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Samsung and Google working on their own version of smart glasses

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In a strategic alliance, Samsung and Google have announced their collaboration to develop augmented reality (AR) glasseswith the aim of directly competing with Meta and Apple devices in the emerging extended reality (XR) market. This collaboration seeks to accelerate the development of innovative devices that integrate advanced technologies from both companies. Android XR: the new platform for immersive experiences Google has introduced Android XR, an operating system designed specifically for extended reality devices. Developed in collaboration with Samsung, Android XR combines years of investment in artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to deliver more natural and intuitive experiences. This operating system is intended to power a new generation of glasses and visors that integrate these technologies. Samsung is developing the first device that will run Android XRknown internally as Project Moohan. This mixed reality headset is expected to offer high-end features at a significantly lower price than the Apple Vision Pro, which retails for $3,500. This strategy seeks to make XR technology more accessible to a broader audience. Meta and Apple: competitors in the smart glasses market Meta has been at the forefront of the development of smart glassescollaborating with Ray-Ban to launch devices that combine style and functionality. Its smart glasses offer features such as built-in cameras and audio capabilities, allowing users to capture photos and videos, as well as interact with voice assistants. On the other hand, Apple has introduced the Apple Vision Pro, its first spatial computing device that merges digital content with the user’s physical space. This device allows you to work, view content and connect in innovative ways, setting a new standard in the augmented and virtual reality industry. The collaboration between Samsung and Google represents a significant step in the evolution of smart glasses and extended reality devices. By combining their resources and expertise, both companies are well positioned to deliver products that not only compete with those of Meta and Apple, but also drive widespread adoption of this emerging technology. With the launch of Android XR and devices like Project Moohan, the smart glasses market is poised for a significant transformationoffering consumers a broader range of options and immersive experiences that seamlessly integrate the digital and physical worlds. As competition intensifies, we are likely to see rapid advances in technology, design and functionality, which will benefit consumers and accelerate the integration of augmented and virtual reality into everyday life. The alliance between Samsung and Google marks the beginning of a new era in smart glasses technologypromising more advanced devices, accessible and aligned with the needs and expectations of modern users. With the entry of these technology giants into the smart glasses market, the future of augmented and virtual reality looks more promising than ever, offering exciting opportunities for innovations that will change the way we interact with the world around us. Keep reading:• These are the virtual reality glasses that can compete with Apple’s Vision Pro• PS5 VR2: release date, official price and features of the virtual reality glasses• Meta Quest Pro VR: what Meta’s $1,500 virtual reality glasses are like

What is Perplexity, how it works and what the Pro version of this artificial intelligence search engine is like

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Let’s explain to you what is Perplexitythe popular conversational artificial intelligence search engine. It is a tool that seeks to revolutionize the way you find content on the Internet, although currently chatbots such as ChatGPT, Copilot either Gemini They are also capable of using AI for these searches, although they do not specialize in it. We are going to start the article by briefly explaining what exactly Perplexity is and its internal workings, as well as the difference compared to conventional search engines. Then, we will tell you in a simple way what the external functioning of the search engine is like, and the functions they have. We will finish by talking to you about its paid version. What is Perplexity Perplexity is a conversational search engine that works through artificial intelligence. seeks to offer an easier to use alternative to Googleand in which you will not have to go in and out of links to find the answers you are looking for. The main difference with conversational search engines is the way you interact with it. While with Google or Bing you have to type keywords to find the content, with Perplexity you have to ask a question with natural languageand the AI ​​will understand what you are trying to find, and offer you the answer. It is able to do this because inside the search engine we have an artificial intelligence system that, like ChatGPT or others, has been trained to analyze your text and understand natural language with whom you are asking something. With this, when you ask it a question it extracts the meaning of the words and how they work together, and allows more precise searches. On Google, when you want to write more specific things and ask very long questions, the results may be very bad because it tries to find content with all the words. Perplexity understands the concept of what you want to findand with that performs more precise searches. Furthermore, this search engine is respectful of its sources. Unlike ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini, the web pages from which the information was obtained do not seem hidden. Instead, it shows them at the top, and you can click to go directly to specific pages or click on the box where they all are to display them as a list. In this way, Perplexity also allows you verify information more easily. Artificial intelligence systems sometimes make mistakes or hallucinations in their response, and having sources of information nearby will make it easier to verify that what they say is true. How Perplexity works Perplexity’s home page is similar to other artificial intelligence search engines and chats. Upon entering perplexity.aiyou will have a search field where you can write what you want to find. Below you will also have some suggestions for questions in case you don’t know how to start using it. Below the search field you have several options. With the Focus option you can choose where to search of what you want to find. For example, in addition to searching the web, you can search in academic documents, or social networks, you can search videosand even receive better answers to writing or mathematical problems. You will also have options to upload a PDF file and perform internal searches, or to activate Pro mode, which is the paid version of Perplexity. For these two functions you will first have to create an account, although not necessary for simple searcheswhich you can do without a user account. When you ask a question, Perplexity will compose an answer based on the information it has found on the Internet. But on top of this answer you have a Sources section with the pages Where did you get the information from? On the right, you can also display images or videos, to see those that are related to the search you have performed. In the section of Sources you have four paintings. The first three are links that take you directly to the pages from which the most information has been obtained, and the fourth allows you open a list with all sources that you have used and the articles from which the information with which you have generated the response came. This way, you can enter the one you want just as you do with Google. For some questions you will be answered with graphics or images, especially for quick ones that you can ask, such as what the weather is like today or tomorrow in a certain city. Perplexity vs Perplexity Pro Perplexity has a paid version called Perplexity Pro. In exchange for a monthly payment of 20 euros, you will have advanced functions, such as choose the AI ​​model you want to usebeing able to choose, in addition to their own, other much more famous ones. This is the table with the differences: Perplexity perplexity pro queries Fast and unlimited Fast and unlimited Pro consultations 3 a day 300+ a day AI models Standard Perplexity Standard Perplexity GPT-4o Claude-3 Sonar Large (Llama 3.3) and more… Profile You can create one to customize responses, but it’s optional. You need to create one before subscribing to the pro. Upload and analyze files Only with account Limited Unlimited View responses No Yes, using Playground AI, DALL-E, SDXL and more API Credits No 5$/month As you can see, the main difference is that you can make daily Pro queries with which to obtain better results, and you can compose the answers with other artificial intelligence models like GPT-4o and others. Thus, you do not depend on the advances of the Perplexity model, and you can use other more advanced ones. There are also advantages when it comes to uploading files and analyzing them, which is an unlimited function, and composing images to visualize the responses, something that in the Pro version you can do… and using different image-generating AI models. In Xataka Basics | News of the ChatGPT search engine in December 2024: everything announced by … Read more

Steven Soderbergh: ‘I am the cockroach of this industry. I can survive any version of it’

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NEW YORK — Steven Soderbergh is not only the director and cinematographer of his latest film. In some ways, he is also its central character. “Presence” is filmed entirely from the point of view of a ghost inside a house that a family has just moved into. Soderbergh, who acts as his own cinematographer under the pseudonym Peter Andrews (his father’s name), essentially plays the presence, a floating point of view that watches as the violence that killed the mysterious ghost threatens to repeat itself. For the prolific Soderbergh, the film, which opens in theaters Friday, was a unique challenge. She shot “Presence” with a small digital camera while wearing slippers to soften her steps. The 62-year-old filmmaker chatted in a recent interview in Manhattan, in the midst of post-production on his next film (“Black Bag,” a thriller that Focus Features will release on March 14), and the start of production in a few weeks his next project, a romantic comedy that he says “feels like a George Cukor movie.” Soderbergh, whose films include “Out of Sight,” the “Ocean’s 11” films, “Magic Mike” and “Erin Brockovich,” tends to do a lot in small windows. of time. “Presence” took 11 days to film. That skill has made Soderbergh one of the most respected Hollywood evaluators in the film business. In a wide-ranging conversation, he discussed why he thinks streaming is the most destructive force cinema has ever faced and why he is “the cockroach of this industry.” Steven Soderbergh attends the premiere of “Presence” at AMC Lincoln Square on Thursday, January 16, 2025 in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) You use pseudonyms for yourself as director of photography and editor. Were you tempted to credit yourself as an actor for “Presence”?SODERBERGH: No, but what I did is subtle. For the first and only time Peter Andrews has a camera operator credit. That’s not a credit I usually take because I don’t need it and I typically have another operator working with me. But I felt like this was training. It was complicated, but really fun. It was another level of performance anxiety because I ruined more takes than anyone else in the movie by a major factor. I was the one saying, “Cut. I ruined it. “We have to start over.” You made this quickly and cheaply, and then sold it to a distributor. Was working outside the system attractive to you?The beauty of projects on this scale is that I can do them without having to talk to anyone. It’s not because I don’t want comments. It’s because it’s just the trusted group and none of the psychic space is occupied by things that have nothing to do with what you’re going to film. I went from that to a more traditional project where a lot of psychic space is consumed in the process of having a studio finance your film. I like these people, it’s just that there are a lot of lawyers. Many lawyers. You’ve called streaming the most destructive force in the history of cinema. What irritates you the most about it?It removes a key reference point for an artist. It’s useful to know how something is working, or how it worked. You need to know that to gauge whether you achieved what you wanted to achieve, whether you can work at a certain level. That’s one of the most confusing things about it, the black box of it. Aside from the economic invisibility of what’s going on there — the fact that we can’t really look under the hood of how these streaming companies operate economically — there’s another kind of guardrail that’s missing that I find really useful. At the end of the day, at least, I want to know. The market will tell you how you are doing. I want to know that so I can adjust or go in another direction. Being irrelevant is not very attractive. What’s the overlap between what people seem to be responding to and what I like? Because I don’t want to do these things and have no one see them. I’ve had enough people say, “Oh, that came out?” It is a public art form. West Mulholland, from left, Callina Liang, Steven Soderbergh and Eddy Maday attend the premiere of “Presence” at AMC Lincoln Square on Thursday, January 16, 2025 in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) How do you suspect the audience is changing?The good news is, if you talk to Focus Features and Neon and A24, young people are going to the movies. This is the generation of (the social network of movie buffs) Letterboxd. That’s fantastic. I hope that spreads outside of the United States. They are movie buffs and expect something unique. They want the signature, they want the seal of a filmmaker. And that is becoming a real business. One of the things, I think, that we all need to do, but especially people who cover the industry, is to stop using the studio metric for what is a success. That is not a template that you should apply to everything. Do you ever regret that the movies that made you want to be a filmmaker like “All the President’s Men” and “Chinatown” occupied a different place in the culture than movies today?There was a period of about 10 to 14 years where the best movies of the year were also the most popular movies of the year. That’s not necessarily true today. You can pick one of the movies that’s in the competition this year and say: That’s a movie from the ’70s. It’s just as good and interesting as one of those. But it’s not going to do the business that one of those would have done. It is the artist’s job to adapt. When you’re trying to control what people want to see, you’re in a place like, “If I really wish hard, it won’t rain.” The weather is the weather. To some degree, the audience is a weather system. Fortunately, … Read more

Gemini becomes the definitive AI assistant with its new version

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Gemini has had an important presence during the launch of the new Samsung Galaxy S25, S25+ and S25 Ultra. Google took the opportunity to announce several very interesting new features that make it the definitive virtual assistant. Although Gemini is now the native assistant of the Galaxy S25, its new features will not be exclusive to said phones. Some of these functions will be launched first on Samsung smartphones and the most modern Pixels, while others will immediately arrive on other Android phones, the iPhone and the web version of the tool powered by artificial intelligence. Gemini’s first big addition is the ability to perform several actions at the same time in different applications. This means you can ask the AI ​​to find information about a particular place on Google Maps—a restaurant or hotel, for example—and write a summary with details and essential information to send through the Messages app. In this way, Gemini can carry out more than one activity from a single prompt or request. This function can be used from today both in the assistant applications for iOS and Android, as well as in the web version. Likewise, Google has announced the implementation of new extensions that allow its artificial intelligence to connect and interact with Samsung apps, such as calendar, notes and reminders. Gemini Live goes multimodal, and Circle to Search adds improvements Another notable feature that was announced at the Samsung event is the introduction of multimodality in Gemini Live. From now on, the conversational assistant Google allows users to include links to YouTube videos, as well as photos and files, in chat. According to Mountain View, the goal is for the tool to better understand the context of the queries and offer more personalized responses. Likewise, the Californians plan to add more functions inherited from Gemini to Gemini. Project Astrathe technology that in the future will promote mixed reality helmets and augmented reality glasses with Android XR. Among them, the option to share screen and live video transmission. Both the Gemini Live improvements and the upcoming Project Astra-based tools will arrive first on the Galaxy S25 and Pixel 9. In addition to Gemini, Circle to Search (Circle to search) will be incorporating new capabilities. Among them, the expanded AI summarieswhich will allow you to find out more information about anything that appears on your screen by drawing a circle around it. This tool will be launched only in English at first, and in those countries where it already AI works Overview that Google shows on its results page. But that’s not all, because Circle to Search now too detects phone numbers, email addresses and more important data on the screen. This allows you to interact with this information quickly and with a single touch, displaying quick icons to make calls or write emails, among other options.

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