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What’s Snap’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. Intelligence Gathering.

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Feel The Future With Interhaptics’ New Design & Development Tools

VRScout

Pinpointing multiple areas where this is the case, Vezzoli shares where developers can make the most impact: notifications or UX/UI confirmation, immersion for emotional connection, contextual or spatial awareness, such as smart clothing or wearables, and remote presence applications. “We Image Credit: Interhaptics.

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WEART, MAIZE Partner to Drive Immersive Training Adoption and Innovation

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Leading into the new year, virtual reality training is growing as the broader XR market also emerges as a tool for work and everyday life. The duo deployed realistic digital training tools to MAIZEs deep client list. This leads to unnatural movements and interactions, which can skew simulation results.

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Live Event Augmentation Tool MXR Hits The XR Market

VRScout

New XR visualization tool, MXR (Mixer), has been developed to compete in crafting the future of live event and fan experiences. Marketed as “a new tool for a new generation of concert visuals” by its boutique studio, &Pull, MXR has been in development for two years and is now available for private beta access.

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8th Wall’s New WebAR Tool Moves Us Closer To The Metaverse

VRScout

It could even change the meaning of responsive web design for the next generation of devices, including wearables. The post 8th Wall’s New WebAR Tool Moves Us Closer To The Metaverse appeared first on VRScout. Image Credit: 8th Wall. Existing developers can simply log in and begin building. Feature Image Credit: 8th Wall.

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VR Haptic Feedback Wearable Feelbelt Lets You “Feel” The Entire Frequency Spectrum

VRScout

A German-based company called Feelbelt wants to take that immersion even deeper with a wearable haptic belt capable of transmitting the entire frequency spectrum from 1 to 20,000 Hz in the form of haptic feedback. Worn like a traditional belt, feelbelt looks like something you might see in a sci-fi film. Image Credit: Feelbelt.

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

Road to VR

Instead, the company designed the glasses to help develop the “safeguards, policies and even social norms necessary to govern the use of AR glasses and other future wearable devices.” Announced in 2020, Aria doesn’t include AR displays of any type.

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