Meta Takes Its AR/VR Development To A New Level With The Launch Of A Visual Identification System

One integral aspect of AR development is identifying objects. And with the right system in place, viewers can get the best functional insights through a screen.

Thanks to AR face filters, we’ve already witnessed how social apps can better appreciate this aspect. And remember, the more equipped the system is in terms of comprehending eye placements and movements, the more refined the effect appears on a screen.

With time, the system keeps getting better and it could be seen generating responses to various aspects today, Meta has set out its own model featuring a great dataset to tackle things like this.

As Meta displays in its demo, the launch of a new system called Segment Anything is designed to give both researchers as well as developers the chance to keep things in one frame.

Today we're releasing the Segment Anything Model (SAM) — a step toward the first foundation model for image segmentation.

SAM is capable of one-click segmentation of any object from any photo or video + zero-shot transfer to other segmentation tasks ➡️ https://t.co/qYUoePrWVi pic.twitter.com/zX4Rxb5Yfo

— Meta AI (@MetaAI) April 5, 2023

Facebook’s parent firm is referring to it as their biggest segmentation dataset ever where it can allow a large range of apps to function while fostering more research into models for better computer vision.

This kind of process gives rise to enhance capacity to run AR experiences but the tech giant hopes to introduce something similar for powering both AI as well as VR.

They hope to entail composable designs, prompt engineering, and a bigger variety of apps than systems get trained for specifically. And that could be an integral component in these types of domains like AR/VR, making content, and just the general use of AI-based systems.

There is an entire array of techniques by which datasets could be utilized and that might be the start of new beginnings to help take AR models to new horizons. Similarly, it might help the firm with its smart glasses launch- Project Aria.

Last year in June, we saw Meta delay releases of the AR glasses as a way to cut out costs for the firm. As per the latest report, the company opted to delete the latest addition of AR wearables that would have been launched as early as next year. They hoped to give more priority to the second generation of AR products but as of now, there is yet to be any hint of a release date.

We saw the company unveil its latest series of Ray Ban Stories- which was a smart glasses project put out in 2021. It was a precursor that led to better AR-based wearables that appeared to be getting launched soon but they did not.

Now, it looks like the current economic condition and Meta spending most of its resources on the metaverse may have shifted the ambitious ordeal in another direction.

For now, it’s not quite clear how much the endeavor is put back but as per the new dataset, it appears like there is a lot going on in terms of development regarding this front. And that might see a new form of release of smart glasses in the future.

Now, the company is putting more focus on VR and other investments including generative AI. Therefore, AR might be taking a backseat at Meta for now.

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by Dr. Hura Anwar via Digital Information World