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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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SMI Shows First Eye Tracking Upgrade for Augmented Reality Glasses

by Bob Raikes

At the 2015 Siggraph Conference, SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) shows the world’s first Eye Tracking Integration for augmented reality, based on Epson’s Moverio BT-200 see-through head mounted display and on SMI’s mobile eye tracking platform. …

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Microsoft Sees a Five Year Timeframe to Make HoloLens Attractive for Consumers

by Norbert Hildebrand

In an interview with the BBC, Microsoft CEO Sataya Nadella, of course, praised the recent release of WIndows 10 as the begin of a journey into a new era. While this may be true …

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Senth IN1 AR Glasses for the Cycling Enthusiast

by Norbert Hildebrand

Recon Instruments released the Recon Jet earlier this year, and now it is joined by the Senth IN1 from Insenth (a China-based startup company) that is also aiming at the cycling enthusiasts. The headset …

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Microsoft HoloLens Looking at Researchers to Understand Augmented Reality

by Norbert Hildebrand

Since Google pulled Google Glass out off the limelight, Microsoft has stepped in by announcing its Microsoft HoloLens device during the Windows 10 announcement. It is kind of interesting to see which announcement was …

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