Nano Banana Ai, REC Room Half of Staff, Adobe Okes Aero, Red 6 Land in Whale

Snap explores external investments in order to lead to glasses to the order on the market next year. The company has already invested three billion dollars in the last decade, but its core business of social media is still unprofitable, encouraging executive director Evan Spiegel to say that he is now “ready to claim help.” Snap even talked about the “nuclear option” to predict its AR unit in a special company, although it is challenges given the joint technical infrastructure. For now, the company claims that this does not strictly require external financial financing, but it assesses the most effective way to use their long-term AR investments.

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Against the bosses

The social room for the social VR platform has passed around half of its staff, reducing slightly more than 100 employees. The decision arises from the huge influx of low quality content, especially from mobile and cantilever creators who set a significant review and burden of infrastructure in the team. The co-founder brown and Nick Fajt emphasized that this is the restructuring of the “business need”, not a reflection of employee performance. The affected staff will get three months of salaries, six months of health benefits and can keep their work computers.

“Nano Banana” is a vimsic internal code name for Google’s Model Production and Editing Figure AI, Officially launched as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image. Google Deepmind develops, Nano Banana integrates into App Gemini (and is available via Gemini API, Google Ai Studio and Vertek AI). It will be exempted to maintain the consistency of character to ensure that people, pets and objects keep their appearance over consecutive offices. Users can fulfill the complex, multiple steps, such as changing clothes, mix more images or re-scenes, all through natural languages. The outputs include visible watermark and an invisible synthide watermark for clearly indicate the AI ​​generated content.

Adobe confirmed that it would stop its accumulated tool for the design of reality, Adobe Aero 6. November 2025, on all platforms. Completely removing Adobe’s server data is scheduled for 16. December 2025. years. At the same time, Adobe quietly increased its generative AI capabilities by integrating Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash image model in Adobe Firefly and Adobe Express. This improvement allows users to generate stylized graphics, and then animate, changedize, inscribe and deploy them.

Red 6 lands in the whale of AR are dealing with AR with US Air Force. Dod was awarded a contract on Red 6 to integrate his aromatic tactical system in the air (ATARS) in F-16 fighters in the next 12-18 months. Atars is an AR system on a helmet that projects realistic planes, rockets and friendly wings in the pilot field of views while flying. This allows flight, uniform and scalable training against virtual threats without relying on the right aircraft “red air”, reducing costs and improving readiness. The program follows a previously distributing atar on platforms such as T-38, MC-130 and RAF’s Hawk T-2.

Samsung will present the Moohan project, his first KSR (extended reality) headphones, on a galaxy unpacked event in South Korea 29. September 2025. years With the sale of the public 13. October in Korea, followed by global rollover. KULCOMM’S SNAPDRAGON XR2 + GEN 2 Chip Authorization of the headset, which looks extraordinary as Vision Pro, with 16 GB of RAM and built-in twins AI, drives Android XR. Price estimates range from $ 1,800 to $ 2,900, setting it under Apple Vision Pro, but still premium. As for me, the only thing here is interesting is Android XR OS with Google. Samsung and Apple are fighting the last war completely occluded mixed reality (camera, although systems) headphones, so they both lose, but there are many more rounds to be in this match.

The Chinese Ar Startup Rokid has launched a Kickstarter campaign for his new smart cups with green monochrome, generating over $ 500,000 within the first 24 hours. Prices at $ 479 (Early bird tier) or $ 599 Supports AI Voicing Query via Chatggpt, music playback, calls, and photo / video recording, navigation, telepromplate functionality and real-time translation. Last week, HTC presented AI-Makeding Viva Eagle, an elegant model of smart glasses weighing below 49 g and at approximately $ 520. The target is a market leader in audio smart glasses with bans and oaks of $ 399 that sell over 3 m units in the last two years.

Meta’s Horizon Worlds will soon support fully embodied AI NPCs having the latest Llama LLMEnabling creators to set interactive characters that offer unrescrinene, dynamic conversations layered with a dialogue and select AI voices. Earlier limited to non-adalated background agents, these new NPC can adapt names, backgrounds, personality and dialogs style, ideally as well as household gouges, guides, shops or lore. Later this year, the target will expand its abilities to activate work actions, making NPC active participants in the game. Further details are expected at the Meta Connect developer conference, from 17. September.

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