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Epic Games sues AR company Nreal for sounding too much like ‘Unreal’

The Verge

The China-based Nreal makes an augmented reality headset known as the Nreal Light, which projects 3D objects into real space, and it’s developed a demo game called Nreal Tower. Its glasses shipped in Korea last year, and Nreal has gradually expanded their availability, announcing plans for a US launch in the second quarter of 2021.

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Intel thinks the metaverse will need a thousand-fold increase in computing capability

The Verge

The state of the art in VR still requires thousands of dollars of PC gaming hardware, with plenty of drawbacks (like requiring a tethered headset and graphics that still don’t measure up to what 2021’s best flatscreen games can offer). Hardware improvements alone won’t be enough, either.

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How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race

Vox

From games to crypto mining to AI In 1993, long before uncanny AI-generated art and amusing AI chatbot convos took over our social media feeds, three Silicon Valley electrical engineers launched a startup that would focus on an exciting, fast-growing segment of personal computing: video games. Then the pandemic broke out.

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A short history of every time Apple CEO Tim Cook praised augmented reality

The Verge

And nobody in here, few people in here, think it’s acceptable to be tethered to a computer walking in here and sitting down, few people are going to view that it’s acceptable to be enclosed in something, because we’re all social people at heart. Even introverts are social people, we like people and we want to interact.

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Computer vision is primed for business value

CIO Business Intelligence

But hardware shortages and labor disruptions in the pandemic’s wake are challenging companies’ ability to make good on the promise of computer vision, even as the pandemic itself has accelerated the potential of its use cases. “The According to Gartner, obstacles to adoption include hardware shortages and lack of processing capabilities.

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The PS5 is priced, the Oculus Quest 2 launched, and the GoPro Hero 9 reviewed

The Verge

Microsoft has bundled its hardware into a subsidy plan with its game streaming service. And as I’ve discussed before, this round of new consoles, new PC hardware, and new delivery mechanisms is just groundwork. Oculus — a company owned by social giant Facebook — has done some of its best work so far. This thing looks great.

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Meta is facing the test of its lifetime

Vox

In a memo to Meta’s staff also posted on social media, one of Meta’s top executives, CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, reflected on Monday about the difficult moment the company is in. But Meta still needs to keep making money by growing its main business: selling ads on social media.