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Magic Leap finally unveils augmented reality goggles, says it’s shipping next year
After more than three years, Magic Leap has unveiled what it describes as a "creator edition" of its augmented reality system.
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Ideology Is the Original Augmented Reality
How we fill gaps in our everyday experiences. By Slavoj ŽIžek.
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Future of the human-computer interface
The human-computer interface is changing: Welcome to a world of holograms, augmented reality, and thought-controlled Word docs.
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Apple Glasses Are Inevitable
All of the pieces are coming together for Apple to sell glasses. Using fashion and luxury lessons learned from selling Apple Watch, Apple will enter the glasses industry and in the process launch its first product category designed specifically for the augmented reality (AR) era. While ARKit has taken the world by storm, the development platform is already making it clear that new form factors are needed to take full advantage of AR. It is no longer a question of if, but when, Apple will use AR to rethink glasses.
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Google Glass 2.0 Is a Startling Second Act
The trendy-creepy glasses flopped. Then the tech giant realized that the future of wearables was in factories and warehouses.
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How To Make Consumers Understand VR/AR
In today’s world of hyper-connectivity we increasingly stare at the rectangles in our hands, on our desks, and mounted on our walls, allowing them to take us from A to B within their confined environments. But immersion ends when we stop looking at our rectangles. If today’s computing platforms get you from A to B faster than ever before, tomorrow’s will power the first implementation of imagination. The technology of tomorrow is Immersive and therefore the medium should be called Immersive.
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Heads up: Augmented reality prepares for the battlefield
At last week's Pentagon Lab Day in Washington, DC, the Army's Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) and Army Research Lab demonstrated a prototype of technology straight out of first-person shooter games—an "augmented reality" heads-up display that could help soldiers tap into sensors and other data.
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15 Augmented Reality Trends We're Predicting for 2017
As we wrap up 2016, we look back on a year of uncertainty. The question of AR versus VR remained a topic among investors and innovators alike. The challenge of mainstream adoption of either platform seemed unresolved. And, to be honest, it seemed that we just didn’t know to do with immersive technologies. What 2016 did give us, with certainty, is a much clearer perspective on the augmented reality trends that will drive both investment and innovation in 2017.
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Is Pokémon Go racist? How the app may be redlining communities of color
PokéStops in communities of color suggest unconscious digital redlining within the game.
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Pokémon Go players urged not to venture into Fukushima disaster zone
Japan is asking for the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone to be classified as a no-go area for Pokémon after the discovery of at least one of the game’s characters on a power station’s site. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) has requested that Pokémon Go developer Niantic and the Pokémon Company prevent Pokémon appearing in and around areas affected by the nuclear reactor meltdown in Fukushima to help prevent encouraging players to enter dangerous areas.
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Brand Killer: Augmented reality goggles create real-world AdBlock
Brand Killer blocks ads in real time from wearer's point of view using DIY augmented reality headset.
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Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality are the 4th Wave of Digital Technology
Consumer computing platform changes aren’t straight lines, they’re waves. PC, internet and mobile were the first 3 waves, and each was faster, larger and more disruptive than the last. Now the fourth wave of virtual, augmented and mixed reality is bearing down on us, so let’s dive in. The water’s fine.
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Hololens spatial mapping outdoors
How hololens recognizes the enviroments you are in, going from outdoors to indoors. Doesn't work well with black or silver objects, great with all others.
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Magic Leap Shows Off Latest Augmented Reality Video
On Tuesday, augmented reality trailblazer Magic Leap released a new video demo of its very secretive product. If you can bring yourself to believe it — and to believe the fine print — the video is sure to blow your socks off. The fine print: “Shot directly through Magic Leap technology on April 8, 2016. No special effects or compositing were used in the creation of this video (except for this text).” Assuming, against all reason, that that’s true, you’ll soon be getting accustomed...
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The reality of AR/VR business models
There is nearly as much confusion as there is excitement about augmented and virtual reality. While VR could be big and AR could be bigger (and take longer), there are more questions than answers out there. I’ll be doing a deep dive on one aspect of AR/VR every month. This month we’re kicking off with business models. AR/VR hardware sales, e-commerce sales, ad spend and mobile data/voice could drive more than 80 percent of all AR/VR revenues.
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Hands-on with HoloLens: On the cusp of a revolution
It's an amazing device, and now it needs amazing software to go with it. Since it was first revealed in Redmond at the start of last year, I've used HoloLens a couple more times. I did a development session that walked through developing a simple app for the headset using Unity, and I've also seen Microsoft's touring HoloLens experience that it was offering developers last year. Each time I've been subject to tight controls...
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'Holoportation' mixes teleportation, augmented reality
Researchers at Microsoft are showing off what they are calling "holoportation," virtual teleportation with real-time interaction with 3D models.
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Mark Zuckerberg Says It Will Take 10 Years for Virtual Reality to Reach Mass Market
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been stoking excitement about virtual reality—a technology he has described as “the next major computing and communication platform”—for a few years now. But in a new interview posted at Business Insider, he says the technology remains a long way from reaching the mass market. “I honestly don’t know how long it will take,” he said. “It could be five years, it could be 10 years...
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Meta Hypes The Reveal Of Its ‘Futuristic’ Next-Gen Augmented Reality Glasses
Meta, an augmented reality glasses company born around the same time as Google Glass, is getting ready to show off the next-gen version of their AR headset. The company published a video to YouTube on Wednesday which features a handful of tech influencers lauding their “futuristic” experiences with demos of the yet-to-be-publicly-revealed device. The video undoubtedly seeks to build on the excitement that AR-buffs got last week...
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Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot
One night in late July 2014, a journalist from the Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly interviewed a 17-year-old Chinese girl named Xiaoice (pronounced Shao-ice). The journalist, Liu Jun, conducted the interview online, through the popular social networking platform Weibo. It was wide-ranging and personal...
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