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.
Topic
augmented reality
A collection of 21 issues
For Many, Driving a Car Will Be Their First Visit to the Metaverse
Driving a car may be the first introduction to the Metaverse for a lot of people. The combination of technologies being poured into self-driving cars, and their role as a moving media platform puts driving ahead of other contenders.
Augmentation, the Metaverse and the Magic Circle
We are in a time of profound change. And one of those shifts is in the digitization of everything. Augmented/virtual/synthetic realities are markers in a much larger shift: the digitization of the entire human experience.
Apple Is In No Rush To Change The World
Apple will reinvent itself. But will it happen in a single "big bang" moment at WWDC, with new devices and a new vision for how computing works? Not so fast.
Scan Everything: Building the Infrastructure for Augmented Reality
Everything is being scanned. From avocados to Amsterdam, from your living room to the local park, it has become easier than ever to take 3D snapshots of physical things.
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
Unplug: Getting Away from Augmented Reality
The engine sputtered to a stop in the middle of the St. Lawrence River. The
current here was fast and the river was wide and there were no obvious places to
shelter while we fixed it.
My heart sank. It happened after a nearly catastrophic two weeks involving an
underwater
XR and the Metaverse: Privacy By Design
Innovative XR designs for privacy can be embedded in the glasses themselves. How these issues play out will give the Multiverse/Metaverse different "flavours" depending whose device you own.