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by Bob Raikes
Microsoft has released more about the VR headsets from Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo et al at the WinHec event in Shenzen and it looks as they will sell from $300. The company has confirmed …
Tags:AR/VR| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 49
by Bob Raikes
Leap Motion, which develops gesture and hand-tracking technology for A/R and V/R has released its Leap Motion Mobile Platform, a software and hardware combination that is said to be capable of a 10 fold …
Tags:AR/VR| Gesture Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 49
by Bob Raikes
Microsoft has said that it is finalising the development kits for the Windows Holographic platform (and will be released at the Games Developers’ Conference in March.
Tags:AR/VR| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 49
by Bob Raikes
We’ve talked a lot about the use of augmented reality and New Scientist has reported that Dutch police are using the technology to solve crimes. A trial system is being used that streams video …
Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 49
by Bob Raikes
The Blippar augmented reality app has been updated to allow the recognition of faces as well as objects. The company has created a database of 70,000 ‘public figures’ and users will be able to …
Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| face recognition| | Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 48
by Bob Raikes
The Khronos Group (a not for profit consortium based in Beaverton, Oregon) which has done a lot to standardise APIS in the 3D world, has now introduced an initiative to standardise interfaces for VR. …
Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 48
by Yvette Raikes
Oculus has just launched its touch controllers, and pre-orders will get 8 free titles. The company has released a list of 53 titles which are available here.
Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 48
by Bob Raikes
Road to VR and Greenlight Insights have put out a new version of their VR industry report that identifies that investments this year in VR have been good, with MindMaze ($100 million) and NextVR …
Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 48
by Bob Raikes
Amazon web services (AWS) is working with NGCodec to use the firm’s FPGA-based H.265/HEVC video codec which can support high performance encoding of UltraHD with low latency for AR and VR applications. By running …
Tags:AR/VR| Codecs| FPGAs| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 48
by Bob Raikes
The latest version of the Unity3D game engine, V5.5 has a number of new features, including full support for the Microsoft Holographic technology. The experience of a Hololens can be viewed in the Unity …
Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 47
by Bob Raikes
One of the largest UK owner of shopping centres, British Land, has launched an A/R app for 21 local and regional locations. There is an app-based game for children is intended to take families …
Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Retail| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 47
by Bob Raikes
Microsoft’s minimum specifications for the Windows Holographic platform have been spotted by “The Verge”, which noted a dialogue when it did some testing. The dialogue indicated that memory should be 4.0GB, USB 3.0 is …
Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 47
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