Tom Cruise foreshadowing our near future in Miniority Report, 2002
For anyone that has been following the VR/AR scene, you may have noticed that keeping up with the pace of news has become increasingly difficult in the recent months. Whether it’s new HMD announcements, AR software releases or mega rounds such as Improbable’s ~$500m Series B in May, exciting things are happening every single day.
Just in the past week:
* Amazon patented a new AR technique that pinpoints to their ambitions of rolling out AR-commerce features to users
* Estée Lauder and ModiFace released a chatbot that lets users try and buy lipsticks using AR
* HTC teased its first standalone VR headset powered by Snapdragon
* Google’s Daydream lab developed a VR simulation to train people in making coffee in hopes of eliminating dull training videos
* A new study was published by the AICFVE suggesting that VR can actually improve children’s eyesight (who would have thought?)
* USC’s Fertility Lab started using VR for sperm collection (say what?)
* And ARKit continued to garner a ton of attention from developers around the world
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Source: Haptic