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Augmented Reality in the Movies: When Fantasy Becomes Reality

ARPost

Items like Google Glass and Focals offer consumers today the ability to text, update their calendar and even control their smart homes directly from their glasses. It’s a red-tinted world explained by text and data popping up with each step he takes, providing context to each new thing he sees. More specifically, Google Glass.

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3 reasons why a Google Store in New York could succeed where Microsoft failed

Digital Trends

Microsoft ultimately shuttered its physical stores, but the Google Store in New York City could succeed where Microsoft failed.

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Google and Amazon Workers Fill Streets To Protest Israel's 'Project Nimbus'

GizModo VR

Those words echoed through the air outside Google’s New York City office as workers left for the day on Thursday evening. Outside, they faced a street packed with dozens of Google and Amazon employees opposed to Project Nimbus , a $1.2 “No justice, no peace, tech workers are in the streets!”

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The best AR and VR news from CES 2022

The Ghost Howls

Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. Qualcomm and Microsoft have announced a partnership to push together the next-generation lightweight AR glasses. Further, the announcement reveals plans to integrate Microsoft Mesh—the company’s multi-user XR foundation—with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces XR development tools. Road To VR.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

VPS won’t be available worldwide, though: the company is enabling its VPS system in select cities ?—?San San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for By the end of the year, the cities will hopefully be around 100. The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. Grayson has been a speaker on augmented reality and smartglasses at SXSW, Microsoft Cambridge, New York Fashion Week, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and most recently at MIT Media Lab. Near-eye Optics Basics.

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The New 3D Apple Arriving at WWDC

Robert Scoble

When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Why am I so confident? Disclaimer.

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