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Apple is building a transformative platform for AR
Apple has shared some details concerning accessibility features it is working on, dropping some pretty big hints at how it sees augmented everyday reality. Will we see more on this at WWDC 2022, and how will it be applied? Making life accessible, making reality data Two of the upcoming accessibility enhancements seem to suggest Apple’s…
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What’s so great about Google’s ‘translation glasses’?
Google teased translation glasses at last week’s Google I/O developer conference, holding out the promise that you can one day talk with someone speaking in a foreign language, and see the English translation in your glasses. Company execs demonstrated the glasses in a video; it showed not only “closed captioning” — real-time text spelling out in the…
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How multiverse simulation can speed up innovation
Apparently, during the pandemic, I spent so much time-consuming digital content, I stopped reading print magazines. Last weekend I tried to catch up on reading my Popular Mechanics magazines — from 2021 — and one article blew my mind a bit. The story, “How the Air Force Secretly Designed and Flew a New Fighter in…
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Google acquires Raxium in augmented reality push
Google has acquired Raxium, a five-year-old Bay Area startup working on microLED display technologies for wearables and augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) headsets. “Raxium’s technical expertise in this area will play a key role as we continue to invest in our hardware efforts,” Rick Osterloh, senior vice president of devices and services at…
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It’s time to imagine the new workplace
Campus-like office buildings with grassy open-air spaces that melt into indoor spaces. Cubicle farms transformed into a motley mix of private work areas and collaborative spaces. Robotic agents that deliver packages to people’s desktops, so they don’t have to scrounge through everybody else’s stuff in the mailroom Those are just a few of the scenarios…