Tag: Augmented Reality

Chinese AR Glasses Maker Raises $60 Million to Compete With Apple, Meta and Google
30Jan By adminNo Comments
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Chinese AR Glasses Maker Raises $60 Million to Compete With Apple, Meta and Google

[ad_1] Augmented reality glasses maker Xreal is raising fresh funding at a valuation that tops $1 billion, according to Chief Executive Officer Chi Xu, aiming to get out ahead of future devices from Apple Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google.The Chinese startup is raising $60 million in the round, bringing its total to more than $300 million, Chi said in an interview. That latest money comes from a key supply chain partner that he declined to identify. “This will help us scale our manufacturing capabilities and research and development,” he said, adding that the company has enough capacity to meet demand for its glasses this year but needs the money to fulfill orders in 2025. We are on WhatsApp Channels. Click to join. Xreal is looking to blaze a trail in augmented reali...
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Apple Vision Pro Future Growth Areas: Surgery, Aircraft Repair, Teaching
22Jan By adminNo Comments
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Apple Vision Pro Future Growth Areas: Surgery, Aircraft Repair, Teaching

[ad_1] Apple Inc., which is poised to launch its Vision Pro mixed-reality headset on Feb. 2, is already envisioning future workplace applications for the device, including using it for surgery, aircraft repair and teaching students. In a video sent to employees this week, Apple executives Mike Rockwell and Alan Dye discussed the product's development, as well as potential growth areas for the still-nascent technology. Bloomberg News obtained a transcript of the conversation, which came just before Apple began accepting preorders for the Vision Pro on Friday. When asked about some “cool” ways that people could use the $3,499 Vision Pro, Rockwell cited health care, training and education as key areas. “Oftentimes, surgeons struggle to look at displays during procedures, where information ...
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Vistara plans to use virtual reality, augmented reality tech for training purposes
9Jan By adminNo Comments
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Vistara plans to use virtual reality, augmented reality tech for training purposes

[ad_1] Vistara plans to use virtual reality and augmented reality technologies for certain training activities for the staff, the airline's chief Vinod Kannan said on Monday and emphasised that there is always going to be a place for human intelligence as certain situations cannot be handled by bots.The full service carrier, which will complete nine years of flying on January 9, is already using chatbots to address customer queries. To a query about the use of artificial intelligence by the airline, its CEO Vinod Kannan said there are certain things that have already been done. "We have a chatbot. We are trying to improve how we do some of our training. We are also looking at virtual reality, augmented reality. Some pilots (projects) we are doing on that front to see whether they can re...
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Qualcomm Unveils Chip for Mixed Reality to Compete With Apple’s Vision Pro
5Jan By adminNo Comments
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Qualcomm Unveils Chip for Mixed Reality to Compete With Apple’s Vision Pro

[ad_1] Qualcomm Inc., the biggest maker of mobile phone processors, announced the Snapdragon XR2 chip designed for virtual and mixed reality headsets that will compete with Apple Inc.'s forthcoming Vision Pro.The San Diego-based chipmaker said the new component, which can run 12 or more high-definition cameras, will be used by Samsung Electronics Co. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google on products under development.  The market for devices that project information onto the user's view of the physical world was fired up last year by Apple's announcement that it would sell a mixed-reality headset. Qualcomm's chips have been at the heart of many of other companies' attempts to lure consumers to the category, which hasn't yet taken off.  We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join.Augmented reality impose...
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High-tech helmet holds promise for deaf American football players
5Nov By adminNo Comments
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High-tech helmet holds promise for deaf American football players

[ad_1] Coach Chuck Goldstein often finds himself jumping up and down on the sidelines of the field -- trying, in vain, to get his players' attention. That's because all but one of the players on the Gallaudet University American football team, in Washington, are all deaf or hard of hearing. "If our player is not looking at us, they're not gonna know what we're telling them," Goldstein tells AFP.That's what makes the helmet Goldstein is holding in his hands so revolutionary: it is equipped with an augmented-reality eyepiece that can display play calls to the team on the field. "We communicate fast, just like any other team in the country, but the difference is our players, they don't hear whistles," sometimes leading to penalties, Goldstein says. "It's never ever a level playing field."B...
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse faces over $20 billion setback
30Oct By adminNo Comments
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse faces over $20 billion setback

[ad_1] In a virtual interview, Mark Zuckerberg wowed audiences with the latest developments in hyper-realistic 3D avatars set against the backdrop of the Metaverse. However, the grandeur of these advancements does little to overshadow Meta's staggering loss of $3.74 billion in its Reality Labs division during the third quarter of this year. As the company grapples with these financial setbacks, Zuckerberg's response has been to trim down the workforce within the research units responsible for virtual and augmented reality hardware and software.Meta has been at the forefront of developing tools for virtual reality, including the Meta Quest headset and Spark AR Studio, a Facebook-backed toolkit for augmented reality projects. They have also delved into the realms of artificial intelligenc...
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Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3: The mixed reality race between two tech titans
9Oct By adminNo Comments
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Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3: The mixed reality race between two tech titans

[ad_1] Apple and Meta are two of the world's biggest tech companies, and both of them have dipped their toes into a new technology recently - mixed reality. While Meta Platforms is no stranger to mixed reality, courtesy of its Metaverse and Meta Quest lineup, it has eluded Apple so far, but not anymore. At the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2023 on June 5, Apple took the wraps off its first-ever mixed reality headset, the Apple Vision Pro. Although both of these headsets aim to improve mixed reality, they target different demographics. Apple Vision ProDeveloped by Apple's unit called Vision Products Group (VPG) led by Mike Rockwell, the Vision Pro is a spatial computer that allows users to experience apps and features in an augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) enviro...
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An app shows how ancient Greek sites looked thousands of years ago. It’s a glimpse of future tech
8Oct By adminNo Comments
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An app shows how ancient Greek sites looked thousands of years ago. It’s a glimpse of future tech

[ad_1] Tourists at the Acropolis this holiday season can witness the resolution of one of the world's most heated debates on cultural heritage.All they need is a smartphone. Visitors can now pinch and zoom their way around the ancient Greek site, with a digital overlay showing how it once looked. That includes a collection of marble sculptures removed from the Parthenon more than 200 years ago that are now on display at the British Museum in London. Greece has demanded they be returned. For now, an app supported by Greece's Culture Ministry allows visitors to point their phones at the Parthenon temple, and the sculptures housed in London appear back on the monument as archaeologists believe they looked 2,500 years ago.We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join.Other, less widely known featur...
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Snap to Shutter Business-Focused AR Unit That Just Launched This Year
27Sep By adminNo Comments
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Snap to Shutter Business-Focused AR Unit That Just Launched This Year

[ad_1] Snap Inc. is closing a division focused on making augmented reality services for businesses, pulling the plug on its latest attempt to diversify the ad-dependent company.The ARES unit, short for augmented reality for enterprise services, was just announced in March. The idea was to let retailers adapt Snap's AR technology for their own websites. But the company ultimately realized that the cost and complexity of the endeavor was too great, according to a memo from Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel that was reviewed by Bloomberg and confirmed by a Snap spokesperson. ARES was one of Snap's biggest new undertakings since the social media company was restructured last year, and its quick demise shows the challenges of adapting to a world roiled by the artificial intelligence boom....
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Meta Connect 2023: When, where to watch this virtual conference online
22Sep By adminNo Comments
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Meta Connect 2023: When, where to watch this virtual conference online

[ad_1] Meta Connect 2023: It is the time of the year when all the big tech companies are holding their events, showcasing their advances in software, hardware, and artificial intelligence (AI). Microsoft held its Surface Event yesterday where it introduced two new products - Surface Laptop Studio 2, and Laptop Go 3, along with new additions to Bing, Windows, and Copilot rollout. Now, it is Meta's turn to showcase its products, and it will do so at the Meta Connect 2023. So, if you wish to know about the latest tech that Meta has on offer, know when, and where to watch Meta Connect 2023 online.About Meta Connect 2023Meta has announced that the Connect event is back and it will be held on two days this month. It will be a virtual event held at the Meta Headquarters in Menlo, California. A...
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