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Meta Shows Off Wrist-worn XR Controller Prototype to Ray-Ban Parent EssilorLuxottica

3 years ago
InternetNews
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off a prototype of the company’s wrist-worn XR controller this week to EssilorLuxottica, the Italian parent company behind the Ray-Ban Stories camera glasses and a host of other conventional luxury eyewear brands. Although outwardly it appears to be similar to what the company revealed last year, it’s a definitely vote […]

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NVIDIA Researchers Demonstrate Ultra-thin Holographic VR Glasses That Could Reach 120° Field-of-view

3 years ago
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A team of researchers from NVIDIA Research and Stanford published a new paper demonstrating a pair of thin holographic VR glasses. The displays can show true holographic content, solving for the vergence-accommodation issue. Though the research prototypes demonstrating the principles were much smaller in field-of-view, the researchers claim it would be straightforward to achieve a […]

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

3 years ago
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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

3 years ago
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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 …
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Crew-3 Astronauts Splashdown Ending Six-Month Mission

3 years ago
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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 …
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Dragon Endurance Fires Engines to Return Crew-3 to Earth

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

3 years ago
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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 …
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Amazon AR View Enhances User Experiences

3 years ago
InternetNews
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 […]
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Epic Games Makes Digital Twins Efficient

3 years ago
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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 […]
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Daewoo, Ubitus open Prugio Real Estate Metagallery

3 years ago
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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 […]