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Jan 24, 2022

The Metaverse Set Off A Battle Between Tech Giants Google, Apple, Microsoft And Meta To Build Virtual And Augmented Reality Headsets

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, computing, mobile phones

Google’s AR headsets, internally codenamed Project Iris, are expected to be released in 2024. Its device uses “outward-facing cameras to blend computer graphics with a video feed of the real world, creating a more immersive, mixed reality experience than existing AR glasses.” The hardware is “powered by a custom Google processor, like its newest Google Pixel smartphone, and runs on Android, though recent job listings indicate that a unique OS is in the works.”

Google Glass, the prior foray into AR, didn’t gain widespread consumer interest or adoption. The Verge says that the work on the project began to pick up speed recently. As of now, there isn’t a “clearly defined go-to-market strategy.” According to the Verge, Google is keeping the project secret, requiring “special keycard access” and “non-disclosure agreements.”

Facebook said it would hire around 10,000 workers around the world to build Meta and related products. A search on LinkedIn’s job board for “metaverse” shows thousands of listings. For people looking for fast-growing opportunities, you may want to look at pivoting into virtual and augmented reality and related opportunities in the metaverse.

Jan 24, 2022

Faster technique for resetting quantum circuits proposed

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Rebooting a quantum computer is a tricky process that can damage its parts, but now two RIKEN physicists have proposed a fast and controllable way to hit reset.

Conventional computers process information stored as bits that take a value of zero or one. The potential power of quantum computers lies in their ability to process ‘qubits’ that can take a value of zero or one—or be some fuzzy mix of both simultaneously.

“However, to reuse the same circuit for multiple operations, you have to force the qubits back to zero fast,” says Jaw Shen Tsai, a quantum physicist at the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing. But that is easier said than done.

Jan 23, 2022

How Intel squandered the chip shortage to lose its semiconductor crown

Posted by in category: computing

Revenue across all chipmakers soared 25% amid the chip shortage, but revenue at Intel, a former pioneer, barely budged.

Jan 23, 2022

Linking brains to computers: how new implants are helping us achieve this goal

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience

Researchers have developed implants small enough to fit inside brain cells.

Jan 23, 2022

Brain device records activity in record-breaking detail

Posted by in categories: computing, media & arts, neuroscience

Beyond that, the ECoG technology could be developed for use in the emerging field of brain-computer interfaces, which have a huge range of potential applications – from controlling a computer just by thinking, to streaming music directly to your brain.

By uncovering new knowledge about how the brain works, for example, the device could be used to interpret hand motions in new ways utilising brain wave patterns.

Jan 23, 2022

2022: The Year in which Virtual Reality goes Mainstream

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience, virtual reality

The Future of Virtual Reality has been shown at CES 2022 in the form of retina display VR Headsets, full body tracking solutions and brain computer interfaces previewing what the future of full dive virtual reality could look like. Companies such as Meta/Facebook, Google, Apple and Valve are all investing millions into making Virtual Reality mainstream and look just like real life.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 A vision into the Future at CES
00:50 Next Generation VR Headsets.
02:29 The Future of VR Hardware.
04:47 VR CPU’s & GPU’s.
07:00 Is the Future of VR Mainstream?
07:48 Last Words.

#virtualreality #vr #future

Jan 22, 2022

Quantum Computing in Silicon Just Made a Major Breakthrough. 99% Efficiency?

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

Jan 22, 2022

243-Year-Old Impossible Puzzle Solved Using Quantum Entanglement

Posted by in categories: computing, mathematics, quantum physics

Over 240 years ago, famous mathematician Leonhard Euler came up with a question: if six army regiments each have six officers of six different ranks, can they be arranged in a square formation such that no row or column repeats either a rank or regiment?

After searching in vain for a solution, Euler declared the problem impossible – and over a century later, the French mathematician Gaston Tarry proved him right. Then, 60 years after that, when the advent of computers removed the need for laboriously testing every possible combination by hand, the mathematicians Parker, Bose, and Shrikhande proved an even stronger result: not only is the six-by-six square impossible, but it’s the only size of square other than two-by-two that doesn’t have a solution at all.

Jan 22, 2022

Nuclear quantum computing: It’s coming

Posted by in categories: computing, economics, quantum physics

Silicon-based, nuclear, quantum gate computers? In this economy? Get ready for the future, Uncle Sam’s footing the bill. property= description.

Jan 21, 2022

Quantum computing passes 99% error-free threshold, now fault tolerant

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Researchers from three different institutes have exceeded 99% fidelity in quantum computing operations, achieving fault tolerance.