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Michelin-Starred Restaurant Launches AR Cocktails

by Alan Spencer

The Michelin-starred London restaurant and bar, City Social, is to launch this month, ‘Mirage’, claimed as the world’s first AR cocktail menu. Mirage, a purpose-built app, took 18 months to develop and was created …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Wien Energie Using A/R for Maintenance

by Bob Raikes

Wien Energie, of Vienna, Austria, is working with ViewAR and using the Microsoft Hololens to study how real time plant data could be useful for repair technicians. The project uses indoor navigation to help …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 16

VR @ SXSWedu: Reality or Hype?

by Len Scrogan

With the AR/MR/VR market expected to hit $150 billion by 2020, schools, colleges and universities are now getting the hard sell on making an investment in the “next big thing.” In a well-attended SXSWedu …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Facebook Looks at Snapchat for AR Ideas

by Norbert Hildebrand

During the Facebook’s F8 developers conference Mark Zuckerberg announced the closed beta release of an AR platform that seems to be modeled on the Snapchat augmented reality app, ‘Lenses’. Facebook admits that it wrongly …

Avegant Wins More Funding

by Bob Raikes

Avegant, which has so far focused on headsets for viewing video, has raised $13.7m in additional funding to further develop its ‘light field’ displays. The FT reports that Avegant has now raised around $50 …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 15

AMD Acquires Nitero for Wireless VR/AR Technology

by Alan Spencer

California-based semiconductor company, AMD, has acquired intellectual property and key engineering talent from Texas-based Nitero. The move is to enable AMD ot produce the next generations of wireless VR and AR headsets. Nitero can …

VR First Programme Developing

by Bob Raikes

We reported on the VR First initiative at IFA last year. The organisation said that it now has 26 labs operating in the US, Europe, Asia and Oceania and will bring the number up …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 15

AREA Defines Hardware and Software Requirements for AR

by Norbert Hildebrand

AREA (Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance) has published a first draft of hardware and software requirements for augmented reality headsets for use in professional environments. The goal of these ‘functional requirements’ is to help …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 14

ODG Announces Hazardous Location Certified Smartglasses

by Norbert Hildebrand

The Osterhout Design Group announced a new augmented reality headset that allows the user to work in ‘extreme environments’. You can think of it as a ruggedized version of the well known R7 headset. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Diota Developing Projection AR System

by Bob Raikes

We reported on Diota at last year’s Laval event and the progress is clear from last year’s ‘sheet metal prototype’ to something that looks much more like a finished product this time. (Diota Offers …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Laval Virtual 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Epson Adds Moverio Helmet

by Bob Raikes

We were impressed when we saw the first prototypes of the Epson Moverio 2200 headsets at MWC last year. The headset is based on an OLED microdisplay that is made in-house by Epson. (Epson …

Laval Virtual 2017 Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

3DRudder’s Motion controller. Image:Meko 3D Rudder has developed a foot pad that can be used to control movement in VR games. Tipping the board moves in the appropriate direction and the board can also …