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Go back inside Seattle’s Living Computers, virtually, via 3D tour updated with links to auction items

GeekWire

A view inside Paolo Tosolini’s virtual tour of the former Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle shows a minicomputer and a link (center) to the Christie’s auction for that artifact. Tosolini hoped to do another refresh in 2019 or 2020, but by the time the pandemic hit, Living Computers was closed, and it would never reopen.

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Zillow Surfing 2.0: Real estate giant uses AI to beef up virtual touring tool

GeekWire

Zillow Group on Wednesday rolled out a new feature for its virtual tour experience that uses machine learning to pull together various media content with an interactive floor plan. Virtual tours have been key for real estate sites such as Zillow and Redfin during the pandemic. Zillow Surfing just got an upgrade.

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Snap buys another company to make AR shopping a reality

The Verge

Snap and Gucci recently partnered to let users virtually try on a limited edition pair of shoes. The parent company of Snapchat has bought Vertebrae, a company that lets brands create and manage 3D versions of their goods. It also worked with Facebook — Snap’s biggest competitor — on AR shopping tech in 2019.

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5 Reasons to Use Augmented Reality in Education

Kitaboo

The technology is making it possible to add a layer of enhanced reality to a context-sensitive virtual world. Top 5 Reasons to use Augmented Reality in Education - Stimulates the imagination Augmented Reality enables students and teachers to visualize 3D models in a simulated environment , in real-time and at scale.

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How Can Digital Publishers Support Independent Learning?

Kitaboo

Video content: Digital publishers can also package their educational content in the form of videos using multimedia-rich 2D and 3D content, encouraging them to revisit them till they gain mastery over the subject. With an AR-enabled app, publishers can help make the lesson come alive with 3D models or links to pages with more information. .

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Facebook can project your eyes onto a VR headset, and it’s exactly as uncanny as it sounds

The Verge

Facebook Reality Labs wants to help people see your eyes while you’re in virtual reality — even if the results sit somewhere between mildly unsettling and nightmarish. It’s useful for quickly dropping out of VR, and it can also enable a form of augmented reality by adding virtual objects to the camera feed. Facebook Reality Labs.

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Facebook is shutting down its Face Recognition tagging program

The Verge

Facebook previously restricted facial recognition to an opt-in feature in 2019. By shutting down a feature it’s used for years , Meta is hoping to bolster user confidence in its privacy protections as it prepares a rollout of potentially privacy-compromising virtual and augmented reality technology.