News Startup Minimis Introduces Smart Glasses That Can Display Stats and Maps These glasses, enabled with eSIM support, offer information about ongoing workouts and assist with real-time navigation. Moreover, users can sync Minimis Glass with wireless headphones to stream music via Spotify.
News Niantic Unveiled a Prototype of a New AR Headset Powered by Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1 One of the main innovations is the multiplayer mode of operation. It is based on a visual positioning system that allows a virtual object to be linked to a real location so that several people wearing AR glasses see it in the same place at once.
News Apple Showed Off Its AR Headset to the Company's Board of Directors Apple has already shown its AR headset to board members, which means that it is almost ready for release. Most likely, the novelty will be presented to the public later this year, and it will go on sale in 2023.
News Google Is Working on an AR Headset Codenamed Project Iris Like upcoming headsets from Meta and Apple, Google's headset uses outward-facing cameras to bring computer graphics into the real world, creating a more immersive mixed reality experience.
News Apple's Rumored AR Glasses May Be as Powerful as a Mac Kuo's report also mentions that the augmented reality headset will most likely receive two Micro OLED displays from Sony with 4K resolution, thanks to which it will be able to support virtual reality experiences as well.
News Microsoft Introduces Mesh for Teams to Collaborate in the Metaverse Microsoft plans to combine its software products into a single metaverse where people can interact with each other using augmented and virtual reality. In Mesh for Teams, users can create their own virtual 3D avatar and use it during meetings.
News Facebook Is Developing AI That Will See the World Through Human Eyes Ego4D will record and analyze real-time videos from the users' devices to help people in their daily lives. The project is being developed by Facebook specialists and scientists from 13 universities and labs across nine countries.
