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VR And AR Markets to Grow Says CSS

by Bob Raikes

Market researcher, CCS, predicts that the sales of VR headsets will reach 16.5 million this year, valued at over $500 million, with sales growing to 72 million by 2020. That number includes smartphone VR …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 34

Questions Raised About Pokemon Go’s Prospects

by Tom Allen

There have been reports that, although it remains popular, Pokemon Go‘s user base is declining sharply. No official figures are available, but an independent report using data compiled by Axiom Capital Management shows that …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Apps| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 33

Vuzix iWear Takes Leap Forward with the Addition of SteamVR to its Supported Game Ecosystem

by Isaac Oburu

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies and products for the consumer and enterprise markets, is pleased to announce that it has completed the integration …

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So AR/VR Will be Big – What Does That Mean for the Display Industry?

by Norbert Hildebrand

Every day we hear from another market research firm how AR/VR will be big business. The latest announcement from IDC is making AR/VR a $162 billion industry by 2020. This means that the current …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 33

AR/VR Will Grow at More Than a 180% CAGR

by Tom Allen

IDC projects worldwide revenues from augmented (AR) and virtual (VR) reality growing from $5.2 billion this year to more than $162 billion in 2020. This represents a CAGR of 181.3% over the five-year period. …

PTC Releases Major Update to Vuforia – World’s Leading Platform for Augmented Reality Development

by Isaac Oburu

PTC today announced availability of Vuforia™ 6, the newest version of its award-winning platform for augmented reality (AR) development. Vuforia 6 introduces the VuMark™, a customizable visual code that enables AR experiences to be …

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Vuforia Upgraded to V6

by Isaac Oburu

PTC has announced that the newest version of its AR platform, Vuforia 6, is available. Vuforia 6 is the first software with VuMark, which makes it possible to attach AR to any product or …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Software| Vol 23 - Issue 32

DIGILITY16 to be Held in Germany

by Isaac Oburu

Digility, an event focusing on VR, AR, wearable computing, hardware and software, 360° imaging and artificial intelligence, will take place from 22-23 September 2016 in Cologne, Germany. It will run alongside the Photokina show. …

Is Apple Following in the Footsteps of Sony?

by Norbert Hildebrand

Many years ago a Japanese company named Sony set out to revolutionize the world with a new take on consumer electronics products. They invented new product categories and created stellar devices that to this …

Skully Shuts Down Over ‘Personal Piggybank’ Allegations

by Tom Allen

Skully was a crowd-funded company that had planned to produce augmented reality motorcycle helmets. Although its campaign was funded in 2014, the firm has told backers that it’s closing down, because it ran out …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 31

Pokemon Comes to Ora-2

by Tom Allen

Optinvent, a French company that we have been following since 2013, has produced the second generation of its Ora smart glasses. The Ora-2 is now in production, which will be ramped over the next …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| France| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 31

MIT Research Provides Basis for Plausible Manipulation of Objects in Video

by Norbert Hildebrand

When we see any movie today we see a wide array of special effects that are computer generated. These computer generated images are than combined with footage of real actors to create the final …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Visual Computing| Vol 23 - Issue 31