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The AR Location Wars, Part II: Apple

AR Insider

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. Part II: Apple . Look Around.

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Augmented Reality and Hearables: Where the Two Technologies Meet

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But AR/VR solutions are not limited to Google Glass, mobile apps for trying on shoes or accessories, and AR-based games. At the same time, personal voice assistants developed by tech giants — Alexa from Amazon, Siri from Apple, and Google Assistant — are standing at the forefront of the audio augmented reality market.

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Meta & Qualcomm Join “Multi-year” XR Chip Partnership to Combat a Common Threat

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And with Meta believing that it’s going to take a complete rethinking of the typical computing architecture to make the sci-fi vision of XR a reality , the companies will probably be prototyping together on that front as well.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.10.01): Meta Connect 2024, Apple Vision Pro refresh, and much more!

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Apple claims the M4 has a 50% more powerful CPU an d 4 times more powerful GPU than the M2 chipset mounted on the Vision Pro, so an M5 chipset may give the new Vision Pro unprecedented performances for a standalone MR headset. Big kudos to the team and good luck for the future! appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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XR Talks: Defining the AR Cloud, Part II

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Google’s Justin Quimby says this is okay as long as there are common languages — again like HTML today. ” Google could be the knowledge layer , Facebook the social layer , Microsoft the enterprise productivity layer , and Amazon the commerce layer. We have that for spatial positioning given GPS and altitude.

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Top 5 AR SDKs for Building Augmented Reality Mobile Apps?

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Although most people still consider AR as an entertainment technology, we can see its practical implementations in various industries like e-commerce, healthcare, architecture , training, and many others. Apple ARKit. In June 2017, Apple launched its own AR development kit, ARKit , while launching iOS11. Google ARCore.

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Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 Is A Higher End Chip For The Samsung-Google Headset & More

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It's a more premium option for higher-priced headsets, including those designed to take on Apple Vision Pro. It inherits all the advantages of the base XR2 Gen 2 architecture, including the hardware acceleration for camera passthrough that is said to reduce end-to-end latency to around 12 milliseconds.

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