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Meta Reveals Next Generation Aria Smart Glasses for Research and Experimentation

Road to VR

Since then, Meta’s first-gen Aria has found its way outside of company offices; early collaborations with BMW and a number of universities followed, includingCarnegie Mellon,IIIT Hyderabad, University of Bristol, and University of Iowa,which used the smart glasses to tackle the a host of machine perception challenges.

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Google Briefly Nuked the Internet Last Night

GizModo VR

internet users last night briefly experienced the dark, frustrating realities of a world devoid of Google services. Though Google has since resolved the outage issues, new reports suggest the disruptions may be tied to an “electrical incident” at a Council Bluffs, Iowa data center that left at… Read more. Large swaths of U.S.

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Big XR News from Meta, Microsoft, TeamViewer, Vuzix

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Meanwhile, the University of Iowa is using the Aria framework to develop healthcare services for individuals with hearing loss. By utilizing Aria environmental data, researchers at Iowa are creating devices that translate the direction from which sounds originate.