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| 23.05.2024 | The Evolution of AI Startups: A Closer Look at the Industry's Growth and Challenges | Over the past year, the artificial intelligence (AI) industry has experienced a significant boom, with unicorn startups specializing in AI and machine learning witnessing a remarkable 22.9% increase in valuation in 2023. This surge in inter... |
| 21.05.2024 | Через тернии к «Астре»: Google надеется на умные очки с ИИ | Проект Astra может стать тем самым killer app, которого не хватило Google Glass для массовой популярности, рассказали прессе сооснователь Google Сергей Брин и основатель DeepMind Демис Хассабис.
Project Astra был представлен на прошлой неде... |
| 18.05.2024 | ИИ-марафон: универсальный GPT против россыпи анонсов от Google | 13 мая OpenAI, а 14 мая Google провели яркие оффлайн-конференции, где анонсировали связанные с искусственным интеллектом продукты. Похоже, запуск от OpenAI произвёл гораздо больше впечатления, чем новинки Alphabet.
Главный ИИ-стартап мира п... |
| 28.06.2023 | Google закрыла проект очков дополненной реальности Project Iris | В январе прошлого года сообщалось, что Google создаёт гарнитуру дополненной реальности в рамках проекта Project Iris. Теперь компания отложила свои планы на Project Iris, сообщили источники.
Google сосредоточилась на программном, а не на ап... |
| 30.04.2022 | Med-tech Platform 52 North Health raises GBP 1 Million in First Round of Funding | U.S. and U.K-based med-tech startup 52 North Health raises GBP 1 million in the first round of funding. The round took place on April 28, 2022. Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialisation arm of the University of Cambridge, led the round fo... |
| 21.01.2022 | Google разрабатывает AR-гарнитуру в рамках Project Iris | По информации Verge, Google наращивает работу над гарнитурой дополненной реальности под кодовым названием Project Iris, которую она надеется выпустить в 2024 году. Как и будущие гарнитуры от Meta и Apple, устройство Google использует обраще... |
| 16.12.2021 | Google doubles down on re-entry into consumer AR with renewed focus on hardware, software | The news: Recent job listings at Google reveal the Big Tech company’s plans for a mobile augmented reality (AR) platform intended to reach billions of users.
Why it’s worth watching: After being a pioneer in AR with Google Glass, Google shi... |
| 14.12.2021 | Google разрабатывает «ОС дополненной реальности» для AR-устройства | СМИ выяснили, что Google активно нанимает сотрудников для создания «ОС дополненной реальности» для некоего «инновационного устройства AR».
Сегодня Марк Луковский заявил, что теперь он возглавляет «команду разработчиков операционных систем д... |
| 03.04.2021 | High-Stakes: Amazon Alexa Fund | High-Stakes is a unique series that focuses on dissecting the investments of venture capital and private equity firms to gain insights into the portfolio of companies they’ve invested in, industries they focus on, and their investment proce... |
| 30.07.2020 | Smart Glasses to Become Dumb Glasses a Month After Google Buys Company | Smart glasses made by a company recently acquired by Google will have their smart features disabled after Friday, July 31, the company behind them announced on its website.
“Focals smart glasses and its services are being discontinued and w... |
| 01.07.2020 | Google Glass 3.0? Google acquires smart glasses maker North | reader comments 64 with 46 posters participating
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North's smart glasses. They look... normal?!
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The sides are pretty beefy, though.
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| 30.06.2020 | Google acquires smart glasses company North, whose Focals 2.0 won’t ship | Google confirmed today via blog post that it has acquired Canadian smart glasses company North, which began life as human interface hardware startup Thalmic Labs in 2012. The company didn’t reveal any details about the acquisition, which wa... |
| 30.06.2020 | Google подтвердила покупку канадского производителя «умных» очков North Статьи редакции | North прекратит поддержку своих устройств Focals 1.0 и отменит выпуск Focals 2.0.
Google подтвердила покупку канадского производителя «умных» очков North, но финансовые условия сделки не раскрыла. Команда North присоединится к Google, но ос... |
| 30.06.2020 | Google acquires holographic glasses startup North | Google confirmed today that it has acquired North, a Canadian augmented reality (AR) wearables company backed by Amazon and Intel. Neither company confirmed the value of the acquisition, but the Globe and Mail, which first reported on the d... |
| 29.06.2020 | Alphabet has Reportedly Acquired Canadian AR Smartglasses Company called 'North' which gives us a Peek at their Future
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Search | Google's parent company Alphabet has reportedly acquired a Canadian Company out of Kitchner Ontario called North. A company that makes AR Smartglasses branded "Focals." They have sales outlets in Toronto and Brooklyn NY. While the... |
| 10.12.2019 | Are Focals 2.0 Smart Glasses The Future of Eyewear? | On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone at the Macworld convention. The first iPhone was later released on June 29, 2007. The iPhone is arguably revolutionary and has transformed the way we live today. iPhone form factor i... |
| 10.12.2019 | North pulls Focals smart glasses ahead of ‘sleeker’ upgrade in 2020 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
North, an augmented reality (AR) wearables company backed by Amazon and Intel, has announced that it’s pulling its current Focals smart... |
| 10.11.2019 | AR and VR will make spatial journalism the future of reporting | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Immersive media has the potential to disrupt the journalism landscape in profound new ways. While technical issues still present limits... |
| 10.11.2019 | AR and VR will make spatial journalism the future of reporting | Immersive media has the potential to disrupt the journalism landscape in profound new ways. While technical issues still present limits, ambitious journalists are using all available platforms to get a glimpse of the storytelling media of t... |
| 23.09.2019 | Facebook buys startup building neural monitoring armband | Facebook is buying CTRL-labs, a NY-based startup building an armband that translates movement and the wearer’s neural impulses into digital input signals, a company spokesperson tells TechCrunch.
CTRL-labs raised $67 million according to Cr... |
| 18.09.2019 | North taps the iPhone’s TrueDepth camera to sell its Focals AR glasses online | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
North, a wearables company backed by Amazon and Intel, is making its smart glasses available to buy online for the first time.
Formerly... |
| 18.09.2019 | North taps the iPhone’s TrueDepth camera to sell its Focals AR glasses online | North, a wearables company backed by Amazon and Intel, is making its smart glasses available to buy online for the first time.
Formerly known as Thalmic Labs, the Canadian startup pivoted from gesture- and motion-guided devices to augmented... |
| 27.06.2019 | CTRL-labs scoops up Myo armband tech from North | Before pivoting to smart glasses, Thalmic Labs (now North) tried its best to make its Myo gestural arm band controller the future of user input. Now, another startup is picking up the baton, acquiring patents related to the product and cust... |
| 18.06.2019 | Focals by North review: The future is (almost) here | The concept of an IRL heads-up display has been a part of science fiction since basically the beginning. Big players have tried their hand at it with less than stellar results — most notably Google with Glass, and more recently Intel’s Vaun... |
| 05.02.2019 | A look at what’s ahead for virtual reality in 2019 | Last month, the Balti Virtual team made our annual trek to the massive Consumer Electronics Show (CES), where we saw new products and technologies that will move the virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and extended reality (XR) ind... |
| 18.12.2018 | Meet Paul Bernard, Director of Worldwide Corporate Development of the Alexa Fund at Amazon | Bernard used to lead inorganic growth initiatives for Kindle and Digital Services
Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed! While there are more s... |
| 14.12.2018 | This Week in XR: ODG Asset Sale, Hi Res VR, Brain Waves, And Apps | OneDome's new LMNL immersive museum experience in San Francisco has 14 interactive installations. OneDome |
| 10.12.2018 | CTRL-labs’ first dev kit is a gesture-tracking neural controller | The race to replace the mouse and keyboard has yielded a lot of weird tech, but as various hardware startups try to find the missing link between what we have now and some sort of embedded brain chip, we’re seeing some fascinating solutions... |
| 13.11.2018 | North, formerly Thalmic Labs, opens its first Focals smart glasses retail stores | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
North, the Amazon-backed wearables company formerly known as Thalmic Labs, has opened its first smart glasses stores.
The outlets, whic... |
| 26.10.2018 | Alexa Smartglasses Focals are Here | Alexa Smartglasses Focals are Here
Maddie Iribarren on October 26, 2018 at 9:29 am
Manufactured by North (previously Thalmic Labs), Focals are $999 smartglasses featuring Alexa and Uber app integration. Focals are advertised as ‘everyday’ s... |
| 23.10.2018 | Thalmic Labs rebrands as North, launches $999 Alexa-powered holographic glasses | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Well-financed wearables company Thalmic Labs is no more — the Canadian startup today announced that it will henceforth be known as Nort... |
| 23.10.2018 | Focals AR eyewear look just like regular glasses | Google failed miserably at putting a computer on your face, but that doesn’t mean we’re done seeing companies try to create such devices. And the more technology advances, the more unobtrusive these devices are expected to be. Apple is deve... |
| 23.10.2018 | Thalmic Labs rebrands as North, launches $999 Alexa-powered holographic glasses | Well-financed wearables company Thalmic Labs is no more — the Canadian startup today announced that it will henceforth be known as North. But more important than that, Thalmic Labs North finally unveiled its second product: holographic smar... |
| - | Focals AR eyewear look just like regular glasses | Google failed miserably at putting a computer on your face, but that doesn’t mean we’re done seeing companies try to create such devices. And the more technology advances, the more unobtrusive these devices are expected to be. Apple is deve... |
| - | Google doubles down on re-entry into consumer AR with renewed focus on hardware, software | The news: Recent job listings at Google reveal the Big Tech company’s plans for a mobile augmented reality (AR) platform intended to reach billions of users.
Why it’s worth watching: After being a pioneer in AR with Google Glass, Google shi... |
| - | Google a cumpărat un startup de ochelari smart | Gigantul IT Google a cumpărat un startup care produce ochelari smart, ce integrează o tehnologie de realitate augmentată (AR) pentru a afișa pe lentile mailuri și diferite notificări primite de utilizator pe mobil.
Pe lângă smart glasses, s... |
