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For Google, the AI boom's arrival is perfectly timed for an AR revival. Internally, the company has been consolidating efforts to move faster, hoping to spark partnerships for a range of head-worn devices. At the same time, it faces an uphill battle in convincing customers, partners, and employees that it's prepared to make it work. Internally, Google teams are heavily focused on Android XR, a new software that Google hopes hardware partners will want to build devices on.
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What if a digital twin of Earth existed? What if a twin that is exactly like the real Earth could be recreated in virtual space? And what if changes in weather, disaster conditions, or urban activities could be updated in real time? Herein lie Associate Professor Yokoya’s goals and dreams.
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at Disney Quest VR in the 1990s, to being an early backer of the Oculus Rift DK1 on Kickstarter in 2013, to leading the Oculus VR/AR team at Meta from 2017 to 2020 (and getting to work alongside VR legends like John Carmack, Brendan Iribe and Jason Rubin), and always testing every VR product or experience I can get my hands on.
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Journalists keep asking me the same question these days: What’s the difference between Spatial Computing and Mixed Reality? As soon as I answer, it triggers even more questions about the language of immersive media and the various phrases in use today. To reduce confusion, I believe it’s helpful to review the history and perceptual meaning of core language.
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Why the term Metaverse took hold, specifically, is an unknowable question. “Cyberspace” seems to have been left behind — probably because it was too commonly used to skeuomorphically describe where online “things” “resided” in the 1990s — while the “Matrix” was likely impaired by the blockbuster success of the film of the same name. Maybe the “Grid” was too similar to other already-popular terms such as the “power grid.” Virtual reality never really went away, which is problem number one, but it was also too firmly associated with hardware, problem two, and those products were typically considered flops and “uncool.” Three strikes. VR-adjacent terms, such as AR, the newer MR, and newest XR, brought their own taxonomy problems and, in an inversion of VR’s problem, lacked products that would have given consumers an intuitive understanding of one versus another.
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At the moment, I would say that there are three types of apps you can make for Apple Vision Pro. These are windowed, bounded, and unbounded. Bounded and unbounded are Unity terminology. Technically there is no division. From Apple side there are windows or volumes which can spawn in Shared or Full Space, in Passthrough or Fully Immersive.
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The mixed reality headsets with video passthrough — which allow you to see through a goggles screen to the outside world — don’t have as severe a problem when it comes to motion sickness, according to a qualitative study by Stanford University‘s Jeremy Bailenson and ten other researchers. But it can still cause visual impacts and some simulator sickness.
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Sony Corporation announced development of an immersive spatial content creation system, which includes an XR head-mounted display equipped with high-quality 4K OLED Microdisplays*2 and video see-through function, and a pair of controllers optimized for intuitive interaction with 3D objects and precise pointing. The system is aimed at supporting creators in sophisticated 3D content creation.
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Sometimes, you need extra display space, but you don’t have space for an extra display. Folks who get work done while flying on a business trip or while traveling on public transit, for example, could use a second screen for multitasking, but typically don’t have the elbow room to juggle more than a laptop. Perhaps you’d like to spend more time in the family room, but someone else in your household always claims the big screen. Or maybe there are moments when you need to work privately, as when you’re reading through confidential business materials while working at a local coffee shop.
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Make your living room the talk of the town when you outfit it with the LG Signature OLED T transparent television. This see-through TV its truly a work of art.
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