The hottest AR Substack posts right now

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The AI is eating itself

Platformer • 3419 implied HN points • 27 Jun 23
🕹 Technology AI Social media E-commerce AR Cybersecurity
  1. Generative AI is dramatically impacting the internet with a variety of changes to platforms and services.
  2. The increasing use of AI-generated content poses challenges such as misinformation, disruption, and a dilution of human wisdom.
  3. Research shows that relying on AI systems to generate data can lead to degradation and collapse of models, raising concerns for the future of the web.
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Frame Smart Glasses from Brilliant Labs Are a Vehicle for an Always-There AI Assistant

Synthedia • 39 implied HN points • 11 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Generative AI AR Open Source
  1. Brilliant Labs' Frame Smart Glasses are designed to integrate generative AI, offering features missing in other smart glasses like AR functionality, visual recognition, and speech recognition.
  2. The competitive price point of $349 makes Frame Smart Glasses a strong contender in the market against other smart glasses like Snap Spectacles and Meta Ray-Bans.
  3. Smart glasses, unlike VR goggles, aim to augment the real world with digital services, leading to a potentially larger market and representing the next evolution in digital platforms.

AR and the (Possible) Return of Skeuomorphism

Thoughts • 19 implied HN points • 11 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AR UI Design Virtual reality User Experience
  1. Skeuomorphism was a popular UI design concept that mimicked physical objects, making interfaces user-friendly for those new to technology.
  2. Affordances in digital interfaces, as seen in skeuomorphism, help users interact intuitively, like how door handles suggest pushing or rotating.
  3. With AR/XR devices gaining popularity, there's potential for a comeback of skeuomorphism in a more functional form, bridging virtual and physical worlds.

Links for 2024-02-03

Axis of Ordinary • 19 implied HN points • 03 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI AR
  1. AI model can detect high-risk pancreatic cancer patients 18 months early
  2. Efficient tool use with chain-of-abstraction reasoning by Meta
  3. France increases military budget by 40% for 2024-2030 period

A digital board game on your dinner table

Worldish • 35 implied HN points • 16 Feb 23
🕹 Technology AR VR TikTok Gaming
  1. Play an AR board game with holographic images on your table with people in the same room or remotely.
  2. Watch improv actors in VR interact as animated characters, a trend where anyone can be an animated character.
  3. Explore face-tracking capabilities in VRChat allowing avatars to be controlled in real time by real people.

Crazy Ideas

Digital Native • 0 implied HN points • 25 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI AR Entertainment Startups Innovation
  1. Questioning the status quo and imagining a different world is crucial for predicting future innovations and business opportunities.
  2. Advancements in AI technology are shaping a future where subtitles may become obsolete as AI translations and avatars become more advanced.
  3. The blending of physical and digital worlds through technologies like AR will revolutionize entertainment, storytelling, and everyday life.

The Spatial Web is Coming — Part 1

Spatial Web AI by Denise Holt • 0 implied HN points • 10 Oct 22
🕹 Technology AI AR VR IOT Blockchain
  1. The Spatial Web involves the convergence of technologies like AR, VR, AI, and IoT in a unified network for a seamless experience.
  2. Many Web3 technologies lack a common language protocol, causing them to be isolated and not fully interconnected.
  3. For the future Spatial Web browsing experience, a unique protocol like HSTP is needed to connect physical and virtual entities for a smarter, more integrated world.

The Spatial Web is Coming — Part 2

Spatial Web AI by Denise Holt • 0 implied HN points • 11 Oct 22
🕹 Technology AR VR AI IOT
  1. The Spatial Web integrates AR, VR, AI, IOT, and Distributed Ledger innovation to blend real and virtual worlds.
  2. Smart Technologies include Smart Spaces, Smart Assets, Smart Contracts, Smart Accounts, Smart IDs, and Smart Payments.
  3. These technologies enable programmable spaces, ownership verification, secure transactions, self-sovereign identity, and automated payments in the Web 3.0 ecosystem.

Apple Vision Pro - Indie Hardware PT 2

Product Lost by @hipcityreg • 0 implied HN points • 02 Jul 23
🕹 Technology Hardware Software VR AR AI
  1. Apple unveiled the Vision Pro headset with impressive features like eye-tracking and a focus on spatial computing.
  2. Apple is emphasizing its shift to creating its own hardware and chips, aiming to be deeply integrated into users' lives.
  3. The tech industry is seeing a rise in new hardware experiments, particularly driven by a desire to innovate in AI and create new forms of software.