Robert Downey Jr. joins Snap’s SPECS as honorary customer experience chief

Reviving Google Cardboard, Without Google Or Cardboard

CardboardXR is a project reviving phone-based VR using modern flagship phones like the Pixel 9 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro. Creator [brenpoly] bills it as 'A 5$ Apple Vision Pro', which holds only if you already own a flagship phone. It achieves 6 degrees of freedom tracking, camera passthrough, object detection, hand tracking, and gesture control, which is impressive compared to the 3DOF and zero tracking of old mobile VR. The software is based on Unity and takes major inspiration from Google's open-sourced Cardboard SDK, and the 3D-printed headset design with adjustable optics is available on Makerworld.

Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology

Outcrop is a geology app for iPhone and Android. It shows the geologic map wherever you are and, in augmented reality, draws it onto the land in front of you with each rock unit named. Works offline.

Investor urges Snap to raise outside capital for Specs

Tập đoàn Blue Duck Capital đề xuất Snap bán 20% mảng Specs với định giá 5 tỷ USD. Kỹ thuật AR trên kính Specs sẽ ra mắt tại thị trường Mỹ, Anh và Pháp vào mùa thu này. Ở Pháp, cơ quan dữ liệu CNIL đã bắt đầu hành động liên quan đến Specs. Giao dịch này sẽ giúp Snap huy động vốn để phát triển công nghệ thực tế tăng cường mà không cần làm loãng cổ phần công ty mẹ. Đây là cơ hội tốt để các nhà đầu tư tham gia vào thị trường AR đang tăng trưởng nhanh chóng.

Snap nên xem xét đề xuất này để tăng nguồn lực tài chính cho Specs, đẩy nhanh tiến độ ra thị trường và giảm thiểu rủi ro pháp lý từ cơ quan bảo vệ dữ liệu.

Never lose robot data again: automatic ROS 2 bag recording and upload

If you work with robots, perhaps you’ve come up against a common, but annoying situation: the one field run that mattered is the one nobody recorded. Or it was recorded but the ROS 2 bag (a recording of ROS 2 topics) is sitting in the robot’s storage, at a customer site, three time zones away. […]

Snap settles lawsuit accusing platform of fueling teen depression and eating disorders

The plaintiffs said they started using YouTube as young as age 3 and other social media platforms at around age 9 and developed compulsive usage habits that they attributed to features such as autoplay and infinite scrolling.

Introducing Three-Live: turning AI-generated Three.js into interactive 3D, AR, and WebXR across web and mobile

Meet Three-Live: an Apache 2.0 library and on-device Rust/Boa compiler turning AI-generated Three.js code into glTF 2.0, USDZ, and WebXR in ≤ 50 KB.

Seoul Biosys Begins Production of Rare Earth-Free White Micro LEDs

Seoul Biosys has commenced the production of micro LEDs that generate white light without the use of rare earth elements. Unlike traditional white LEDs that rely on rare earth-based phosphors to create color, the new technology allows for the implementation of white light in chips smaller than 100µm without additional rare earth materials or packag...

Snapchat surpasses 30M paid subscribers

The milestone comes a year after Snapchat announced a controversial limit on free storage for its Memories feature and informed users it would start requiring users to pay $1.99 per month for additional storage or subscribe to Snapchat+ to retain their Memories.