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Facebook Messenger Introduces AR Group Effects

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Turn your next video call into an interactive party with Facebook’s collection of multiplayer AR experiences. Group Effects is a new feature available now on Facebook Messenger and Messenger Rooms that allows Facebook users to interact with a variety of AR experiences during group video calls.

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Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta

Road to VR

Apple is rumored to be working on two versions of Vision Pro, howevera new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman alleges the Cupertino tech giant is aiming to beat Meta to the punch with a pair of AR glasses. Creating the sort of all-day AR glasses Apple is aiming for is still a multi-year challenge though.

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CES 25: Attention Labs and 2Pi showed me the future of VR for audio and video

The Ghost Howls

When the demo started, our two small groups of people began speaking independently the one from the others, me just being interested in speaking with the Ghost, and Tyriel with the other engineer. The voice of the people in the other group was very attenuated , and I could only slightly hear it as if it was background noise.

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PICO Integrates OpenXR 1.1 for Simplified Immersive Application Development

XR Today - Virtual Reality

which Khronos Groups believes can reduce fragmentation and simplify advanced XR application development. Khronos Group is a non-profit consortium powering royalty-free interoperability for VR, AR, ML, 3D graphics, and other technologies. PICO has announced support for OpenXR 1.1,

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How Different Age Groups Can Use Virtual Reality

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What are some existing applications, and which populations benefit from them? Users from every age group can use VR but may use it for different purposes. These suggestions are not grounded in medical science, but they provide information on which age groups the hardware best suits. Children (13-18). Children (13-18).

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The Creator Of ‘Pokémon Go’ Is Building Its Own AR Metaverse

VRScout

Niantic, the developer behind location-based AR games such as Pokémon Go and Pikmin Bloom , today announced that it will be making its Niantic Lightship Augmented Reality Developer Kit available to developers around the world in an effort to build its ever-growing AR metaverse. Image Credit: Niantic. For more information visit here.

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Rumor: Apple Will Debut AR Headset & Tracker In 2021

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According to TF International Securities analyst and respected Apple researcher Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is set to debut a wide range of new projects this year, including the long-rumored “Apple Glass” AR headset and AirTag tracking device. Originally, Kuo reported a mid-2020 launch window for Apple’s AR headset.

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