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Meta Reveals Next Generation Aria Smart Glasses for Research and Experimentation

Road to VR

The company revealed its first iteration of Project Aria back in 2020, showing off a sensor-rich pair of glasses which the company used internally to train its machine perception systems, ultimately tackling some of the most complex issues in creating practical, all-day augmented reality glasses of the future.

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

Road to VR

Project Aria is a pair of sensor-packed glasses which Meta has been using internally to train its augmented reality perception systems. Announced in 2020, Aria doesn’t include AR displays of any type.

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What is Project Aria and What Does it Mean for Meta’s Orion Glasses?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The Basics Project Aria, introduced by Meta in 2020 , is a research project created to help Meta develop its first set of wearable augmented reality devices. On a broad scale, it was the first evidence that Meta wasnt just interested in creating virtual reality headsets or software like Horizon Worlds. What is Project Aria?

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EON Reality and Eastern Iowa Community Colleges (EICC) Open Interactive Digital Center in Davenport, Iowa

EON Reality

IRVINE, CA, June 11, 2018 – EON Reality, the world leader in Virtual Reality based knowledge transfer for industry and education, and Eastern Iowa Community Colleges (EICC) announce the opening of an Interactive Digital Center (IDC) in Davenport, Iowa. EON Reality’s Davenport IDC is located at 101 West Third St.

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Eastern Iowa Community Colleges grand opening of EON Reality Interactive Digital Center

EON Reality

Eastern Iowa Community Colleges invites the public to the grand opening of its EON Reality Interactive Digital Center on Tuesday. The center will be available to local manufacturers and businesses developing virtual and augmented reality training for their employees. For more information, visit www.eicc.edu/eonopening.

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VR Innovation Academy at EICC Now Recruiting

EON Reality

Eastern Iowa Community College (EICC) teaches the skills needed to create Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality applications for enterprise and education. Award Options for Virtual and Augmented Reality. Find out how you can get started on an exciting career and earn an accredited certificate. Certificate.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.28): GDC, GTC, Snap’s acquisition of NextMind, and more!

The Ghost Howls

When you are in virtual reality, you see the objects closer than they actually are. I think it was only me that had this problem, but a new article published by the Iowa State University shows that this is a common situation: people doing the test had a perceived distance to virtual objects that was 75% of the real one.