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Varjo Launches Metaverse Teleportation - In Reality

Varjo is launching Reality Cloud, and with it a new type of interaction for the Metaverse: the ability to teleport to another physical world location, which is scanned and distributed in real-time.

Apple Launches An AR Cloud (Selectively)

Apple has launched an AR Cloud to allow precise location-based augmented reality experiences. But there’s a caveat: it’s only available in 5 US cities (Miami, LA, San Francisco, Chicago and New York). But at least Apple has put a stake in the ground: they are now officially an

Snapchat Is The World's Leading Augmented Reality Company

For this week at least, Snapchat is the world’s leading augmented reality (AR) company. They’ve taken top position because they’ve tackled the four pillars of AR. The Snapchat Partner Summit was a rocket ship. It catapulted them from being an ‘app company’ to a full-blown AR platform.

Augmented Reality Turning Point

The summer of 2020 will be remembered for a lot of things. Augmented reality probably won’t be one of them. And yet if this was any other time, the hype machine would be clicking into high gear and we’d be hearing about waves of VC investments and reading

Standards for Augmented Reality and the Spatial Cloud: A Long Wait?

Matt Miesnieks, former co-founder and CEO of 6D.ai, thinks it will take time for the spatial computing industry to adopt the standards being pursued by the Open AR Cloud Association and the more open ecosystem providers like Google.. “We used to joke that standards are for the losers,” said

Augmented Reality and a Creative Commons for Physical Objects

The Augmented Reality Cloud is creating a ‘digital twin’ of the physical world. Physical places are being scanned, anchors are being set, the relationship between objects are being mapped. But should physical objects and spaces have “rights”? When you can easily overlay digital content on a physical object, does the

Unreal Support for Azure Spatial Anchors

Unreal recently announced [https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/unreal-engine-4-25-released] support for Azure Spatial Anchors [https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/spatial-anchors/] with the release of Version 4.25. At first glance, the announcement might seem like it most neatly ties into their additional support for Microsoft’s Hololens. But

Matterport: Visualizing the Augmented Reality Cloud

Matterport lets you scan a 3D space, annotate it and share it with friends. They recently launched [https://matterport.com/blog/future-space-palm-your-hand] support for iPhones and you can download the app and give it a spin. If nothing else it’s a chance to visualize part of the augmented reality

What Is The AR Cloud

The AR Cloud will unleash new capabilities by creating a 1:1 map of the physical world. It promises to help turn the physical world into a digital interface and operating system. It’s perhaps the last frontier between here and ubiquitous computing: information systems present in everything around us.