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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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Virtual Pet Simulator ‘Stay: Forever Home’ Launches on Quest in April, Trailer Here

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VR pet simulator Stay: Forever Home is officially coming to Quest in April, bringing its loveable canine companion ‘Ember’ to both virtual and mixed reality. The post Virtual Pet Simulator ‘Stay: Forever Home’ Launches on Quest in April, Trailer Here appeared first on Road to VR.

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Real Pilot Battles Virtual Aircraft In “World’s First” AR Dogfight

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Could live-flight AR exercises be the future of air combat training? Labeled as the “world’s first” AR dogfight by Red 6 and EpiSci, this first test had a pilot stepping into a Freeflight Composites Berkut 560 experimental plane. For more information on this groundbreaking AR dogfight, visit here.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.12.28): Flight Simulator VR released, a new hack lets you use Quest without Facebook, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Happy Holidays , my dear AR/VR community! Even if these should be holidays, my will to inform you is not in vacation, so here you are my roundup of the best AR/VR news for this week. Microsoft Flight Simulator releases VR patch. The Lynx R1 is a mixed reality headset we are all curious about. Top news of the week.

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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. This is a panel discussion you won't want to miss! May 5, 2021 at 9:30 am PDT, 12:30 pm EDT, 5:30 pm GMT.

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AR Mirrors Take Window Shopping To The Next Level

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Augmented reality (AR) technology is proving to be an immensely powerful tool within the fashion industry. This is where ZERO10’s AR Mirror comes in. In addition to working inside brick-and-mortar stores, the AR Mirror can also be used as a standalone pop-up, digital poster, or interactive window. Image Credit: ZERO10.

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Augmented Reality in Robotics: How AR Enhances Robots

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Augmented reality in robotics can substantially improve productivity and worker safety in factory floors by improving digital simulation and optimizing human-robot interaction. See Also: AR and VR Technologies Guide Robots Towards a Smarter Future. In robotics, AR enables better visualization of potential robotic solutions.