VR against fear, Xiaomi discovers Google Glass, hand tracking updates

By wsadmin On Aug 8, 2022

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Flashback to the computer future: hand tracking comes in a new quest demo and the cult title Myst VR. Xiaomi’s new AR glasses show once again how far the technology is from everyday life. And Meta releases a fully trained AI chatbot.

VR against fear

The oVRcome app aims to help people overcome phobias such as fear of heights or fear of spiders through the use of VR to overcome glasses. The effectiveness of VR in the treatment of various anxiety disorders has previously been demonstrated in a clinical study.

Meta Quest 2: New hand tracking Demo shows the state of the art

Meta’s official hand tracking demo First Hand impressively shows what is possible with current hand tracking. It should reflect the state of the art.

Myst VR gets hand tracking update

In the 94ern surprised Myst with fancy but static render graphics from the CD. In the year 2022 you can do it yourself stand in the real-time game world and control it with your own hands. Jan’s childhood self would probably not have believed this future story.

Xiaomi shows Google Glass 3 er “Mijia “

Last December, Xiaomi showed a pretty cool demo for slim data glasses as a smartphone extension. Unfortunately, the data glasses “Mijia” that are now being presented are not nearly as chic and are only suitable for everyday use to a limited extent. Sony, which is also said to be involved in Apple’s glasses, supplies the micro-OLED display.

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An eye-catcher guaranteed in everyday life: Xiaomi’s new data glasses.| Image: Xiaomi

Google Robot Performs Inner Monologues & Meta Releases Powerful Chatbot

The language understanding of large AI language models brings advances in many areas of AI, such as image generation. Two current examples:

Google’s new robot system relies on a language model for control. Thanks to internal monologues, the system can interact more flexibly with its environment.

Meta’s new dialogue AI Blenderbot 3, which in the most powerful version on a 175-billion- Parameter model based – this is roughly the dimension of OpenAIs GPT-3.

DALL-E 2 + Sony camera = alternate worlds

One with DALL E 2 connected camera app generates additional AI images to a real subject in near real time. The results are sometimes impressive. The photographer behind the project describes this new photographic process as “gazing into parallel universes”. DALL-E 2 “dream new versions of his pictures” and “show a world that could have been”.

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In MIXEDCAST #310 is about the first practical experiences with DALL-E 2 and Midjourney as well as HTC’s Vive Focus 3 in the B2B context.

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