The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

The Quest 2 is a great gaming machine offered at a ridiculous price, and it has totally crushed the competition. Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. Render of the possible upcoming Apple device (Image by Antonio DeRosa).

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AR Insider

JANUARY 6, 2021

It’s also naturally monetizable and Google is highly motivated to make it happen. As background, visual search has several meanings including reverse-image search on Google desktop. It takes form so far in Google Lens. It applies similar computer vision and machine learning to help users navigate.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2017

Augmented Reality has played a huge role at the developer conferences for Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Google, which is a great sign that the industry is moving towards spatially-aware computing. I also compare and contrast the recent AR announcements from Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook in my wrap-up.

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Upload VR

MARCH 10, 2025

Don't miss this opportunity to learn from the experts and stay ahead of the curve in MR development. Other machine learning functionality. Developers are able to run custom machine learning models against data from the real-time camera feed. What Is Passthrough Camera Access?

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AR Insider

MARCH 23, 2021

Key questions include, what did we learn in the past year? Apple integrated the technology in the iPad Pro last year, signaling that it would soon arrive at an iPhone near you. Apple Steps Further Into AR’s Future. But it will be transformative in narrower ways, and within a targeted set of use cases and verticals. Elevating AR.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In the last couple of years, AR has experienced tremendous growth and popularity as big technology giants like Google, Amazon, Apple have adopted the technology. The leading OEMs such as Samsung and Apple are expected to contribute to manufacturing more AR devices. The concept of augmented reality is no longer new.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2023

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.

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VRScout

MAY 20, 2019

If you’re not familiar with Reach Robotics line-up of kid-friendly robots, MekaMon are programmable machines which players can control via a smart device to battle digital opponents—both real and AI—in an augmented space; adding an additional layer of visual excitement to the conventional playtime experience.

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AR Insider

MAY 25, 2021

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.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they’re integrated their company’s smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit , making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone’s onboard processors and camera.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

At the same time, Facebook could have an approach similar to the one that Google has with Android: theoretically you can use an Android phone without a Google account, but good luck in doing it : since my phone is Chinese, I don’t have Google services and I can assure you that it is a true pain in the a**. Image by Google).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

Well, if the rumor becomes reality, this would mean that all next Apple devices will have both front and back depth cameras, for high-precision Augmented Reality and 3D reconstruction. Well played Apple. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google. Google releases Chrome 81. Other relevant news.

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AR Insider

JULY 2, 2020

For example, Google wants to build an Internet of places — revealed through Google Lens — by indexing the physical world just like it indexed the web. Mini-Apps and Machine Learning. It’s similar in concept to Apple’s subsequently released AppClips. and Facebook/Scape ).

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

It’s also monetizable, and Google is highly motivated to make it happen. As background, visual search has several meanings including reverse-image searches on Google desktop. It takes form so far in Google Lens. It applies similar computer vision and machine learning to help users navigate. Internet of Places.

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GizModo VR

MAY 18, 2022

One of Apple’s highest-profile return-to-office detractors reportedly landed a new gig at Alphabet’s DeepMind, marking the latest drama over Big Tech’s remote work scuffles. That move, ironically, comes right around the same time Apple decided to walk back its most recent return-to-office push Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

T he use of the Exynos chips makes me think even more that this is an old device : Samsung has recently announced that it is going to build its headset with Google and Qualcomm, so it is impossible that the to-be-released device doesn’t have a Qualcomm chip.

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AR Insider

APRIL 21, 2021

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. ” But it’s not alone.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Earlier in this series, we examined Google’s ambitions to create more direct user touchpoints (literally) that drive revenue-generating search by voice, visual and text. The story is similar for Amazon , Microsoft and Bose (kind of), and the 800-pound gorilla in wearables, Apple. Orbiting Initiatives. Social Experiment.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Today’s news will determine tomorrow’s leaders, so keep your ears on the ground to learn about tomorrow’s XR champions. In recent months, information about upcoming XR devices has flooded industry headlines, highlighting a competitive landscape involving major players like Meta and Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

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. Google halves its revenues on the Play Store. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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AR Insider

JUNE 7, 2021

Let’s dive in… Librestream has raised over $55M for its device-agnostic Onsight remote assistance platform, which puts “the human at the hub of the tech stack that includes Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), Natural Language Processing (NPT-3), and Augmented Reality (AR).

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ARVR

JULY 11, 2022

In AR, Apple is a good example of this, given its work to seed user demand and developer interest through ARkit and other mobile means. But greater impact could come from the web’s most traveled destination: Google. More specifically, Google continues to enable search results to come to life in 3D and AR.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The industry has been experiencing a boom in recent years with hundreds of startups and heavy investment from tech giants including Google, Apple, Samsung, and Facebook. Long before we learned to talk, we perceived emotions through subtle facial movements. Despite all the activity, AR/VR hardware remains relatively crude.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2021

However, in cases where a reliable Wi-Fi network already exists, Apple’s iPhone AR is good enough to handle indoor positioning using Wi-Fi RF patterns. Google AR Live View walking directions for Google Maps have improved since it first entered beta in August 2019. Contact us to learn more about how we can help you.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2018

But what’s especially interesting is the little assistant ‘Winnie’, which uses machine learning to recognize what you’re looking at in real-time, be it a friend smiling ear-to-ear, or a Coke can on your desk. We felt this was a big problem.” Right now, AR experiences are stuck in the App Store,” said Horrigan.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

To illustrate, readers will learn how VR helps kids and people with special needs learn to use an MRI machine. To learn more about these exciting and industry-changing applications visit the link at the top to get the report. The report has lots of interesting use cases for AR and VR.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to CBINSIGHTS , tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been acquiring AI startups aggressively in the last decade. Apple leads when compared with other giants in terms of acquisitions made. Most of the big giant companies in the world are investing heavily in the field of AI.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 2, 2025

Avid XR Today readers will be more than familiar with the big XR moments in 2024, including the likes of MR headsets, digital twins, Apple Vision Pro, Orion, and others; those moments are becoming history, however, and tomorrow’s innovations will take a stride. Last year was a busy year for XR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. Read about Google experiments with AR and wearables. A very interesting article on CNET highlights some of the experiments that Google has made with 1D glasses, smart tattoos and other cool stuff.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The tech industry is looking to replace the smartphone — and everybody is waiting to see what Apple comes up with. I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. Apple didn’t invent the smartphone — companies like Palm and Blackberry had been selling them for years. But Apple’s not the only company working on these products.

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ARVR

JANUARY 21, 2022

APPLE ARKIT 5 The latest version of Apple’s open source mobile augmented reality development toolset, ARKit 5 , offers significant improvements from ARKit 4. This past year, Google introduced a few new features for ARCore such as recording and playback APIs. These enable developers to record video footage with AR metadata.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As always, Apple’s lead will be followed by hardware commoditization by third parties, and falling hardware component costs that engender ubiquitous penetration. Apple could open up its platform in the manner of iOS, and tvOS. Image Source, Apple, Inc. Then it’s all about the apps and use cases that develop.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 28, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro Developer Kit, Apple’s collection of tools designed to support app development, has been available for a while now. In fact, Apple opened the program for applications long before the spatial computing headset ever hit the market. What is the Apple Vision Pro Developer Kit?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

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).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Will a little startup be able to beat the big behemoths like Apple and Facebook? I’ve studied at important universities like UC Berkeley, and I’ve worked on many technical projects (for work or personal interest) in electronics, optics, brain-machine interface , natural language processing, etc…. What is Kura’s story?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

I think the battle with Apple has just begun. This can be extremely useful to implement indoor navigation ; Vuforia Spatial Toolbox, that lets you integrate AR augmentations with industrial machines. Google Glass can help Autistic kids. A research project using Google Glass to help autistic kids has been published on IEEE.

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