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Titanium Wireless is always staying on top of the latest in mobility technology. Check out this insightful article from Yahoo Tech highlighting the 7 Biggest Features of IOS 18 we can expect to see in the near future. From AI advancements to revolutionary breakthroughs in VR, the smartphone landscape is evolving at an incredible pace! 🔍 Dive in and discover what's on the horizon: https://lnkd.in/eqey9zx8 Which of these features are you most excited about? Share your thoughts in the comments below! #titaniumwireless #disruptingthetelecomindustry #TechTrends #FutureTech #Innovation #AI #VR #YahooTech

🍏 Apple reduces projected shipment of Vision Pro units for 2024 from 800,000 to 400-450,000 due to disappointing demand. 🔍 Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo notes demand falling sharply below expectations as the VR headset expands globally. 🌍 Vision Pro may not see a new model in 2025; Apple anticipates a decline in shipments next year. 💡 Doubts arise over the future of Apple's spatial vision amid concerns over comfort, use cases, and pricing. 📱 Only one app utilizing eye-tracking features launched for Vision Pro in the final week of March, raising concerns about the app ecosystem. #AR #VR #aecbusiness https://lnkd.in/d9UgeTpW

Every World In Meta Horizon Worlds Can Now Be Joined On Web & Mobile All worlds in Meta's Horizon Worlds "metaverse" platform now work in web browsers and on smartphones, instead of just a few.... https://lnkd.in/eKz6Etux #AR #VR #Metaverse

📱 Android XR may be announced at Google I/O 2024. 🌐 Google AR/VR states on website X that there will be "AR announcements" at Google I/O 2024: 📅 "Mark your calendars. 🗓️ Join us at #GoogleIO on May 14th to learn about the latest developer products and #AR announcements! Register today: http://io.google/2024/" 🎮 If Google and Samsung indeed launch a mixed reality headset by late 2024 or early 2025, Google I/O would be the perfect platform to unveil the spatial operating system Android XR and attract developers. 🔍 However, there's no guarantee that the AR announcements will not merely be new iterations of ARKit or new AR features for Google Maps, Google Lens, or another Google app. #TechNews #GoogleAR #AndroidXR #MixedReality

Head Candy galore. The specs are shaping up outshine the #applevisionpro at a $1500 saving at a mear $2000. These are all crazy prices to the majority of global consumers. Who knows whether the early 2025 launch date will happen but #meta have been good at hitting deadlines in this space. The other competitor launches from #sony and #samsung are also mentioned with their pending releases around the same time. Personally I think the $200 device by #meta aimed for this summer will drive global adoption and app store sales for #devs. What headsets driving your imagination?

“1) Feeling present and connected to your physical world: thanks to a high-fidelity passthrough (“mixed reality”) experience with very low latency, excellent distortion correction (much better than Quest 3), and sufficiently high resolution that allows you to even see your phone/computer screen through the passthrough cameras (i.e. without taking your headset off). Even though there are major gaps left to be filled in future versions of the Vision Pro hardware (which I’ll get into later), this level of connection with the real world — or “presence” as VR folks like to call it — is something that no other VR headset has ever come even close to delivering and so far was only remotely possible with AR headsets (ex: HoloLens and Magic Leap) which feature physically transparent displays but have their own significant limitations in many other areas. Apple’s implementation of Optic ID as an overlay on top of live passthrough is a beautiful design decision that only enhances this sense of presence. MY TAKE: The Vision Pro high-fidelity passthrough experience parallels Apple’s introduction of the iPhone’s original retina display, which set a new experience bar and gold standard in mobile display fidelity. While much remains to be improved in the Vision Pro passthrough experience, Apple is unquestionably setting a new standard for all future headsets (by any vendor) that VR passthrough must be good enough to closely resemble reality.”

Check out the article below about the Apple Vision Pro by former Oculus head at Meta Hugo Barra. ⬇ It's very comprehensive for those who like detail, or if you're in a hurry there are highlighted parts to get the summaries. Some of it we have discussed before, but other parts going into more in depth. He also compares to the current Oculus devices out there. I have seen the article reviewed as Vision Pro bashing, but I found it to be quite balanced. Judge for yourself... ➡ https://lnkd.in/dUxujwzN #visionpro #virtualreality #spatialcomputing #meta #oculusquest

Talk about the Android moment in the Mixed Reality World! 🤯 While the term "iPhone moment" in technology has been overused, here's an event that has the potential to spark a Mixed Reality revolution like Android did for smartphones! With AI at Meta announcing the release of Llama3 and setting off another chain of innovations, Meta has now opened up the Meta Horizon OS to the world! 🌎 With Quest devices serving as a powerful example of the capabilities of the Horizon OS, we believe this move will not only empower third-party hardware makers to focus on building compelling systems but also provide consumers with a plethora of products to choose from. By sharing technologies such as inside-out tracking, hand/eye/face/body tracking, high-resolution Passthrough, Scene Understanding, and more, we are releasing a decade-worth of research and making it available for developers and creators to take advantage of, ultimately delivering never-before-experienced immersive content to their audiences! 💥 And what's even more exciting is that we already have a few partners who are building on top of the Horizon OS – ASUS, Lenovo, and Xbox! 🤝 Really excited to see the slew of innovations this enables in the AR/VR space! 🔮 To read more about Horizon OS and Llama3, check the comments below! 👇 🥽 #meta #HorizonOS #MR #VR #Partnership #Android #iPhone

To try it out, go to Settings > Experimental and toggle Use Apps While Lying Down. This should be a nice feature for when you just want to get prone and watch a movie — something the much more expensive Apple Vision Pro could do at launch. But it’s also a boon for those who have health problems and aren’t able to stay upright for long periods of time while using their Quest device. The feature was in the v53 software beta last year but was removed before the update rolled out. In addition to letting users lay prone while they’re jacked in, Meta says it has improved passthrough for the Quest 3. The company says it optimized its passthrough video to make “perceived resolution” better — basically, fine-grained text like that on a smartphone should be more legible. The company says it’s also improved color, exposure, contrast, and dynamic range, so what you see will match real-world colors better, and it says low-light passthrough is less grainy with the update. The Quest 3 also now supports external microphones through the headset’s USB-C port and should support non-USB-C mics with adapters. To use it, users will need to switch by going to Settings > Experimental and choosing the microphone there. Finally, for all headsets, Meta’s update will now let streamers using the Meta Quest app keep their streams going when they take their headset off, rather than the screen going black. The company also says it’s testing a feature in Horizon Worlds that will let users join friends who are sharing their location and in a public world directly from the People app in the universal menu. Again, the update only started rolling out yesterday — so if you don’t have it quite yet, hold your virtual horses because it’s on its way. Source link By Nakisisa George

𝐈𝐬 𝐗𝐑 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐖𝐚𝐫? 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚 𝐯𝐬. 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞: 𝐀 𝐃é𝐣à 𝐕𝐮 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬? The recent launches in XR operating systems & headsets - being a product guy in Spatial [3D] product now at Avataar remind me of the early days of smartphones that I witnessed as a mobile developer. In my latest blog post, I explore the parallels between the rise of iOS and Android and the potential XR war brewing between Meta and Apple. Let's dive in !