Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Augmented Reality
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AI is enabling some really magical experiences. 🪄 Originally planned to share this tomorrow, @sergeyglkn scooped us! 😜 Keep on eye on this space. It moves fast! 💨 pic.twitter.com/Of8PgJWZMM — Russ Maschmeyer (@StrangeNative) September 19, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js This is a fun and impressive demo: Online e-commerce site Shopify prototyping AI image generation used in fashion.…
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Hi! I’m Heather. I’ve been an interactive designer/illustrator/animator/developer (flash, web, app, & mobile games) for 15 yrs. Now, I’m using those game dev lessons in AR/VR: creating immersive art experiences that blur the line between art & audience. #WhatAGameDevLooksLike pic.twitter.com/NHyXiGvSdd — Heather Dunaway Smith 🇺🇦 (@dunaway_smith) March 24, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js XR game developer Heather Dunaway…
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Just posted my 2022 predictions just last week, and this news already dropped this week: Apple was reportedly planning to put the headset on sale sometime after the [June 2022] WWDC announcement. Now, however, Apple is said to be exploring the possibility of delaying the announcement by at least a few months, or potentially pushing it…
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Last month I estimated that Upland, the blockchain-backed mirror world real estate trading MMO, probably had about low-to-mid six figures of active users; now here's a pretty good data point of users who actually play Upland long enough to buy virtual real estate in it. A very active Upland user sent me the data above, …
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With all the hype around THE METAVERSE lately, this was bound to happen — though I'm somewhat surprised it's coming from the CEO of AR-based virtual world creator Niantic: A lot of people these days seem very interested in bringing this near-future vision of a virtual world to life, including some of the biggest names…
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Apple has posted over 40 job AR/VR openings since last August, which more than any recent rumor swirling about, convinces me that Apple is moving into the AR/VR space. But! 40 or so employees is actually not that much amid a company with nearly 150,000 total staff. (And translates to Apple paying these new hires…
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In case you missed it last week, AR startup Tilt 5 raised $7.5 million in venture funding, a hopeful sign amid a rather bearish market for AR/VR startups. I've been following the underlying technology for Tilt 5's headset since it was spun out of Valve under the name Cast AR seven years ago. Founded by CEO…
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Caveat emptor and all that, but the iPad LIDAR Scanner just published in Beta seems seriously impressive, able to "capture" real world objects and convert them into imperfect but pretty usable 3D models. It works, says developer Laan Labs, by automatically extracting objects via machine learning (i.e. extrapolating data for unseen surfaces). More info from…
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Bloomberg News has a great long feature on the rise and fall of Magic Leap, which raised $3.5 billion on the prospect of transformative AR technology, only to lose nearly all of that money in the fires of hubris. The company is still operating, but mainly now as an also-ran competitor to Microsoft's HoloLens/AR for…
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Half-life Alyx running on #ProjectNorthstar, Lots of improvements to do with the steamVR driver itself, but it's so cool seeing it progress this far. pic.twitter.com/BP9QtFxLSq — Bryan Chris Brown 🚀 (@BryanChrisBrown) September 12, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js One moment you're in your apartment, and then the next, boom, your reality gets merged with City 17. This clever…
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