AR & VR

AI 2D To 3D Scene Generation

Researchers at Google released Zip-NeRF this week. A neural radiance field (NeRF) is a fully-connected neural network that can generate novel views of complex 3D scenes, based on a partial set of 2D images. Zip-NeRF incorporates complex anti-aliasing and faster training than previous NeFT system, with very impressive results.

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Monocle Pocket AR Device

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Monocle is an open source augmented reality (AR) device designed to be clipped onto glasses. It uses Bluetooth, a 720p camera, and a micro OLED display, and costs $349.

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Mixed Reality Development For Beginners

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Microsoft has launched a video tutorial series that introduces beginners to development in mixed reality, covering both XR (extended reality) and AR (augmented reality).

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Social Distancing AR App

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Google have launched a social distancing augmented reality app called Sodar, which allows you to see what a 2m distancing zone around you looks like.

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Deepfake Impressions

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Impressionist actor Jim Meskimen teamed up with deepfake video creator sham00k to create a deep fake video showing Jim performing impressions of famous actors while his face is changed to match those actors.

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3D Slam Mapping With Smartphones

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Augmented Reality startup 6D.AI have demonstrated the creation of a 3D scale map of an environment using regular smartphones. The demo shows the mapping of a 5000 square foot space taking 3 minutes with 4 smartphones (without depth sensors) scanning the area to create the SLAM AR map.

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OpenXR

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The Khronos group has released OpenXR, an open, royalty-free, cross-platform AR/VR/XR standard supported by major software and hardware companies ushc as Microsoft and Oculus.

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Hololens Hologram Language Transaltion

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Julia White from Microsoft Azure Marketing demonstrated the use of Hololens 2 to project a motion captured holograph of herself speaking in Japanese using her own speech patterns. The demonstration was created using Azure mixed reality to record the hologram, Azure text to speech and translate to create the spoken content and Azure neural text to speech technology to imprint her speech patterns in Japanese.

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Firefox Reality

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Mozilla have launched Firefox Reality, a web browser for VR. Users can use voice activation to search using the in experience browser window and can also jump into 3D content using the browser.

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AR Find In Text

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A new app called Find It in the Play Store allows you to search for text while point your phone at a body of text. The app uses Google's OCR library to read text from the camera and search it in real time.

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