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Industrial metaverse gains real-life traction

Digital transformation strategies are moving towards a common approach in which a single suite of diverse technologies helps bring cost, time, and resource efficiencies

Meta to lay off employees in metaverse-oriented silicon unit today

The FAST unit, which has roughly 600 employees, worked on developing custom chips to equip Meta's devices to perform unique tasks and operate more efficiently

Mark Zuckerberg kicks off Meta event on future of AR, VR investments

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the tech giant's Connect developer conference on Wednesday with a focus on virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence. The company, which renamed itself Meta two years ago, unveiled the next version of its virtual reality headset, the Quest 3. It will cost USD 499 and begin shipping October 10. Standing in a courtyard at his company's Menlo Park, California headquarters, Zuckerberg told the audience of developers, employees and journalists that Meta is focused on building the future of human connection and painted a near-future where people interact with hologram versions of their friends or coworkers and with AI bots built to assist them. Soon the physical and digital will come together in what we call the metaverse, he said. Meta is in the midst of a corporate transformation that it says will take years to complete. It wants to evolve from a provider of social platforms to a dominant power in a nascent virtual-reality world call

Zuckerberg to open developer conference with AI, virtual reality focus

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will kick off the tech giant's Connect developer conference on Wednesday with a focus on virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence (AI). The company, which renamed itself Meta two years ago, is expected to unveil the next version of its virtual reality headset, the Quest 3 and discuss AI chat-bots and other tools and features designed to keep users interested in Facebook and Instagram as competition with TikTok continues. This remains Meta's biggest challenge, said Insider Intelligence analyst Yoram Wurmser. A lot of this effort around chat-bots and stories and other ways just to keep engagement going (like) AI-driven personalization and stuff like that, that's the overarching challenge for the company, he said. Squeezed by a slump in online advertising and uncertainty around the global economy, Meta has cut more than 20,000 jobs since last November. Zuckerberg dubbed 2023 the company's year of efficiency as it reduces its workforce while ..

Meta and LG working together on Apple Vision Pro competitor: Details here

Meta has a Quest line of virtual reality headsets, which it plans to expand together with LG to take on newcomers such as Apple in the mixed reality headgear market

Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd to provide VR-based safety training to workforce

A budget of Rs 6.5 crore has been earmarked for the skill enhancement of coal miners, the company said.

A new reality

Apple's latest gadget will have to prove its utility

Meta announces a fund for Indian startups building XR apps

Up to five Indian developers 18 years or more, and startups will receive a financial grant, along with dedicated mentoring and guidance from the Meta Reality Labs experts

Google reportedly cancels 'Project Iris' augmented reality smart glasses

Google is no longer focusing on developing its own hardware for extended reality devices. Instead, the company is developing a software platform called 'micro XR'

TMSEp455: Subhash Chandra, data security Q&A, AMC stocks, spatial computing

Is this the end of the road for Subhash Chandra? What can the alleged CoWin data leak teach India? How will the new TER structure impact AMC stocks? What is spatial computing? Answers here

Samsung planning to unveil AR/VR headset sensor for image recognition

Tech giant Samsung is reportedly planning to unveil a new time-of-flight (ToF) sensor for AR/VR (mixed reality) headsets which will feature an on-chip Image Signal Processor (ISP)

Mixed reality searches on Google rise 1,130% after Apple unveils Vision Pro

The online searches for Mixed Reality (MR) skyrocketed 1,130 per cent globally on Google after Apple unveiled its MR headset Vision Pro last week, a report showed on Monday

HTC announces enterprise-centric Vive Focus 3 VR headset in India: Details

The HTC Vive Focus 3 VR headset boasts 5K resolution display of 120-degree field-of-view as standard

AI may help predict cybersickness in VR users to make tech more accessible

"Cybersickness is one of the factors that hinders the users from using VR devices because of the great discomfort due to the VR experience"

Apple may open applications for Vision Pro developer kit next month

Without specifying a specific date, Tomozei said, "it seems you will be able to apply for a #VisionPro dev kit in July"

Here's how 'overpriced' Apple Vision Pro could save its VR competitors

With Apple giving rivals a template for how a mixed-reality headset should work, and by providing vendors a guide for making the parts required, the entire industry will get a boost

Neuro feedback devices that read your mind are here

Mind-reading devices read the movement of pupils, heart rates and brain impulses. They will be able to predict human movement, action and thought

Apple's pricey new Vision Pro headset is not something to be dismissed

Apple has done what many technology observers had thought impossible. It has made mixed-reality computing interesting and appealing

Apple Vision Pro headset to offer immersive spatial experience at $3499

In the same way Mac introduced us to personal computing and iPhone introduced us to mobile computing, Apple Vision Pro will introduce us to spatial computing, said Tim Cook

Apple Inc planning to provide hands-on demos of AR/VR headset at WWDC

Apple is reportedly planning to provide some developers and attendees with an opportunity to try out the new AR/VR headset (mixed reality) at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2023