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Virtual Reality Intrigues Disney and Other Players

by Norbert Hildebrand

Virtual reality is still a hot topic, even though the consumer uptake in the form of device purchases is still dismal. Market growth in terms of units sold are always impressive if the base …

Kverve Has New Optics for AR (DS11b)

by Bob Raikes

Jorn Eriksen is from Kverve, a start up from Norway (Eriksen was the founder of CEO of Projection Design, so has some track record in the industry). The project that Kverve is working on …

Digilens Creates Polymer Optics (DS11)

by Bob Raikes

Jonathan Waldern is CEO of Digilens which has a new kind of material for waveguide optics. He started by asking “who has heard of Google Glass?” – who has tried it, and who would …

AR and VR Sales to Rise 10 Times by 2018

by Milos Pavlovic

CCS Insight has predicted that 2.5 million VR and AR devices will be sold this year – increasing to 24 million in 2018. CCS Insight praised the work of company’s such as Google, which …

3D Depth Cameras Produce a Lot of Data

by Bob Raikes

Ken Lee is from VanGogh Imaging and he talked about mixed reality for smartphones and wearables. The company has expertise in software and 3D computer vision. VanGogh is seven years old and the firm …

Tobii Explains Gaze in AR

by Bob Raikes

The next session was on hardware and the first speaker was Matthew Clyne, from Tobii Technology, where he is a technology evangelist, working on developing partnerships and supporting developers. Tobii was founded in 2001 …

Will AR Kill Traditional Displays? Citrix Thinks So…

by Bob Raikes

Guy Bieber is from Citrix and he is from the office of the CTO. He showed a video of AR concepts – involving architecture and remote medicine. When you want to make a change, …

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AR to Kill the Display Business?

by Bob Raikes

Juergen Lumera of Bosch Automotive, where he is involved in technical documentation, started by saying its easier to get outsiders to introduce AR – insiders are not always trusted. To get out of “sandboxes” …

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AR in the Enterprise Needs Rich Data

by Bob Raikes

We moved to the AR for Enterprise track where where he heard that the Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) is a trade association that is supporting the development of professional and corporate applications …

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Qualcomm Sets Out Vuforia Use

by Bob Raikes

The success of mobile devices, we believe, is partly driven by the sensors that are available on them. The desktop has not had the same development in input – the keyboard and mouse remain …

AWE 2015 Buzzes on Metaio Sale

by Bob Raikes

We were in San Jose for the SID and remained in the area for a few days afterwards. We were able to get a day at the Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2015 conference in …

Bicycles may be a Key to Consumer Adoption of Augmented Reality

by Norbert Hildebrand

Future Cities Catapult is a British-based company focusing on analyzing issues in today’s urban environments and the development of innovations defining the urban society of tomorrow. The company helps innovators and futurists to develop …

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