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Audi Releases Quattro Coaster AR App for iOS

by Andrew Fenn

Audi has released a new AR app, a collaboration between Audi Norway and Norwegian creative agency POL Oslo. The Quattro Coaster app is triggered by the company’s TV adverts; when the app detects an …

Tags:Advertising| AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 06

Design Interactive and Atheer Launch Joint AR Solution for Industrial Enterprise

by Andrew Fenn

Design Interactive, a virtual, augmented and mixed reality development firm and Atheer, an AR solutions provider for industrial enterprise, have announced the launch of their first joint product, Augmentor, powered by Atheer AiR Enterprise. …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 06

K’Nex Rollercoaster Construction Toy Set Includes VR Features

by Andrew Fenn

Toy-maker K’Nex has created a building set that not only allows children to build and operate their own toy rollercoaster, but also to ride it in virtual reality, using a VR headset. The BBC …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Toys| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 05

HP Announces Professional Edition of its Windows MR Headset

by Andrew Fenn

HP has showcased the Professional Edition of its Windows Mixed Reality Headset. This headset features 1440 x 1440 resolution per eye and up to a 90Hz refresh rate, six degrees of freedom, no tracking …

Tags:AR/VR| HP Inc| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 05

Intel Planning to Launch AR Smart Glasses This Year

by Andrew Fenn

Intel is reported to be planning to launch an augmented reality smart glass product by the end of the year. Tentatively named Superlite, the device is apparently being manufactured by Quanta Computer. The Verge …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Intel| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 05

Ex-Mozilla WebVR Team Launches VR Web Browser

by Andrew Fenn

Supermedium, the team behind Mozilla’s WebVR standards and the A-Frame open-source VR framework has released a VR web browser. The company has also announced that it’s been chosen to be a part of Y …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 05

Kopin CEO John Fan Reveals “Five Rules For Doing AR Right”

by Andrew Fenn

Electronics manufacturer Kopin has shared a talk from its CEO and Founder, Dr John C.C. Fan, on how to create AR devices that will be embraced by users. Fan’s rules, first revealed earlier this …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Kopin| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

New Lens Enables Display Testing from Same Position as the Human Eye

by Andrew Fenn

Radiant Vision Systems has introduced a new lens for measuring light, colour and image accuracy of near-eye displays within AR and VR headsets. The lens replicates the size and position of the human eye, …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Testing| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Limitless Team Joins Up with Lytro

by Andrew Fenn

VR company, Limitless, has announced that its team will join image capture start-up, Lytro. Lytro specialises in light-field image capture. The two teams will collaborate on a solution for combining light-field and real-time rendering …

Tags:AR/VR| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Qualcomm

Snapdragon 645 Boosts Foveated Rendering

by Bob Raikes

One of the features that is included in the latest Snapdragon 645, from Qualcomm, is Andreno foveation, a set of circuits for optimising gaze recognition and eye tracking. According to Jon Peddie’s TechWatch, the …

Tags:AR/VR| Gaze Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Leap Motion Shows Three New Interactive VR Prototypes

by Andrew Fenn

VR company Leap Motion has released a detailed blog post, demonstrating three new ways of interacting with objects in a virtual reality environment, using information from the worn head-mounted display and an approximation of …

Tags:AR/VR| Gesture Recognition| Leap Motion| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Google Shows off AR 3D Model Viewer Prototype

by Andrew Fenn

Google’s Daydream WebXR team is working on a new 3D model viewer called Article. In a blog post, Reza Ali and Josh Carpenter said: “Article is a 3D model viewer that works for all …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04