Tom Emrich 🏳️🌈
AR/Wearables Pioneer 🚀On a mission 2 make #AugmentedReality 4 Everyone @the8thWall 🤩 Formerly @ARealityEvent, @Super_Ventures, @WeAreWearables / Tweets my own
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The Future of Surgery
Tour a vision of an operating room where autonomous robots, augmented-reality goggles and troves of data help surgeons improve outcomes for patients
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Great interactive post on "The Future of Surgery" by WSJ including a look at how AR enables "The New X-Ray Vision"
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Snapchat has turned London into an augmented reality experiment
Snap has launched its first persistent, shareable augmented reality experience on London’s Carnaby Street – it’s a proof of concept for a 1:1 digital copy of everything on the planet
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Snapchat has turned London into an augmented reality experiment | Snap has launched its first persistent, shareable augmented reality experience on London’s Carnaby Street – it’s a proof of concept for a 1:1 digital copy of everything on the planet
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Holograms Are Here: 8th Wall’s End-to-End Solution for Microsoft MRCS Volumetric Video
Holograms are here! 8th Wall is pleased to introduce our end-to-end solution to create WebAR projects using Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios (MRCS) vo...
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🎉 @the8thwall just announced our end-to-end WebAR Hologram Solution making it extremely easy to create and publish WebAR Projects with volumetric video from Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios 👉Check it out:
youtu.be/pHhU2HoYUXc
#WebAR #holograms #augmentedreality
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Facebook‘s Smart Glasses Peek Out from the Curtain.
FACEBOOK’S SMARTGLASSES ARE TAKING SHAPE A week ago today The Information broke a story about Facebook’s “exclusive” deal with Plessey. Plessey is a UK based manufacturer of MicroLED displays.
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👀👉Another must read piece from @chrisgrayson breaking down what the Plessey relationship means for Facebook and how it might hint at the components and players that will make Facebook glasses a reality 👓💥
linkedin.com/pulse/facebook…
#AugmentedReality
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20 for 2020: Augmented Reality Trends and How They May Play Out This Year
20 Augmented Reality Trends to Keep Your Eye on This Year
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20 for 2020: 20 Augmented Reality Trends and How They May Play Out This Year
medium.com/@tomemrich/20-…
#AR #AugmentedReality
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Augmented Reality is for Everyone, or Why I Am Joining 8th Wall
I am extremely excited to share some news.
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Big news! 🎉🎉 I've joined @the8thwall as VP of Product. I am really excited to work with @erikmurphyc on making augmented reality for everyone. Read more about the announcement and how we can work together here on my blog medium.com/@tomemrich/aug… #AugmentedReality
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Google used photogrammetry to create a detailed VR tour of Versailles
Google's Versailles castle VR app takes you on a private, guided tour and lets you inspect objects up close.
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Google used photogrammetry to create a detailed VR tour of Versailles. It's the largest photogrammetry capture ever done on the site. buff.ly/2mjzlUa pic.twitter.com/KmEwEbHayx
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Kuo: Apple's AR Headset to Launch in Second Quarter of 2020
Apple's augmented reality headset will enter mass production as soon as the fourth quarter of this year in time for an early 2020 launch,...
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"Kuo understands that Apple's AR glasses will be marketed as an iPhone accessory and primarily take a display role while wirelessly offloading computing, networking, and positioning to the iPhone."
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Apple’s ARKit3.0 just made AR actually useful (for us)
Apple is just about to release a new iOS that will take the AR experience to the next level. Here are our experimentations.
Scape is 3D-mapping 100 cities to precisely anchor AR objects
A UK-based startup is building multiple city-scale 3D maps that will enable accurate placement and viewing of persistent AR objects.
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Scape is 3D-mapping 100 cities to precisely anchor AR objects buff.ly/2UfDsgk pic.twitter.com/7jrBHnXiOY
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Apple Invents a Complete Sensory System for Future Mixed Reality Headset
Apple has filed a series of Mixed Reality Head Mounted Displays system patent applications in 2019 that use a specific style of graphics (01, 02, 03, 04) and today the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's fifth such patent application...
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Apple Invents a Complete Sensory System for Future Mixed Reality Headset buff.ly/2YXVzco pic.twitter.com/3yAya437e2
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Facemoji, an app that lets you create your own virtual avatar, has over 2 million downloads by tapping into what makes teens in 2019 different from other generations
Facemoji has over 2 million users and creates digital avatars that compete with popular platforms like Bitmoji and Memoji.
Louis Vuitton Demonstrates Stunning AR Technology-Infused Sneakers and Accessories
All seen at Viva Technology 2019.
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Louis Vuitton Demonstrates Stunning AR Technology-Infused Sneakers and Accessories
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Facebook reveals more details on AR glasses in new patent
It suggests Facebook intends the glasses to be worn for an extended period of time.
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Facebook reveals more details on AR glasses in new patent buff.ly/2M4GljN pic.twitter.com/TUtvhgA7IC
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Reality Check: The marvel of computer vision technology in today’s camera-based AR systems – TechCrunch
Augmented reality has the potential to instill awe and wonder in us just as magic would. For the very first time in the history of computing, we now have the ability to blur the line between the...
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The incredible @alexchuang72 answers these questions in his latest for @TechCrunch
How do computers know
- where it is in the world? (Localization + Mapping)
- understand what the world looks like? (Geometry)
- understand the world as we do? (Semantics)
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Christian Venables (@csavenables) • Instagram photos and videos
87.9k Followers, 2,378 Following, 516 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Christian Venables (@csavenables)
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Instagram Camera Effect collaborations are a growing trend & are seeing massive success. Filter artist @csavenables1990 reported that his #BriePearls effect (in collab w/ @brielarson) hit 10M impressions in the first 24 hrs. Get it here instagram.com/csavenables?ut… #AugmentedReality pic.twitter.com/GhNuBxNHtT
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Tom Emrich
One of the best moments on stage at the #F8 keynote today was the spotlight Facebook put on the amazing Spark AR Creators. I have been so in awe by this community! Today Johanna Janoski and Snehaal...
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45 Instagram Camera Effect Creators to follow (add to this list to celebrate the Spark AR community) facebook.com/797910388/post… pic.twitter.com/63IgLg8fyW
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Babble Rabbit
Bunnies are super cute, but they don't enjoy traveling. That's why we created Babble Rabbit, an augmented reality app that lets you play with a cute bunny in whatever space you happen to be in.
Your Babble Rabbit loves to talk and to listen to...
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Bring a bunch of SMILES to your family this Easter with @BabbleRabbit now LIVE in the App Store. This bunny responds to voice and the AR is LIT cuz of 6D.ai's occlusion and multi-player support. Download here
itunes.apple.com/us/app/babble-…
Congrats @patchedreality
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How Niantic is preparing for AR’s ubiquitous future
Niantic CEO John Hanke talks about why developers should continue pursuing AR, and how it can be a force for good if done right.
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“A key part of that platform is what the company calls Advanced AR, which Hanke described as a “common layer” between ARKit and ARCore technologies. It also taps into the AR Cloud, which will create better and more believable shared experiences” buff.ly/2D1PzGF pic.twitter.com/c7gSAbnQ9I
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