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XPANCEO smart contact lenses hands-on: AR prototypes from the future

The Ghost Howls

Together they joined forces with the mission of creating smart and AR contact lenses. The imagery was very simple, we are not talking about the menu of the iPhone, more like the menu of a home video game in the 80s: green straight lines and texts. And this was already fantastic.

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Meta Opens Project Aria to Researchers Tackling All-day AR Challenges

Road to VR

Now, Meta revealed it’s released Project Aria to a number of third-party research teams aiming to tackle some of the most complex challenges in creating practical, all-day AR glasses of the future. Announced in 2020, Aria doesn’t include AR displays of any type.

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Snap Spectacles Offer a Peek into All-day AR with New Geo-location Platform Update

Road to VR

Snap, the company behind Snapchat, introduced its fifth-gen Spectacles AR glasses six months ago, and now the company is releasing a number of new features that aim to improve geo-located AR experiences. Geo-location data also helped Niantic bring multiplayer to Peridot Beyond , its AR pet simulator exclusively for Spectacles.

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AR Briefs: The Convergence of AR and AI

AR Insider

This is the topic of a recent report and the latest episode of AR briefs. This post appeared first on AR Insider. But one looming question is how it intersects with the focus of this publication: spatial computing.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Meta & Plessey Announce Super Bright, High-efficiency Red MicroLED: an Important Piece in All-day AR

Road to VR

Meta announced in 2020 it was working with UK-based AR display maker Plessey , which was tapped to provide Meta with AR displays over the course of multiple years. Now the companies have announced they’ve developed what they’re deeming “the worlds brightest” red microLED display for AR glasses.

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Smartglasses: my experience at CES and the road to AR glasses

The Ghost Howls

Lightweight glasses The first lightweight (AI) smartglasses that I tried there have been Rokid Glasses , the latest device by Rokid, one of the leading companies in AR. These are very lightweight smartglasses that have speakers, a monochrome green waveguide display for notifications and small texts, and a camera to shoot photos and videos.

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