UC Berkeley is working on AR that will help us talk to robots

"Open Ark comes from a fondness of Berkeley's tradition of embracing open source projects, from all the back to Unix in the 1970s to more recent deep learning.

"What we want is a fully open research program," [Allen] Yang says. "We give you the source code, we give the source code to other universities and we give the source code to companies." Since corporations are some of the driving entities behind AR and VR [augmented and virtual reality] at the moment, Yang believes open source at the academic level is important to push the technology forward, and growing understanding...."