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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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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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Data and User Consent: A Balancing Act in XR?

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At its core, XR depends heavily on data to collect information and deliver personalized, real-time experiences. What are best practices? This post appeared first on AR Insider. However, this reliance raises serious questions about privacy and transparency.

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Spatial Beats: Harvesting AI Data & Cutting Corners

AR Insider

The New York Times exposes big tech data harvesting and The Washington Post skewers Humane's AI Pin. This post appeared first on AR Insider. We have these and other items at the intersection of AI and XR through the eyes of Charlie Fink.

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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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Apple Maps Update Introduces AR Navigation

VRScout

This latest update also introduces AR walking directions to the navigation app. AR navigation is expected to arrive this September alongside a slew of other updates as part of iOS 15. As previously mentioned, Apple Maps’ AR navigation works similar to Google Maps Live View. Image Credit: Apple. Image Credit: Apple.

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How Artificial Intelligence Can Reshape AR, VR, and MR Technologies

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How is artificial intelligence used to enhance emerging technologies, particularly AR, VR, and MR? Artificial Intelligence in AR. However, some strategies that use AR are limited by traditional and non-AI approaches. See Also: AR Apps With Artificial Intelligence in 2021.