are still not comparable to those of Quest, but they are still very good.
This is huge news because all the most popular XR headsets that are on the market are based on Qualcomm’s reference designs, so here we are talking about a technology that will pave the way to the next generation of XR headsets. The book is coming in March, 2024, but can already be preordered on Amazon.
Google parent company Alphabet announced layoffs on Friday of roughly 12,000 workers, totalling 6 percent of its global workforce. The news comes just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees. Workers in the United States will be the first affected. Today is certainly one of them.”
Following a recent Christmas break where he says he studied a robot vacuum cleaner, tested all available voice-input devices for the home (such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers), and watched every Black Mirror episode, it was voice control that excited Sony’s head of Magic Lab the most.
After examining Amazon , Microsoft , and Google , it’s time to zero in on Bose. For a frame of reference, Apple’s path to audio AR could follow its early iPhone progression in launching a developer platform and app store. But what’s everyone else doing?
Amazon Glow is a video projector for kids. Amazon has just announced Glow, a product to make people interact and play with children remotely. This doesn’t seem to refer to what a competitor is announcing, so I speculate is one of the early prototypes of the upcoming Quest 2 Pro. NVIDIA CloudXR is now available on Google Cloud.
Way back in 2019, Amazon announced that, going forward, any old idiot off the street could provide answers for its voice assistant Alexa to read aloud in response to questions from Alexa users. It turns out that many people played along, though perhaps not in the way Amazon intended. Credit: Screenshot: Amazon. Thanks, Alexa.
An Amazon ad appearing on the streaming platform Peacock shows the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S and the caption: “Meta Quest, starting at $299.99”. Regarding the actual release date, we have also a rumor: someone spotted on the Australian Amazon page an entry about the Quest 3S and the availability date being October, 16.
Straight after receiving the email I reached out to Pimax expressing my interest in testing their new Sword controllers, and provided references to some of my previous articles for Skarredghost. Google searches are very revealing. Pimax headset listed on Amazon (Image by Amazon, provided by Rob Cole).
And Quest 2 is much cheaper (especially now that has been put at $199): during the last holidays, it outperformed the Quest 3 by a factor 3:1 on Amazon US. Notice that all of this refers to VR applications. There are between 20 and 30 million of Quest 2 out there, while only 1M of Quest 3.
Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores.
Qualcomm releases XR2 5G reference design. Qualcomm has finally released the reference design for AR/VR headsets based on the XR2 chipset (a special version of the Snapdragon 865 for XR headsets), and it will pave the way for the standalone headsets of the future. (Image by Qualcomm). Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games.
Furthermore, the showcase of such a device by Meta has surely created some anxiety in its competitors : Apple, Google, etc… may act cool on the outside, but for sure on the inside are trying to get information about Orion, and are working hard to build something better than that. That’s why I’m very cautious about it.
Qualcomm is the company making almost all the chipsets and the reference designs upon which almost all XR headsets of nowadays are based upon. At the beginning of 2020, the American company will finalize its reference design based on this chipset, and in the second half of the year we will see the first headsets implementing this technology.
8th Wall recently partnered with Amazon Sumerian on a WebAR ad experience where, with just a click of a banner ad, an AR experience placed a 3D Spiderman into your space for you to interact with directly in your mobile browser. Just imagine a world where Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have bodies.
Big names such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google are rapidly developing the technology, making it accessible to many industries. Mobile AR refers to the Augmented Reality experiences that you create through mobile devices, such as smartphones or tablets. Apple and Google played big roles in this.
Likewise, Google's parent company Alphabet announced plans to reduce its global headcount by 12,000 – a cut of around six percent. It’s widely thought that Google is working on its own AI-powered answer to ChatGPT that will be announced soon.
Youtuber Brad Lynch of the channel “Sadly It’s Bradley” has discovered, thanks to “a tip”, some references to a device codenamed “Deckard” inside some SteamVR firmware files. Analyzing the references, it seems that Deckard is a standalone VR headset. Valve is working on a standalone VR headset codenamed “Deckard”. Some news on content.
NVIDIA is a strong partner of Qualcomm and surely this solution is made to be used with the future standalone headsets that will be powered by XR2 Reference Design. Valve is also releasing all the sources of the maps of the game as references for the devs to understand how to create their levels. Discover (and buy) the book on Amazon.
Or e-tailers like Amazon may make revenue from e-commerce while also acting as a marketplace where other sellers can offer their goods in exchange for a cut of the profits. It is behind the rise of companies like Google and Facebook, which match users to products and services using AI and analytics.
This was a bit the philosophy of Google Daydream View, that was the first headset employing this kind of materials. The Quest can be acquired in China from Amazon US , or from various resellers on Taobao. It can be bought on Oculus website, on partner e-commerce sites like Amazon or even in offline shops like Best Buys.
Tilt Brush, Google 47. The Oculus Quest is available for preorders on Oculus website and on the website of selected partners (like Amazon and Best Buy). Oculus doesn’t ship to China, so the suggestion of Chinese magazine Yivian is to order it from Amazon US indeed and specify a Chinese address. Oculus Quest specs.
If, like many people, you’ve only just started taking notice of AI after coming across one of the most recent viral applications, you might be wondering how they relate to what we've traditionally referred to as "artificial intelligence."
These terms are simply used to refer to tools that allow anyone to create AI applications without having to get their hands dirty writing technical code. Amazon SageMaker. Amazon has extensive experience building and deploying ML models into consumer-facing use cases, and SageMaker aims to let anyone take advantage of that expertise.
AI has been described as the most transformative technology of all time – by none other than Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Chatbots and virtual assistants: Providing advice, help and support to customers using natural language processing (NLP) technology similar to that used by Apple’s Siri or Amazon Alexa.
This refers to applications that use algorithms (a set of instructions) to become increasingly good at performing a particular task as it is exposed to more and more data relating to that task. AWS Open Data Search – Another dataset search engine, this one, is provided by Amazon's AWS service.
These have evolved rapidly thanks to the emergence of online giants like Amazon and Google, digitally-native niche players like AirB’n’B, Expedia and Netflix, and heavy investment by established industry leaders such as Walmart and Tesco. It has also fundamentally affected many traditional business models.
Huang presented NVIDIA NIM — a reference to NVIDIA inference microservices — a new way of packaging and delivering software that connects developers with hundreds of millions of GPUs to deploy custom AI of all kinds. Their goal in life is to generate revenues, in this case, intelligence.” The industry has already embraced Blackwell.
Some are digital natives, like Amazon, and some switched to e-commerce models or adopted them to augment “traditional” retail models, such as Walmart and Tesco. Today, a wide spectrum of businesses, from social networks like Facebook to software services providers like Google, generate revenue by displaying advertising to their users.
It refers to systems designed to respond to a particular set of inputs. Other examples of traditional AIs are voice assistants like Siri or Alexa, recommendation engines on Netflix or Amazon, or Google's search algorithm. Let’s unpack this question in the spirit of Bernard Marr’s distinctive, reader-friendly style.
This review will reference some of those specs, but it is primarily about the actual experience of using the product. On Quest you can bring up the browser without minimizing the immersive app, so you could be standing next to a friend in a VR game while you quickly Google something. But Google said no, he claimed.
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