 Meta employees are being deployed across London to test the company's AR smartglasses, aka "Project Aria." Testers wearing identifiable vests will wear the glasses to collect data via built-in sensors that measure the wearer's location, hand or eye movements, and other audiovisuals. Meta plans to use the collected data to create an "interoperable and secure Metaverse." More: - The test will help the company develop its metaverse hardware.
- Starting in 2020, 3,000 Meta employees tested the prototype in San Francisco.
- Meta announced that individuals' faces would be blurred and not recorded.
- The AR smartglasses announcement follows Meta's teaser video featuring CEO Mark Zuckerberg experimenting with the company's forthcoming MR headset "Project Cambria."
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The virtual construction platform "Agora" is now "Kojo," signaling the company's rebrand to include a broader range of services. The company's "digital twin" technologies will now track spending, invoices, and warehouse inventories. According to Kojo, the company's automated tools save its users time and grow their revenues by streamlining materials procurement, delivery, and accounting for supply chain shortages. More: - According to the company, Kojo's digital twin technologies save managers upwards of 38% of time spent procuring materials, which it estimates to equal ~$178,888 in productivity gains.
- Kojo also argues its technologies streamline daily tasks by 75% or $124,000 in savings.
- Kojo's CEO and co-founder Maria Rioumine believes this tool has become especially important because "materials prices skyrocketed and supply chain shortages made it difficult for contractors across the country to get the materials they needed to get their jobs done."
- The company's mobile app allows users to monitor various real-time figures, including current orders, amounts of materials, when to reorder materials, and expected deliveries.
- The app can also automate quotes.
- The app should grow Kojo's customer base to include electric, concrete, mechanical, drywall, roofing, flooring companies, and independent contractors.
- Kojo's revenue has quadrupled over the past 12 months.
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 Here's my avatar exploring the store The cannabis company ADC has partnered with Alt Magic to open its first virtual store. Users can explore the 3D marketplace on their phones, tablets, PCs, or using a VR headset. ADC metaverse visitors can explore the space as avatars, research products, and make purchases. More: - Users can also talk with specialists or explore other educational modules throughout the virtual space.
- The company plans to host podcasts that will discuss products and the cannabis industry shortly.
- The store opened to a select few earlier this year on 4/20.
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 The company behind "Ingress" and "Pokémon Go" have launched a location-based AR platform for developers. Using Niantic's so-called "Visual Positioning System" or "VPS" program, developers can create location-aware, AR-capable apps. Niantic's VPS announcement coincides with its debut of "Campfire." "Campfire" uses the company's VPS platform to connect users in AR and organize in-person gatherings. More: - The AR-enabled platform allows users on multiple devices to share AR experiences.
- Niantic began developing VPS in 2018 using aggregated data from the phone cameras of "Ingress" and "Pokémon Go" players.
- The platform supports ~20,000 "VPS-activated locations," including sections of major cities like San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle.
- Developers can use the VPS platform to access location-specific, browser-based AR capabilities.
- The platform supports multiplayer integrations.
- According to CEO John Hanke, "they're not just features on somebody else's service, but they're actually applications that can exist on their own and that whole companies can be built around."
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The Miami-based company YUPIX creates traversable, 3D visualization of buildings still under construction. The VR-enabled platform could render blueprints and physical models redundant. Currently, the company is using the product to sell residences in Miami, for example, at the downtown, 65-story "E11EVEN Hotel Residences Beyond." More: - YUPIX aims to bring VR to real estate agencies.
- The platform provides users a life-like, 3D rendering of their project as it is predicted to look and function at completion.
- YUPIX's spatial computing can hasten the design and building processes, identify inconsistencies, and quicken time-to-sale.
- In the future, the company plans to enter new markets and allows users to purchase real estate directly from the platform.
- According to the company's co-founder Alvaro Alesso, "the term YUPIX comes from the fact that you choose your own reality, what you want to see, and you are the main character."
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 Singaporean artist and Cultural Medallion recipient Goh Beng Kwan is working with his daughter Hazeleen Goh to transform his abstract works into AR displays. While experimenting with new AR-visualization capabilities, the duo has already minted four of Goh Beng Kwan's works as NFTs. The two hopes their efforts will attract younger art lovers. More: - The duo began working in AR while presenting Kwan's work at a hotel where they were not permitted to use screws.
- The hotel-exhibition "#GBK85" will run until May 29 at the Conrad Centennial Singapore.
- The exhibition celebrates the respected artist's 85th birthday.
- Visitors can scan walls to view the artworks on their phones using the duo's custom ArtAF (short for Art Affairs) app.
- According to Goh, "we feel that the app will help more people collect art and make it more accessible."
- One of Kwan's mix-media works is currently on view at the National Gallery Singapore’s collection.
- The father-daughter group has been using digital programs to preserve Kwan's work and create a virtual archive.
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- VR specialist Joy Way announced that the game "Outlier" has been scrapped and its development halted.
- A civil-rights-focused AR-enabled book aims to teach young Americans about well-known activists. The book's most-recent edition includes scannable QR codes that launch interactive modules with AR capabilities.
- Advising its readership about recent cryptocurrency fluctuations, the fashion magazine Vogue is advising its readers — particularly marketers — to consider Web2.5 technologies such as connecting Web3 assets to physical goods.
- The clothier Gap has launched a teen-focused storefront in the Roblox metaverse. The local includes a virtual juice bar, photo booth, customizable clothing, fashion shows, and games.
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 |  | Courtney Rawlings is an Inside Research Analyst living in Los Angeles, California. She has returned to her hometown of LA after spending several years working at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is completing a Ph.D. in Art and Architectural History. While working toward her Ph.D., Courtney has developed an interest in the language and history of the tech industry, especially regarding metaverse technologies, streaming, and podcasting. In fact, she hosted her own podcast Low Culture Boil! You can find her on Twitter: @ckayerawlings Email: courtney@inside.com |  | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 Ford. | |
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