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It has essentially nothing to do with AI, they seem to have thrown that in for bonus PR points. Sure, ML is plenty involved behind the scenes for both actual us

It has essentially nothing to do with AI, they seem to have thrown that in for bonus PR points. Sure, ML is plenty involved behind the scenes for both actual use cases (AR and VR) but it's not relevant and not what people think of when they read AI. Reading the dev blog or the actual documentation was more informative to me: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/12/introducing-android-xr-sdk-developer-preview.html https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/12/introducin... https://developer.android.com/develop/xr https://developer.android.com/develop/xr

msabalau 2y ago
Alternatively, maybe Alphabet actually came to understand that while it would have been a pointless waste of time to flush money away on AR and VR in the manner of Apple and Meta, AI use cases and work on stuff like like Gemini streaming and Project Astra (both prominently highlighted yesterday) convinced them that AR might actually have some general use in the future. So they decided to put some more effort and attention behind this rather than, say, shutting it down to invest more in AI, or simply keeping it on a back burner as tech portfolio hedge. Sometimes corporate communications actually contain a bit of meaning, as shocking as that might seem.