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Augmented Reality Features Coming to USA Today App

by Andrew Fenn

Earlier this year, newspaper USA Today released the “321 Launch” app, an augmented reality experience featuring a simulated rocket launch. The company has now announced that some of its features will soon make their …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 28

AR Technology Turns Any Surface Into an Interactive Touchscreen

by Andrew Fenn

Post Mobile AR, a new augmented reality solution from US-based company Spacee, allows 2D or 3D surfaces to be turned into an interactive touchscreen that can be used without the need of a headset …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 28

Magic Leap Comes Out With A Device – Sort Of

by Norbert Hildebrand

Magic Leap has just announced that they will be shipping their Magic Leap One device to developers his summer. While this still leaves a significant time span for the actual release date, we are …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 25 - Issue 28

CTA 2069 and Other Words for VR, AR and MR

by Matthew Brennesholtz

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) recently introduced a new standard, CTA-2069, Definitions and Characteristics of Augmented and Virtual Reality Technologies. This standard can be downloaded for free from the CTA Website, although registration with …

Tags:Augmented Reality| CTA (was CEA)| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 27

Strategy Analytics: AR Must Be Developed In-App to Enhance UX

by Andrew Fenn

Pokémon Go and Snapchat have been the epitome of AR for the masses, though many users are unaware of the AR technology and further use-cases available to them. Strategy Analytics recently found that familiar …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 27

ABI: AR/VR Over Wireless Networks Gaining Momentum in Industrial Sector

by Andrew Fenn

Augmented reality is growing in presence in industrial applications such as smart manufacturing and remote operation of industrial machinery, according to ABI Research. To serve workers that use devices in a wider range of …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 27

A Preview of the NReal AR Headset

by Arthur Berman

At the recent Augmented World Expo 2018 held in Santa Clara, California, an AR headset was exhibited by start-up company nreal Technology Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China). It is pictured in the figure below. The …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 27

The Univet VisionAR Offers AR in Safety Glasses

by Arthur Berman

The VisionAR augmented reality safety glasses, produced by Univet S.r.l. (Rezzato, Italy), were designed for industrial applications (and were recently shown at AWE (UniVet Developing AR Safety Glasses). The headset includes a monocular projection …

Spex Combines VR and AR into an All Day Wearable HMD

by Arthur Berman

Spex, a new division of eSight Corporation (Toronto, Canada) has developed the so-called Super Vision HMD (and showed it at AWE Spex Concentrates on Improving Vision – subscription required). The company describes the Super …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Vol 25 - Issue 29

Shadow Creator Shows the Action One Headset

by Arthur Berman

Shadow Creator Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China) presented a new mixed reality headset at CES Asia 2018. It is called the Action One. In agreement with one of the reports on the aesthetics …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 27

Consumer Technology Association Releases Its First AR/VR Standard

by Andrew Fenn

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has published its first-ever standard addressing AR/VR technologies. “CTA-2069, Definitions and Characteristics of Augmented and Virtual Reality Technologies” introduces various terms defining emerging consumer technologies such as AR, MR, …

Microsoft Filed a Patent for Technology to Widen HoloLens FOV

by Andrew Fenn

It has come to light that Microsoft filed a patent back in December 2016 for technology to widen the field of view (FOV) of its HoloLens augmented reality headset. The documentation details a microelectromechanical …