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iPhone 12 Advances VR – AR

by Steve Sechrist

OK, you’ve been hunkered down at home for the past five weeks, but may still have missed all the buzz about the next generation flagship iPhone (12?) Forget the talk of a smaller notch, …

Tags:3D Depth Cameras| Apple| Augmented Reality| Cameras| iPhone

MeCap Can Add Low Cost Whole Body Digitization to VR/AR Headsets

by Arthur Berman

The starting point for research by a team headed by Karan Ahuja of the Future Interfaces Group within the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) is the observation that “low-cost, smartphone-powered …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Motion Capture| Virtual Reality

AR, VR, MR, What Can Be Improved?

by Artem Alekseenko

In the coming decade, there will be many technological advances, which will hopefully overcome some of the limitations faced by AR, VR and MR products currently. IDTechEx’s most recent report on “Augmented, Mixed and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| IdTechEx| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Over $4 billion AR/VR Investment in 2019 for 3rd Highest Year

by Artem Alekseenko

Digi-Capital’s AR/VR Analytics Platform tracked $4.1 billion AR/VR investment in 2019, the third-highest virtual reality investment and augmented reality investment year on record after 2017 and 2018. However, investment dropped significantly in Q4 2019 …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

It is Time to Say Goodbye!

by Norbert Hildebrand

After more than a decade of writing articles and presenting my opinions and analysis to the more than grateful readers, it is time for me to say “Goodbye!” In other words, I am planning …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Mobile Phones| TVs (TV Sets)| Virtual Reality

Can a Virus Help VR to Go Mainstream?

by Norbert Hildebrand

I know this is a stretch for any imagination, however, an increase in the number of outbreaks of new and unknown diseases seems to be the norm today. MERS, SARS and now the new …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Covid-19| VideoConferencing| Virtual Reality

Chasing Stories in Enterprise XR and Beyond

by Len Scrogan

When trying to demonstrate the effectiveness of XR, and creating stronger buy-in, which is more important—showing the data or telling powerful stories? My sense of things is that showing quantifiable results usually wins the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Virtual Reality