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What’s Facebook’s Wearables Master Plan?

AR Insider

This thinking holds up, but a less-discussed product class could have a greater impact in priming consumers for AR glasses: wearables. Meanwhile, tech giants are motivated toward wearables. For example, Apple’s wearables offset iPhone sales declines. Wearables: Paving the Way for AR Glasses. Master Plan.

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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part VII: Facebook

AR Insider

Wearables Wars” is AR Insider’s mini-series that examines how today’s wearables will pave the way and prime consumer markets for AR glasses. Each installment will profile a different tech leader’s moves and motivations in wearables. That brings us back to wearables. For more, subscribe to ARtillery PRO.

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Augmented Reality and Hearables: Where the Two Technologies Meet

ARPost

Hearables with augmented reality features are becoming ubiquitous thanks to the overall spread of wearables, the contribution of tech giants, and the growing demand for emerging technologies. Additionally, engineers train Deep Learning algorithms to accurately detect markers in live video data. How Augmented Reality Works.

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This ‘Intelligent Carpet’ Lets You Tiptoe Through VR

VRScout

The Seamless Walk system ditches wearable hardware in favor of pressure sensors and machine learning technology. This information is then fed into a machine learning model that’s able to estimate the angle of your body as well as your general movement speed and translate the data into realistic virtual movements.

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WebAR to Wearables: AR’s 2020 Outlook

AR Insider

From WebAR to Wearables: The AR Moments of 2019 and What’s In Store for 2020. Spatial computing made its mark as a tool for learning, training and development: As we’ve become increasingly familiar with the positive effects AR has on attention and memory encoding, it was exciting to see AR’s adoption expand outside of a marketing context.

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The XR Week Peek (2025.01.29): Google acquires HTC engineers, Meta plans to release Oakley smartglasses, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The problem with big companies is that they are big and complex machines whose main goal is making money: any promise they make is worth nothing. Thanks to this new technology, lightfields, which make AR objects appear more realistic, are closer than ever to fit into wearable devices.

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Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs?

ARPost

They’ve raised over $22 million in funding for their AR wearables from seasoned investors like Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Greylock Capital, and Marc Benioff. They’re hiring technologists who are passionate about journalism and have experience with machine learning, and immersive SDKs like Spark AR. Guest Post.