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Meta Reveals Next Generation Aria Smart Glasses for Research and Experimentation

Road to VR

Since then, Meta’s first-gen Aria has found its way outside of company offices; early collaborations with BMW and a number of universities followed, includingCarnegie Mellon,IIIT Hyderabad, University of Bristol, and University of Iowa,which used the smart glasses to tackle the a host of machine perception challenges.

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Iowa State Athletics Will Use A Concussion-Detecting VR Headset

VRScout

The eye-tracking headset will be used on the sidelines to detect signs of player concussions in real-time. In fact the technology is so promising that Iowa State University has already announced plans to integrate the technology into their popular sports program.

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

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Essentially, theyre leveraging the outward-facing and inward-facing eye-tracking cameras on the Aria glasses, alongside other car sensors, to track where drivers are looking. Thanks to the eye gaze data they capture, researchers can identify when drivers might need extra alerts to stay safe on the road.

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

The Ghost Howls

If you built an application without these patterns, the device was useless… an eye-tracking add-on was more practical than the NextMind dev-kit in a VR scene. Basically, it was not reading my thoughts, and not even my intentions, but just analyzing my brain’s answers to pulsating patterns. In VR the obects appear closer than they are.