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Apple-Facebook fight moves to metaverse
Facebook's pivot to the metaverse is also a move to check Apple in the tech industry's long-term game of "what's next." The big picture: Tech's leaders view their story as a series of shifts from one dominant platform to another. Each transition is a moment of peril to incumbents and opportunity for newcomers.
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Apple’s first mixed reality headset will run games with “top-tier graphics”
Also, an analyst says the headset will support Wi-Fi 6E.
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Facebook plans to hire 10,000 in EU to build 'metaverse'
Facebook Inc plans to create 10,000 jobs in the European Union over the next five years, the social media giant said on Monday, to help build the so-called metaverse - an online world where people can use different devices to move and communicate in a virtual environment.
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Astronauts Use Augmented Reality to Repair Space Station Equipment
As humanity ventures farther and farther away from Earth, space agencies will need to ensure that astronauts can operate autonomously, because any transmissions to and from mission control will face longer and longer delays.
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Report: Apple AR Headset With Rumored $2,000+ Price Tag to Enter Mass Production in Second Quarter of 2022
Apple's augmented reality headset will enter mass production in the second quarter of next year, with a launch expected between the third and fourth quarter of 2022, according to a translated report from the Taiwanese version of DigiTimes.
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Xiaomi shows off concept smart glasses with MicroLED display
Xiaomi has announced a pair of smart glasses called Xiaomi Smart Glasses. A company spokesperson tells The Verge that there’s no plan to actually put them on sale, but Xiaomi has provided enough detail to make the concept product seem somewhat plausible — at least for some point in the future.
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Why Businesses Are Investing in Augmented Reality
The global pandemic has changed the way we live, work and shop, accelerating both existingand emerging technological trends. As business and consumers adapt to the current landscape,we examine why augmented reality is the new normal.
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Apple's rumored AR/VR headset might require a nearby iPhone or a Mac for processing
Apple now seems to be up for a custom chip for it’s rumored upcoming AR/VR headset. This chip is an SoC, this will require Apple to offload a few processor-heavy tasks to the device it’s connected to (like an iPhone or Mac). However, this chip sends and receives data, compresses or decompressed videos as per needs though being wireless. Thus, it’s gonna do a great job in streaming data, rather than putting the whole load of heavy processing on the headset. Apple has started working with this wit
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Apple Glasses: Release date, price, features and leaks
Apple Glass could redefine wearable computing. Here's everything we know so far.
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Augmented Reality Is Coming for Your Ears, Too
SHARING YOUR EARBUDS with somebody is, in every important aspect, gross. There must be a compelling reason to want to wedge another person’s waxy nub into your external auditory meatus. Such as love, or an unbearably long flight with no other options (the two are not mutually exclusive). Or a shared experience that demands, in some way, that two or more people hear the same audio tracks simultaneously.
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Augmented Reality Is Changing the Cosmetics Industry Forever
A flurry of prominent cosmetics brands are embracing augmented reality technology to show you what makeup looks like before you buy. Trying on lipstick before you bought it once meant dealing with an apathetic store assistant and the dubious hygiene of putting your lips on the same surface as countless fellow shoppers.
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Adobe creates augmented reality for Apple
With this, Apple users will be able to see everything more incredible, from work things and for the children of the house in video games.
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'Apple Glass' details leaked, will cost $499 and work with prescriptions
A prolific leaker has detailed Apple's forthcoming augmented reality glasses, and says that Apple will call them "Apple Glass"
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'Apple Glass' Rumored to Start at $499, Support Prescription Lenses, and More
Front Page Tech host and leaker Jon Prosser today shared several alleged details about Apple's rumored augmented reality glasses
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No, Apple hasn't canceled its AR glasses project
Production of Apple's upcoming augmented reality has supposedly been "terminated" according to one of the worst sources of Apple rumors on the internet.
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Magic Leap is real and it’s a janky marvel
After years of speculation, some mockery, and more than a little befuddlement, the Magic Leap augmented headset is arriving in the hands of developers and users — and its first product is a somewhat janky piece of magic.
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4 obstacles to ethical AI (and how to address them)
Data bias, opacity, data monopoly, and job loss are issues that plague the field of artificial intelligence. Here are some simple solutions to these problems.
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Kill the (robot) ump!
Let's assume someone seriously wants to create a robot umpire or sports referee. Is it possible to build an accurate and trustworthy augmented reality solution today? Or must we wait for the technology to catch up?
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CGI ‘Influencers’ Like Lil Miquela Are About to Flood Your Feeds
Lil Miquela may be fascinating in her own right, but the rise of digital humans in social media and elsewhere is just getting started.
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Jurassic World gets the Pokemon GO clone nobody needs
Universal Studios today announced Jurassic World Alive, an AR mobile game made in the style of Pokemon GO. When I say “in the style of Pokemon GO,” I mean identical to that game. The player uses their phone as a map to track dinosaurs by sound, capture them, and use them in battle against other players.
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