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This year video chat took a leap forward with Facebook Messenger recording 17 billion realtime video chats - two times as many video chat sessions in 2017 compared to 2016, the company said. "The art of conversation has evolved, and we're no longer limited by just text. Just think about it, now you can group video chat with masks, choose from thousands of emojis or GIFs to add more color to your messages, and immediately capture and share photos, even when you're already in a conversation," Sean Kelly, Product Management Director, Messenger, wrote in a blog post late Wednesday. People video chatted across each other all around the world - including Antarctica. Kelly said that the experience is the same whether a user is on Android or iOS and the company introduced a few Augmented Reality features like masks, filters, and reactions in June to make video chats more fun and expressive. Apart from these, GIFs, videos, group conversations or group video chats...

Twitter today is  announcing  the launch of a new feature that will allow people to more easily post tweetstorms – that is, those series of connected tweets that have grown to become a popular workaround for getting past Twitter’s character count limitation in order to share longer thoughts. The company confirmed last month it was testing the feature – which it’s now calling “threads” – across its iOS and Android apps. The tweetstorm format has been used for a long time on Twitter, initially by a small number of early adopters, including a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen, who would often pen the equivalent of blog posts using tweets. The need for tweetstorms became more pressing over the years, as users continually bumped up against Twitter’s 140 character count limit – a restriction Twitter recently doubled, ahead of today’s launch. Users have adopted the tweetstorm for a number of reasons – to tell personal, suspenseful or funny stories ...

Pic1 Pic2 Pic3 Pic4 x Setup: Update the AR Stickers and ARCore apps, then launch AR Stickers from the camera app. x R2-D2 is in my house! The augmented reality framework does a good job of making him stick to the floor. x Besides Star Wars, there's floating text, Stranger Things characters, and food. x Occlusion isn't supported. Here, my hand should be blocking Artoo, but ARCore doesn't support covering the rendered features. Lighting works great—you can see the light from BB-8's photoreceptor better in the dark. Google's push to bring Augmented Reality to the masses hit a big milestone today with the launch of the "AR Stickers" app. Google has been doing Augmented Reality for some time now with the hardware-packed Project Tango devices, but AR Stickers is the first app in Google's  new AR strategy, which revolves around ARCore. ARCore is a reworked augmented reality framework that can do many of...

Apple spokesman declined to say how many customers had purchased the app or if Apple would provide refunds. iPhone maker Apple Inc said on Monday that it had removed a paid iOS application from its App Store after MyEtherWallet, a free service for storing digital currencies, complained that the program was improperly using its name. “This is NOT US,” MyEtherWallet said on Sunday from its official Twitter account. The statement was a response to a tweet by someone identified as @ChrisLundkvist, who posted an image of the $4.99 app, dubbed MyEtherWallet, showing it was the third-most popular finance app in Apple’s App Store. Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said in an email that the MyEtherWallet app had been removed from the App Store. He declined to say how many customers had purchased the app or if Apple would provide refunds. Interest in crypto-currencies has climbed in recent weeks as the bitcoin has repeatedly hit new highs, bringing its year-to-date return to ...

This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices. Description Mozilla’s WebXR Viewer is an augmented reality (AR) viewer that lets you create and run AR experiences built with web technologies and ARKit. WebXR is a proposed cross-platform Web API for AR and VR. But, proposals cannot become specifications without developer and consumer feedback, so we are releasing the WebXR Viewer to give web developers a chance to experiment with AR, and provide input to the WebXR community as they develop AR support in the WebXR specification. In this initial release, you can: - Navigate to websites written using a software implementation of WebXR, available at http://github.com/mozilla/webxr-polyfill. - Record and share videos taken of your web content in the real world. To learn more about the WebXR Viewer and other ways Mozilla is working with the web community to bring augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality to the web, visit techbossans.blogspo...

Build immersive virtual worlds with a few lines of code. Reach an audience of millions using open standards. Craft virtual reality (VR) experiences for mobile devices everywhere. Mozilla leads VR technologies and standards on the web. WebVR API WebVR is an open-source JavaScript API for creating VR experiences in browsers and headsets. The  WebVR API  works in concert with WebGL, WebAudio and the Gamepad APIs to provide direct access to the hardware platform. Browser support and VR devices The WebVR API is supported in  Firefox  and Microsoft Edge, as well as Google  Chrome 56+ for Android  under a developer preview program. There are also experimental builds of Chromium for Windows and  Samsung Internet Browser  for Gear VR. Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets will support WebVR content, and Google Cardboard has been tested with mobile versions of Safari, Firefox and Chrome. Is it a standard? It will be. WebVR is an open collaboration...

Whatever advances Apple makes in the iPhones it releases in 2018, it looks like one key area will be in the performance of the battery. Latest reports suggest that Apple is working on replacing the current two-cell design with an improved single-cell design… as long as the engineers can work it into an L-shape. The report comes from noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities (reports Mikey Campbell and others). By integrating the current two cell structure into a single L-shaped cell there will be more internal volume to store the energy, assuming the battery technology can be mangled into the required physical space. This would not be the first time that Apple has created an irregular shape to maximise battery life in a product - the stepped battery construction in the 2015 MacBook machines filled an awkward space in such a way that more power could be stored inside the laptop chassis. From the surface this new L-battery will use a similar technique to provide more ...