The drawing app Pencil is set to launch in Meta's App Lab for Quest 3 in the coming weeks. The app promises step-by-step instructions for learning to draw in mixed reality.
A Quest 3 controller is used as a weight and tracking aid to overlay instructions onto a physical paper on which you draw with a conventional pencil.
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https://mixed-news.com/en/the-ingenious-mixed-reality-app-pencil-is-coming-soon-to-meta-quest-3/
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have made headlines in recent months, though often for all the wrong reasons. Cruise, Waymo, and Tesla are all under U.S. federal investigation for a variety of accidents, some of which caused serious injury or death. A new paper published in Nature puts numbers to the problem.
Its authors analyzed over 37,000 accidents involving autonomous and human-driven vehicles to gauge risk across several accident scenarios. The paper reports AVs were generally less prone to accidents than those driven by humans, but significantly under-performed humans in some situations.
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https://spectrum.ieee.org/autonomous-vehicles-great-at-straights
A surgical team in the UK recently used Apple’s Vision Pro to help with a medical procedure. It wasn’t a surgeon who used the headset, but the lead scrub nurse at the Cromwell Hospital in London.
An app superimposed virtual screens in front of vital information. The headset was used to help her prepare, keep track of the surgery, and choose which tools to hand to the surgeon.
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