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New AR App Allows Users To Try On Glasses Before You Buy Them

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The hassles of purchasing new specs can leave many visually-impaired users frustrated with the entire process. Often times, glasses wearers outgrow the style or simply don’t feel comfortable with the limited selection many retailers provide.

However, Warby Parker, the online retailer of prescription glasses, has introduced a brand-new app to help negate some of these frustrations when picking up a new pair of lenses.

Warby Parker has recently specialized in bringing easier methods of picking out your favorite pair of glasses. While most brick-and-mortar retailers offer a wide selection of specs to choose from, there’s only so much room to showcase the massive selection of stylish glasses. What Warby Parker accomplishes allows glasses wearers to try up to five pairs of glasses before making the commitment of shelling out your hard-earned cash towards them.

With the success of the online lens retailer striking a chord with consumers everywhere, they’re adding more useful life hacks to their name. So, what if you could see how stylish you look in the comfort of your own home right away, rather than waiting for specific pairs to be shipped to your house and limited to only five pairs for every purchase?

Using AR (augmented reality) technology, the new app aptly titled ‘Virtual Try-On’ found on the Warby Parker app page for the iPhone X models allows users to virtually try on new glasses and see which style best suits their taste. The face scanning technology captures the users facial recognition and plants a variety of virtual lenses on the screen, appropriately placed where you’d normally wear your new spectacles.

Of course, this new app can only ease the pain of deciding which style to choose from. The comfort level can only be determined when physically wearing the glasses, the AR app is meant for visual purposes only. However, this new tech, which is currently available via the Warby Parker iPhone app, does ease a lot of future headaches when selecting a new pair of glasses.

The future of AR technology continues to grow and allows more quality of life scenarios, such as the Warby Parker app. Other mediums in the tech industry have utilized AR with success, including 2016’s wildly popular video game phenomenon Pokemon GO and plenty of face-chatting software, such as Facetime.

As an iPhone X exclusive app, the AR tech takes advantage of the phone’s TrueDepth camera which allows for users to incorporate facial recognition, rather than previous model’s fingerprint sensor. The new tech found in the TrueDepth hardware will only be utilized more in the future, introducing society to a plethora of new ideas to make life easier all around.

The Warby Parker app is available at the Apple iTunes Store, and the new AR feature is available now.The facial recognition app uses the AR technology in order to adhere whichever style of glasses to the face that appears on the TrueDepth front camera equipped on the iPhone X, XR and XS models. The virtual styling option from Warby Parker could just be the beginning of where the augmented reality tech can steer us in the future.

 

Source: Warby Parker

Writer and avid gamer, Chris will put together an article to keep the reader engaged, informed and moderately happy for a solid 4 minutes. That my friend, is no easy feat.

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Google appeared as a car manufacturer

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Google has recently used CES as a platform to present its philosophy of “Better Together,” the notion that all devices should get along with one another. Typically, this entails making announcements regarding new Cast compatibility and features like Fast Pair. The business revealed that it is collaborating with Spotify to incorporate the Connect streaming capability into the Android UI at CES 2023. Additionally, it showed a sneak peek at an audio handoff tool that would recommend various devices to shift your music to based on your preferences and location.

However, CES is a significant vehicle event, and Google also sells items for cars. Additionally, it said today that the Polestar 3 would receive its higher-resolution maps, and it debuted the most recent Android Auto user interface for the first time since it was revealed at I/O 2022.

Two vehicles, a Volvo EX90 with Google preinstalled and a BMW i7 with the new Android Auto experience, were at the Google stand in the trailer lot of the Las Vegas Convention Center. We had never seen the Volvo before, and we’ll be posting a separate hands-on on that experience shortly. The new Android Auto is the main topic of this article and video.

The redesigned interface will support larger screen sizes and have a split screen layout, as we discovered at I/O. Google has eliminated the status bar and inserted a row of shortcut keys below it, along with some indication icons in a small area to the top left. When we were in the car, the Spotify app was located on the left panel, and we could access a list of suggested playlists by swiping in from the right side.

Alerts that you won’t have time to respond to while driving are likewise stored in this left pane. For instance, you can swipe right on a notification to move it to the dock, where it will wait until you’re ready to deal with it.

Check out the video up top for more of our experience with the updated Android Auto in the BMW i7! And be sure to pay attention this week as there will be a ton of news at CES 2023.

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Apple Mini-LED Display Supplier Reports Decreasing Demand As Rumors Suggest a Switch to OLED in the Next Few Years

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One of Apple’s top mini-LED suppliers claims that while the company plans to switch to OLED displays for its iPad and MacBook line in the upcoming years, demand for displays in consumer products is declining while demand for mini-LED in other applications is increasing.

According to a recent report from DigiTimes, the demand for mini-LED displays for consumer electronics devices is declining, but it is anticipated that demand for mini-LED displays for dashboards and vehicle displays will increase in 2023. Epistar, which has been supplying mini-LED displays to Apple for some time, is one company that has made this claim.

The creation of particular kinds of OLED screens that Apple intends to utilize in next iPad Pro models, according to a report published last week, is now Samsung’s top priority. The first iPad Pro with an OLED panel, which Apple is rumored to introduce in 2024, has prompted mini-LED vendors to consider alternate applications for their screens, according to DigiTimes.

In 2024, Apple is also expected to release a 13-inch MacBook Air with an OLED display in addition to an OLED iPad Pro. According to reputable display analyst Ross Young, Apple is exploring adopting an OLED panel in a planned update to the iPhone SE but is torn between employing an LCD or OLED display.

 

 

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Apple Provides 10 Practical iPhone Tricks

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In an effort to assist customers get the most out of their devices and teach new iPhone users some features and tips they may not have previously known about, Apple recently provided ten helpful tips and techniques for iPhone users.

Apple revealed ten tips and techniques for the new features in iOS 16 in a video on its Apple Support channel, including the ability to choose and lift subjects out of images and the newly revamped and customisable Lock Screen. As people get used to their new iPhones, the short film, which is barely six minutes long, was posted on Christmas Day.

  1. If you tap and hold on a subject inside of a photo in the Photos app on ‌iOS 16‌, you can lift the subject from the photo and place it into another app.
  2. The new Lock Screen on ‌iOS 16‌ allows users to customize different elements, including the color and style of the time and date, add widgets, and more.
  3. Within Settings -> Wi-Fi, you can select a saved Wi-Fi access point to discover and copy and paste its password.
  4. If you often write the same thing time and time again, such as your email or address, you can create a text replacement within Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Text Replacement.
  5. If you’re running low on battery or want to save some battery life when you won’t have access to a charger, you can add the Low Power Mode toggle to Control Center for easy access. Head into Settings -> Control Center and add it to the list of Included Controls.
  6. If you want to share or move multiple photos into another app, simply tap and hold on a photo, move it away, and proceed to tap on the other photos. You’ll then be able to drag and drop all of the photos into other apps or places in iOS.
  7. If you want to quickly open the camera, tap and hold on the Camera shortcut in the bottom right-hand corner of your ‌iPhone‌’s Lock Screen.
  8. With iOS 15 and later, you can now use Live Text to automatically translate text in the camera app or inside of a photo. In the camera app, point the camera to some text and tap on the Live Text that appears in the right-hand corner, then select translate in the options shown. This can also work for photos already taken in the ‌Photos‌ app.
  9. Using the Notes app, you can easily scan a piece of paper and create a digital copy of it. The Notes app will automatically properly crop and edit the image so the document appears legible with no glare.
  10. If you’re curious about what your first photo is in your photo library, you can easily discover it with one tap. In the ‌Photos‌ app, simply tap on the top edge of your ‌iPhone‌ to jump to the first photo in any specific library, album, or search result.

 

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