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AR Needs Touch and Short Sessions.

by Bob Raikes

The next panel was on Augmented Reality. Dale Herigstad is CEO of SeeSpace and Clemens Conrad is CEO of Vectorform. Iljaitcsch stayed from the previous panel. Herigstad said that his company, which we reported …

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UNC Develops AR-Based Encryption

by Norbert Hildebrand

The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill presented a new method of cryptography based on augmented reality. The system is based on visual cryptography and uses two independent displays that combine into …

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STAR Program uses Augmented Reality for Medical Purposes

by Norbert Hildebrand

The System for Telementoring with Augmented Reality, or the STAR program for short, is a multi-institution project sponsored by the Office of the US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. It includes Purdue …

OASIS aims to develop Standards for the use of Augmented Reality

by Norbert Hildebrand

The OASIS group has stated that it is working on standards for using augmented reality content in information products. OASIS is a non-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards …

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Computer Vision With SMI

by Steve Sechrist

Epson’s AR Glasses at Siggraph with integrated eye-tracking from SMI. Note the (rather) large brick required to process the data. It’s fine for industry but the company will have to migrate this to a …

Empowerment Informatics 007

by Steve Sechrist

“Childhood” simulation display VR creates the child’s view of the world, from Augmented Human Technologies Design group at U of Tsukuba JapanOn the application side, one of the more unique discoveries at the show …

Qualcomm Has a Mixed Reality Engine

by Steve Sechrist

Mattel’s new version of Viewmaster will crack open to allow a smart phone to be put inside and viewed in stereo 3D with a unique twist, support for Vuforia object recognition, triggering events by …

Siggraph 2015 – Milestones in VR, AR and More

by Steve Sechrist

It was all things VR and AR at this year’s 42nd annual Siggraph, the Special Interest Group Graphics international conference sponsored by the ACM Association for Computer Machinery. The 2015 show was held in …

Oculus Will Focus on the Virtual Reality Market

by Norbert Hildebrand

Wired magazine has released an interview with Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, in which he states that Oculus will focus in the immediate future on Virtual Reality (VR) rather than Augmented Reality (AR). This distinction …

Google Spins Off Niantic Labs

by Norbert Hildebrand

Google is spinning off its Niantic Labs activity, responsible for the augmented reality game Ingress and a location based mobile app. Ingress is a very successful augmented reality game, which has been downloaded more …

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Nomadic Virtual Reality Opens SIGGRAPH VR Village

by Steve Sechrist

The Virtual Reality Village opened for the first time at the Special Interest Group Graphics (SIGGRAPH for short) conference and Exhibition in Los Angeles. A VR Village highlight included a nomadic Virtual Reality system …

Epson to Demonstrate Latest Moverio BT-200 AR Applications at SIGGRAPH 2015

by Helen Vince

Epson America will be demonstrating the latest consumer and enterprise applications on its Moverio® BT-200 augmented reality smart glasses at SIGGRAPH 2015 Aug. 11-13 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Additionally, Epson invites developers …

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