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Is Wearability the Next Mobility?

AR Insider

“Trendline” is AR Insider’s series that examines trends and events in spatial computing, and their strategic implications. After a few years of excitement over the impending era of world-immersive AR, there’s a growing consensus that the technology is still years from bringing that dream to a pair of glasses that most people will wear.

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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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Can Wearables Set the Stage For AR Glasses?

AR Insider

A common AR industry sentiment is that the smartphone will pave the way for smart glasses. Before AR glasses achieve consumer-friendly specs and price points, AR’s delivery system is the device we all have in our pockets. There, it can stimulate demand for AR experiences. . Wearables: Paving the Way for AR Glasses.

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ARtillery Briefs, Episode 44: Wearables Pave the Way for AR

AR Insider

O ne of the common rallying cries of the AR industry is that the technology’s use in ubiquitous smartphones makes it a strong forbear to AR’s eventual manifestation in glasses form. We stand behind that concept, given that mobile AR conditions consumers to spatial experiences. Trojan Horse. Softer Landing.

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Will Wearables Pave the Way For AR?

AR Insider

Picking up where we left off in the last installment in this series, mobile AR is warming people up to spatial experiences, which could provide a softer landing for eventual AR glasses. Technologies such as LiDAR meanwhile unlock compelling and user-friendly AR that attracts more users. Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars?

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What’s Facebook’s Wearables Master Plan?

AR Insider

common AR industry sentiment is that the smartphone will pave the way for smart glasses. Before AR glasses achieve consumer-friendly specs and price points, AR’s delivery system is the device we all have in our pockets. There, it can stimulate demand for AR experiences. Wearables: Paving the Way for AR Glasses.

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Humane’s AI Wearable Displays Digital Info IRL

VRScout

Answer your phone by projecting an AR display on the palm of your hand. During the live demo, Chaudhri used the wearable device to project phone call information directly onto his hand. The demonstration also showed how the wearable can translate your voice effortlessly into another language in seconds.

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