CS291A – Mixed and Augmented Reality

Exercise 2: XR Product Review

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Tue., Jan. 11: original post

For this assignment, please pick a product, platform, or development the broad area of AR/VR/MR/XR newly presented at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022 or elsewhere over the past few months, and discuss it in a brief (one-page) writeup. The scope for what is a suitable product is purposefully broad: it can be a hardware device, a software platform or package, a new enabling technology, or even a planned design or "leak", and it should be at least able to be used in the overall XR realm (so, for example, new machine learning capabilities for artificial agents would qualify even if there is no immediate AR/VR component). As long as you find a recent (late 2021 or 2022) article from any semi-reputable source :), you're good to go.

Utilize the newly set up Slack channel #mixed-reality-news to share with everyone news aggregators, blogs, magazines, etc. in the XR (MR/AR/VR/Wearables and/or ML and/or general Tech) domain that you find useful to stay up-to-date with your tech news. Review articles on CES 2022 are also very welcome there!

In your writeup, please provide / comment on at least :

"Product" name and producing company / organization.

URL of a media review

Links to images and/or video of the product (potentially from other sites than the review)

Product category (and potentially subcategory) I specifically do not want to limit you by giving you a rigid template here. Please fill in as you see fit, and we will aggregate categories from here.

Similar products

Likelihood of success

Extension possibilities (e.g. 5 years into the future, what might such a product look like?)

 

Submission

Your writeup should be submitted by 12:00pm on Tue Jan 18th on GauchoSpace.