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Sony’s Standalone MR Headset Now Called ‘XYN’, Release Date & Pricing Still to Be Revealed

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The display is capable of 90 FPS and 1,000 nits (at 20% duty cycle), with 96% DCI-P3 color coverage, putting it above Apple Vision Pro in terms of resolution and color accuracy. We got an opportunity to go hands-on with the pre-XYN prototype in July , back when it was still being referred to as the Sony SRH-S1 content creation system.

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Apple Announces ARKit 3 with Body Tracking & Human Occlusion

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At the company’s annual WWDC developer conference today, Apple revealed ARKit 3, its latest set of developer tools for creating AR applications on iOS. Apple also introduced Reality Composer and RealityKit to make it easier for developers to build augmented reality apps. Human Occlusion & Body Tracking.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.21): Quest 2 released, NVIDIA acquires ARM, Leap Motion 2 on sale, and much more!

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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. Or will it become a partner and will help mobile GPUs in Snapdragon reference designs in growing even faster? What a time to be alive! Check it out!

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How to Create an Augmented Reality App: Technology Guide 2022

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The camera uses the patterns on the actual book as a reference to display the AR content, a technology that is often used today on Snapchat and Instagram. Since location anchors are dependent on Apple Maps data, this means that if the city is not supported by Apple Maps, functionality for location anchors may be limited.

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VR’s Killer App May Be Full-Body Codec Avatars

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The “uncanny valley” refers to a well-known concept describing the discomfort people feel seeing faces that resemble humans but miss the mark in meaningful ways. And indeed, two other demos provided by Meta on either side of the live cross-continental call made clear just how far there is to go.

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Microsoft Announces Release Date For Minecraft Earth AR Sandbox Mobile Game

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.” Similar to the GPS-based exploration featured in existing AR experiences such as Pokemon Go and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite , Minecraft Earth will have you physically moving throughout the real world to discover new items, enemies, and mini-game experiences referred to as “Adventures.”. Image Credit: Apple.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

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So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. We’re excited to try this headset when it becomes available. Doug Lombardi, Valve. Learn more.

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