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I am bored with reality, so last week, I participated Enhanced world expo Long Beach, in CA, to examine other options, such as a promotional reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR).
The promoted World Expo has been since 2010, “People worldwide chasing my lofty goals of enabling people to learn, connect and grow within the XR industry. I do not know about all that, but I got to examine new equipment and applications that we work, relax, and can relate to each other. Some of the main attractions can be related to each other.
Snapdragon AR1+ Gen 1 Chip
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The biggest technical news of the promoted World Expo 2025 was announced by Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1+ Gen 1 ChipThe brain that will give a lot of power to the next generation smart glasses.
“I don’t like a big thing on my head” and “Wait, i want to be added to my phone too?” There are two common problems that are with VR/AR, and AR1+ aims to solve both. This allows for on-device AI processing, and the camera improves quality, performance quality and energy efficiency. I tried a pair of Snap Tamasha 4 smart glass powered by this chip, and it is impressive.
RP1 spatial browser
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I agree, I was a little surprised what Rp1 Trying to do it first. The purpose of “the world’s first metavors browser” is “to add the world’s population to a single, consistent XR ecosystem, providing on-demand access to unlimited self-hosted 3D content and services.” But then an assistant representative placed it in such a way: “Remember how AOL and Composerva were completely separate camps? And then the web made a normal place for everyone? We are doing this with 3D spaces,” and it was understood all. This idea is to provide a platform for all emergency XR (extended reality) spaces, so it does not matter what equipment you are using to see them. you can See it now, by the way,
Xreal Eye
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I was influenced by the Xaral Air 2 Pro Glass of reviews last year, and this growth improves them. Xreal Eye is a small camera that combines 6DOF (ie 6 degrees of freedom, so your head and body can naturally move into space: up/bottom, left/right, back/back) tracking, makes the virtual material more immersive and natural. I briefly tried it on the show floor, and this is Very Impressive. See for a complete review soon.
Lumas Z -30 optical engine
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Sometimes in Tech Convention, you take it to a back room and show some Pure Tech, prototypes that are not yet commercially available. Lumas (“The leading developer of geometric wavegide technology for the enhanced reality”) took me to a bare conference room to check the Z-30 optical engine. The device called me “wow” like I was Keenu Reavs. See the picture above; The light matter on the edge of the glasses is a small projector that throws a 720 x 720 pixel image on the clear glass of the lens, and only you can see it. You can use it to add a customized hud to your life, without anyone to know that you are a huge stupid, or look at the tiktok secretly while interacting.
Camp fire
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Those who know that those who regularly use VR in the workplace are my friends who design set for stop-motion animation. This is niche, I realize, but in any way anyone working in the associate 3D design should keep a long look Camp fireThis lets you see the CAD with other people on a scale of 1: 1, everyone is in a circle around the virtual 3D object as it is a camp fire.
Freeaim operated ar shoes
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Freeaim vr shoes “How do you roam in virtual reality?” Their solution: Create the operated shoes that will return the user to its original position after taking a step. I did not get a chance to try them, as I did not have enough confidence in my balance, but I am eager to examine a pair in a more controlled environment.
What do you think so far?
Virtue
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Comes through another approach to “Walking in VR” VirtueA treadmill device that allows you to walk and run virtually without passing through low-stubborn technology. In other words, it is an extremely slippery, bowl -shaped floor with an exploitation and scaffold that keeps you straight. Tell me, this is Very Slipari – The kind of thing that is disappointing until you rely on it – but once you are on that hump, this is a viable solution.
Simtryx
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I tried a bunch of AR and VR Games in Awe Expo, and was playing with the most fun till now Simtryx AI Medical Training Device. In Awe (extremely enjoyable) Simtryx representative explained that this is not really a game; It is an XR+AI simulator designed to train medical professionals, but when a VR patient complains of abdominal pain, I am going To Play the doctor. I tried to convince AI Bot that her appendicitis was psychosomatic, then determined Ton Pain of killers. The poor man was dead in about three minutes.
dream Park
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The image above looks like some sad inflatables on a concrete floor, but if you slip on a meta quest running dream ParkIt becomes a colorful level of a Mario-esk platformor, which is completed with golden coins to collect, lava to avoid, and more. This is not the kind of thing you can probably do in your house, but it will be perfect on the collapse of the lively retail field once in place of a child’s birthday party, or Santa Monica’s third street Prize. Dreampark weekly experience,
Kinata
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Lifehacker’s resident spin class instructor Lindsay Alefson and I disagree about “game” that come up with a peloton. She loves them; I think they are donkeys. But this is just because he has not tried Kinata As yet. This adds your meta quest 2, 3 or 3S with any Bluetooth bike to provide perfectly gameified fitness on any Bluetooth-SAC treadmill or stable bike. I gave it a shot and found the experience of mirror meta divine In a terrible way.
Floborn Spirit VR
There are many VR and AR apps that provide relaxation, attention and a reflective experience and Floborne Spirit I saw the best in the show. I like the innovative use of the Meta Quest controller: you relax it on your stomach and it responds to your breath. The game made me feel that I had joined a creed, in the best way!
