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We Tried Snap’s AR Glasses And Had Our Minds Blown

VRScout

Unlike existing AR headsets such as the Magic Leap 2 or Microsoft HoloLens, the Spectacles feature a discrete, light-weight design more akin to glasses than a headset. While I found the experience a bit wonky at times, it was still an impressive use of the technology, one I hope to see expanded upon in future iterations.

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Book Review: Mark Pesce’s “Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech’s Next Big Thing”

ARPost

From the introduction, Pesce moves onto a history of computing and user interface beginning – where else – with Classical-Age Egypt. I wasn’t a close student of computing technologies before I started into tech journalism a couple of years ago.

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Educators make lemonade with Virtual Worlds

Hypergrid Business

Architecture students from Egypt and the United States meeting in Second Life. The challenges to overcome are still great, as is natural if the technology is going to keep pace with innovation. This is what Microsoft did in the 1980s with office automation. Image courtesy Jon Brouchoud.).

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Charlie: On the topic of technology, so, it’s great to work with them and all the collaborators. Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation. This has 50 augmentations, mostly from the sponsors. Alan: It is amazing.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Charlie: On the topic of technology, so, it’s great to work with them and all the collaborators. Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation. This has 50 augmentations, mostly from the sponsors. Alan: It is amazing.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

Before starting with the interview, a little disclaimer: my consultancy agency New Technology Walkers is collaborating with prof. I was very impressed and started to investigate what technology might be used to reproduce the model and make it more widely available to the people of the world.

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Augmented Birthday Parties and Virtual Reality Field Trips with Centertec's Bill Tustin

XR for Business Podcast

Fun, exciting XR technologies are revitalizing America's malls, and taking kids on field trips across the stars or through the pyramids; places they could never go in real life. In your experience, what has been the path that businesses have taken to get to the point where they're ready to invest in this technology? It was really cool.