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Unless there is an Apple drawn on it, of course. The mixed reality mode lets you put the machines in your room as if it were an arcade, and this is pretty cool Wanderer: Fragments Of Fate is a pretty solid game featuring very well-thought-out puzzles.
Probably the communication machine of the company is not as strong as before, so the old message still hangs around. Apple to launch a second “more affordable” headset in 2025. If it is true, it confirms that Apple has no mainstream plans for this device, and it will bet on true AR glasses for the mainstream.
The problem with big companies is that they are big and complex machines whose main goal is making money: any promise they make is worth nothing. Learn more and try the game Some XR fun Being a parent of a VR son can be tricky at times Funny link This is crazy: you can play DOOM inside a PDF file!
Here’s a list of the most popular free and paid Apple ARKit apps. During Apple’s WWDC event, Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering introduced ARKit , boldly declaring that “Apple will have the largest AR platform in the world.” ARKit Apps. ARKit Games.
Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro may be out in January According to the latest report on Bloomberg, Apple is still on track to release the Apple Vision Pro at the beginning of this year. I hope we will meet there and have fun together! Outstanding move. Good luck with that.
As Google Glass learned the hard way, there are deep-rooted cultural barriers that stand in the way of social acceptance. Similar to Apple’s work , this could take form in standalone hearables and “audio AR” devices; or as a component to its AR glasses. Social Experiment. That brings us back to wearables.
The announcement came on the company blog, and it reminds me a lot of what Meta announced a few months ago about Project Aria. Learn more (New policy on 18+) Learn more (Horizon is theoretically all 18+). Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.
Of course for some ad-based tech companies, the current economic situation is not the only problem, but there is another big one which is Apple and its new privacy features embedded into iOS. Then, PSVR Without Parole has reported that Sony has learned from the errors of the PSVR 1, and so it has made the cable of the PSVR 2 detachable.
Some of the news coming from there have been: NVIDIA announced new Grace Hopper chips to empower AI algorithms on server machines , and AI workbench to allow everyone to play around with AI models. This is how we learn to do proper content for what is going to be the next trend in XR.
If we pair it to the fact that this device is connected to a PS5, which is a quite powerful machine, we see that the whole system is truly the next-generation VR that PlayStation users (and not only them) were waiting for. More info (PSVR 2 unveiled) More info (Official blog post on PSVR 2 headset). Learn more. Learn more.
One of the consequences of the launch of Unity 6 is that Unity also finally released to the public the Unity beta package to develop for VisionOS, so that finally all of us Unity developers can start developing for the Apple Vision Pro, trying our prototypes on the emulator. Great job, Vuzix. opening a virtual manual at a certain page).
If I had to bet, I would say that the possibilities are two: Smartglasses to see the notifications of your phone A hybrid VR/passthrough AR headset, similar to Project Cambria or the rumored Apple headset. With the rumors intensifying, and with Apple always closer to entering the market, I am expecting an announcement for this year.
It showed what is its vision for the long-term future: AR glasses that are intelligent enough to learn about your behavior and to examine the context you are in so that to be able to already provide you suggestions about what they can do to help you. More info (Official Nreal website with purchase link) More info (Post on Vodafone DE blog).
And its ads business is under a crossfire attack: on one front, Apple with its new data policy is limiting how much data the Facebook app can collect about its users, and on the other one, the EU is trying to enforce its regulation about European people’s data not allowed to be sent to Facebook’s US servers. Image by Apple).
At the end of the day, I understand that Unity needs to monetize more because the economic conditions are s**t and Apple is killing its Unity Ads cash cow with its privacy shield. Learn more Volumetrics secure $1.1M Some developers I know are already switching to Godot or Unreal because they say that Unity can’t be trusted anymore.
What an exciting week for technology, with the Facebook Connect, PS5 price announcement, Apple event and the release of RTX30 graphics cards! Even Apple uses modified ARM chips. an ARM chips can be installed on IoT sensors that communicate to a server where an NVIDIA card is used to perform machinelearning on the data).
Why: America’s Manufacturing Renaissance at Risk America is experiencing an unprecedented manufacturing resurgence with over $7 trillion in new investments flowing into the economy from companies like Apple ($500 billion), TSMC ($165 billion), NVIDIA, Honda , and others.
Learn more by tuning into our podcast and EON-XR Spoken blog. Unlike traditional workforce initiatives, EON provides a complete ecosystem that transforms the manufacturing skills gap into an unprecedented opportunity for economic revitalization.
Today I am very happy to host on my blog Kura Technologies , one of the most interesting augmented reality startups out there. Will a little startup be able to beat the big behemoths like Apple and Facebook? What lessons have you learned during these years? You watch it and then tell me what you think about it in the comments!).
I think the battle with Apple has just begun. Two years ago, I reviewed on this blog a Unity plugin that Mozilla had released in beta to let you create WebVR experiences from your Unity projects. These augmentations can show the data of the sensors of the machines, but can also be used to change the logic the machines are implementing.
With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Is Apple partnering with Valve on AR? A report by DigiTimes claims that Apple is partnering with Valve for the production of its AR glasses. Machines can now see through walls. Top news of the week. Image by Google).
One that learns faster than anything most humans could imagine. It learns so fast that you only need to show it a few times how to do something and it’ll do that thing from then on. Is your happiness and income coming from you pushing a button on a machine? I had helped my parents and brothers hand build hundreds of Apple II.
Apple later bought his company. I created the first augmented reality app on Apple’s store on this blog. He says he isn’t raising funds right now but I’ve learned many times that entrepreneurs are always raising funds even when they say they aren’t. The way that first demo happened?
VR just passed the thorough of disillusionment and is here to stay thanks to investments in the AR/VR market by Facebook, Google and Apple. The Void parks provide physical feedback with physical walls built, special effects made with fans, mist machines, and heat lamps, as well as prop guns and torches and other items to be used.
The core machine-learning algorithms interpret the camera feed to generate a real-time stream of data points such as pupil size, gaze vector, and eye openness. Deep learning improves the effect in some scenarios. This is what the company says about its technology: “How eye tracking works in XR? Why would you want to do this?
In the last couple of years alone, we’ve seen everyone from major vendors like Apple and Meta to new innovators like XReal entering the AR market. Some solutions can even help with troubleshooting machines and systems, reducing expensive downtime.
An example of this is how it can be used to dream of virtual machines and text adventure games. Technical note: in all these comps I blur single vs. double precision & matrix vs. vector ops, so it isn’t apples-to-apple. How many virtual machines? exaflops (10¹⁸) 1.5
HOUSEKEEPING NOTICE: Yes, I know this blogpost is somewhat off-topic for a blog about “news and views on social VR, virtual worlds, and the metaverse,” but hey, my blog, my rules. Accordingly, I have created a new blogpost category, called Apple Vision Pro. This ensures seamless access to your files across platforms.
Back to Blog Page First, let’s define what we are talking about. It is a combination of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), (MR) mixed reality, the internet of things (IoT), AI (Artificial Intelligence), machinelearning and edge computing. AI and machinelearning: Google is a leader in AI and machinelearning.
With remote guidance AR technology, frontline workers can access real-time information about a machine or tool. Apple is already leveraging LiDAR to improve their apps’ light and detection range. A field technician could access various resources such as manuals, CADs, and live remote guidance from an expert or tutor.
The same analysis by Counterpoint mentioned above stated that the Apple Vision Pro had more shipments than IDC initially estimated , especially if we consider the International ones. If shipments were comparable to sales, we would have a number of sold Vision Pro similar to the initial estimates by Apple.
From a software perspective there has been increases thanks to Steam among other platforms as there are many more VR titles for example and both Android and Apple software ecosystems have been very supportive of AR development. and many other emerging technologies all working together to advance mankind.
As you’ve read in my other article written today , this is a special day for this blog… but it is also Monday, so I won’t skip writing a new amazing roundup of AR/VR news So, wishing you a happy Ferragosto (the name of today’s holiday in Italy), I leave you to the best XR news of the week! Apple MR headset may cost $2000+.
He founded the first AR blog in Germany, “WE ARE AR” and has been interviewed and quoted by leading media such as Tech Crunch, Venture Beat and Huffington Post. So it’s not about learning all of that new. So it means you need to tell your AR system and your camera and your algorithm when it sees a machine.
He founded the first AR blog in Germany, “WE ARE AR” and has been interviewed and quoted by leading media such as Tech Crunch, Venture Beat and Huffington Post. So it’s not about learning all of that new. So it means you need to tell your AR system and your camera and your algorithm when it sees a machine.
They sold this money machine to focus on a technology that is currently not making any relevant money. I myself have written a hugely detailed post on my blog to teach people how to get started with Passthrough Camera Access. This means that Samsung wont go all-in with hand tracking like Apple did.
He founded the first AR blog in Germany, "WE ARE AR" and has been interviewed and quoted by leading media such as Tech Crunch, Venture Beat and Huffington Post. So it's not about learning all of that new. So it means you need to tell your AR system and your camera and your algorithm when it sees a machine. So it closes the gap.
Apple headset may have been delayed again. A new week, a new set of rumors about the upcoming Apple Reality One, the most awaited headset in the history of XR. This week we got to know that Apple has just rebranded the operating system of the upcoming device from RealityOS (or rOS) to xrOS. Learn more. Learn more.
It’s also in the Apple bookstores today. We entertain, we dance, we sing and we learn because we tell each other “Oh, you know, don’t go there”, “There’s a line over there” W e’re just taking that to the next step. And I think that’s not just kids, but adults can learn the same way.
The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Bonelab is coming on Thursday. Some interesting XR research project.
Since there is the possibility that Apple announces its headset soon, all the companies are rushing to announce what they have in the pipeline before the big day. I’m also working on a cool tech prototype and I will share it with you very soon in the next few days on this blog. It’s been a strange week. Be sure not to miss it!
But I hope you’ll enjoy this newsletter coming from the world of the undead anyway… Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple starts accepting applications for Vision Pro devkits Apple has started accepting applications from interested developers to get a Vision Pro to develop XR experiences.
It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple. Regarding all the rumors about the use of tracked controllers, Mark Gurman stated this in his latest report: “ I’m told that Apple isn’t planning its own Vision Pro game controller, nor is it actively planning support for third-party VR accessories ”.
You can learn more about the great work that Anne and her team are doing at theboolean.io. Anne: One other thing is we learned very early on is that if we want to make it the best we possibly can, we have to collaborate with people who are from different backgrounds. And one of the posts I wrote recently on my blog at theboolean.io
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