Snapchat parent company Snap believes that augmented reality (AR) will be “one of the most meaningful advancements in computing that the world has ever seen.” Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap, said this Thursday (April 25) during the company’s quarterly earnings call. He said that Snap considers AR to be one of the company’s three strategic priorities, alongside revenue …
Apple Vision Pro, remember that? Apple is reportedly struggling to sell its existing stock of the headset and is cutting production because of low demand. Worse still, Mark Gurman reports for Bloomberg that interest in free demonstrations of the device has flatlined in Apple stores with people booking appointments and not showing up. And Gurman …
Image Credits: Trace When Trace’s future co-founders Greg Tran, Martin Smith and Sean Couture joined Magic Leap in Spring/Summer 2015, it was about as hot as startups come. After years of secrecy, the augmented reality company captured Silicon Valley’s imagination with in-device footage, before capping the year with an $827 million raise. The story of …
23 April 2024 Meta has announced that it’s opening up the Horizon OS powering its Oculus headsets to third parties. The first companies to use Horizon OS in new headsets will be Asus and Lenovo. The Asus headset will be ROG branded and will be aimed at gamers, while Lenovo will “develop mixed reality devices …
For the last 44 years, the IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits has delivered a unique convergence of technology and circuits for the microelectronics industry, with maximum synergy between both domains. The 2024 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits is organized around the theme: “Bridging the Digital & Physical Worlds with Efficiency & Intelligence.” The five-day …
This has become a pattern: One minute he’s not wearing the headset, and the next he is. The transition would always happen unexpectedly—when I’d leave the room to jump in the shower, do my makeup in the bathroom, or get ready to go out. One time, after I finished brushing my teeth before bed, I …
TL;DR Meta has introduced a new way to digitally map a room, called SceneScript. SceneScript is able to automatically identify objects and room features like walls, couches, and tables with the help of AI. The resulting data can be used by LLMs to answer questions about the room. Meta has debuted a new method for …
March 21, 2024 08:30 am | Updated 11:27 am IST Apple went into overkill mode when it asked app developers, building applications for its Vision Pro, to call their apps ‘spatial computing apps’. ‘The Sword of Damocles’ by Ivan Sutherland. | Photo Credit: Picture courtesy Georgi Kostov via researchgate.net When Apple unveiled its Vision Pro …
Worse is when the doorbell goes off while you’re in the Vision Pro and you have to suddenly take it off to run downstairs and answer the door. Contrary to what Apple might want, I find it odd to just keep wearing the headset as I move through my home. Just the other day I …
Vision Pro and Sony PSVR2 (left to right) Anshel Sag Since Apple’s announcement of the Vision Pro headset, many companies have begun to circle their wagons for spatial computing so they can address the market in one way or another. While the alliances are still being established, we are already starting to see some concrete …