Niantic to Launch City-scale Visual Positioning System for AR Devices Later This Month

Niantic says it plans to launch its Lightship Visual Positioning System at its developer summit later this month. The system aims to form an underlying 3D map of the world so that all devices can share the same frame of reference even on massive scales. Many AR devices today are capable of localizing themselves within […]

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Station Crew Gets Back to Work After Crew-3 Mission Ends

The Expedition 67 crew was back to normal on Friday following the departure of four commercial crew astronauts early Thursday morning. The seven International Space Station astronauts and cosmonauts will live and work in space together until late summer. The SpaceX Crew-3 mission ended at 12:43 a.m. EDT on Friday when the Dragon Endurance crew …

Crew-3 Astronauts Splashdown Ending Six-Month Mission

NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, and Tom Marshburn, as well as ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer splashed down safely in the SpaceX Dragon Endurance in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, at 12:43 a.m. EDT after 177 days in space. Teams on the Shannon recovery ship, including two …

Dragon Endurance Fires Engines to Return Crew-3 to Earth

The Dragon Endurance spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, and Tom Marshburn, as well as ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer on their return to Earth after a nearly six-month science mission has completed its deorbit burn as expected ahead of splashdown at about 12:43 p.m. EDT in the Gulf of Mexico off …

NASA TV is Live as Crew-3 Gets Ready for Earth Return

Watch the agency’s live coverage as NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, and Tom Marshburn, as well as ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer inside the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft are nearing the final stages of return before splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico at 12:43 a.m. EDT. Weather conditions remain within the …

Amazon AR View Enhances User Experiences

Last month, the world’s most popular eCommerce platform, Amazon, debuted an augmented reality (AR) powered feature for smartphones that enables shoppers to overlay virtual products in their real-world environment. Amazon AR View allows shoppers to place digital products in their homes, enabling an individual to assess if details like size or colour work in a […]

Epic Games Makes Digital Twins Efficient

Epic Games, the software development company behind Unreal Engine, announced its RealityScan solution on Monday, a smartphone application that transforms 2D photographs into 3D digital twins. Epic Games unveiled the application through its Capturing Reality subdivision, a firm it acquired in March last year that became its branch in Slovakia. In a statement, Capturing Reality […]

Daewoo, Ubitus open Prugio Real Estate Metagallery

Ubitus, a Tokyo, Japan-based company specialising in cloud gaming solutions, has struck a deal with Korea Telecom Corp (KT Corp) and national behemoth Daewoo to open the latter’s Prugio Metagallery. The new metaverse platform will provide real-time virtual tours of properties from the South Korean giant, allowing potential buyers to walk through virtual properties without […]

Portsmouth University Opens XR Centre

A cutting-edge centre for developing extended reality (XR) content has opened its doors at the University of Portsmouth on Wednesday. The Centre for Creative and Immersive Extended Reality (CCIXR) aims to build next-generation immersive experiences as the first facility in the United Kingdom to provide an entire suite of tools to back virtual, augmented, and […]

Video Content Strategy: From YouTube to Short-Form Social

Do you have longer videos that you publish on YouTube? Are you looking for a way to make a single video and repurpose it across multiple platforms? To learn a strategy that will simplify your video production and result in lots of content you can use everywhere, I interview Latasha James.

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