Industry Keyword: AR
Internet of Things (IoT)
Meta’s Zuckerberg unveils AI projects aimed at building metaverse future
Facebook-owner Meta is working on artificial intelligence research to generate worlds through speech, improve how people chat to voice assistants and translate between languages, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday, as he sketched out...
Internet of Things (IoT)
Facebook rebrands itself as ‘Meta’
Facebook Inc is now called Meta, the company has said, in a rebrand that focuses on building the "metaverse," a shared virtual environment that it bets will be the successor to the mobile internet.
The...
Internet of Things (IoT)
Facebook invests billions in metaverse efforts as ad business slows
Facebook said it will start publishing the financial results of its augmented and virtual reality labs as a separate unit, where it is investing billions in its ambitions to build the "metaverse" and as...
App Stores
Understanding the “metaverse”?
Facebook, which is under fire from regulators and lawmakers across the world, is planning to rebrand itself with a new name that focuses on the metaverse, well connected tech publication the Verge has reported.
The...
Communication & Collaboration
Snap launches studio to create augmented reality ads
Snap Inc is launching a studio to help brands create augmented reality advertising and experiences, part of a move to popularize the use of technology that can overlay computer-generated images onto a person's view...
Internet of Things (IoT)
Snap Inc hires first global head of platform safety
Snapchat's owner has hired a longtime online safety advocate as its first global head of platform safety, Snap Inc told journalists, as the company continues to ramp up efforts around user safety and as...
Gaming Platforms
Facebook sets up new team to work on the ‘metaverse’
Facebook is creating a product team to work on the "metaverse," a digital world where people can move between different devices and communicate in a virtual environment, its Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has...
Content Production
Better visualisation and immersive content
In this part of our series on Contributor Payment Models we look at visualisations... and where this ongoing change is taking us.
The conflation of content innovation; contextualisation via new technologies; and audience development is...
Mobile & Infrastructure
Snap to buy augmented reality company WaveOptics for over $500 million
Snap has said it will acquire WaveOptics, a UK-based augmented reality (AR) technology company, for over $500 million.
The deal, first reported by The Verge and confirmed by a Snap spokesman, will help the owner...
Internet of Things (IoT)
Microsoft wins huge contract with US Army to supply augmented reality headsets
Microsoft has said it has won a deal to sell the US Army augmented reality headsets based on its HoloLens product and backed by Azure cloud computing services.
The contract could be worth up to...
Gaming Platforms
Nintendo partners with Pokemon Go maker Niantic on Pikmin app
Nintendo has stated that it is partnering with Pokemon Go app developer Niantic to create augmented reality (AR) titles, with a Pikmin themed app launching this year.
The partnership could breathe life into Nintendo's stalled...
Internet of Things (IoT)
Suited avatars and digital offices: bankers embrace Virtual Reality
After the preserve of players, virtual reality was seized on by the financial industry as a means of enlivening home functioning for lonely traders or isolated executives and replicating real-world sales, training or networking...