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First Application of Smartglasses in an Active Healthcare Facility

by Norbert Hildebrand

We have reported in many articles how augmented reality is aiming at industrial, professional and corporate applications after the consumer products like Google Glass did not take off as hoped for by Google and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Health and Safety| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 44

AMD Optimises for AR & VR

by Milos Pavlovic

AMD has released new software for its Radeon chips that will be, effectively, an operating system for the company’s chips when used in stand-alone applications such as A/R and V/R headsets. AMD has already …

Tags:AMD| Augmented Reality| Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 44

Magic Leap Shares Its Vision of Augmented Reality

by Norbert Hildebrand

During the recent WSJD Technology Event (WSJ.d Live) held in Laguna Beach, CA, Rony Abovitz , CEO of Magic Leap talked in an interview about their latest developments and further plans. Magic Leap is …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Holographic Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Vol 22 - Issue 43

Amazon AR

Rumor: Amazon Working on AR Glasses

by Norbert Hildebrand

Rumors about the interest of Amazon in augmented reality have been circulating since Amazon received the US patent “Touch control for immersion in a tablet goggles accessory” (No. 9,158,15). This patent describes a method …

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PTC to Acquire Augmented Reality Leader Vuforia from Qualcomm

by Isaac Oburu

PTC (NASDAQ:PTC) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Vuforia business from Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), for $65 million. Vuforia is the industry’s …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mergers & Acquisitions| Qualcomm

Qualcomm

Qualcomm Leaves AR Market With Vuforia Sale

by Tom Allen

Software specialist PTC (formerly Parametric Technology Corporation) is to acquire the Vuforia augmented reality business from Qualcomm Connected Experiences (a subsidiary of Qualcomm). The deal is worth $65 million. Vuforia is a platform and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 22 - Issue 41

Microsoft’s Augmented Reality Work Not Confined to Hololens

by Tom Allen

Jaron Lanier – credited as one of the pioneers of virtual reality, now working at Microsoft Research – is working on multi-person augmented reality. The work – shown privately at Siggraph earlier this year …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 41

Google, Patents and Holograms

by Norbert Hildebrand

In recent news, Google was quoted by almost all publications on this planet (it seemed) as filing for a patent that involves displaying holograms in their next generation head mounted display device. There is …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Google Glass| Holographic Displays| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 40

Wall Street Looks at Virtual Reality as the Next Big Thing?

by Norbert Hildebrand

Besides the number of big names jumping into the augmented and virtual reality markets, market success has been very limited. Virtual reality has been more of a future thing than a business success today. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 39