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by Andrew Fenn
Vuzix claims it has delivered “vastly enhanced vision” to a Pennsylvania high school student, via its Vuzix M300 smart glasses. Alyssa Baxter was born with optic nerve hypoplasia, a condition in which many of …
Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Education| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 48| Vuzix
by Bob Raikes
Magic Leap has finally shown something of its hardware, although it chose to do those through an article in Rolling Stone. However, little was really revealed. The company showed an unusual looking headset, the …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 48
by Matthew Brennesholtz
The recent focus for “Immersive Experiences” has been on Virtual Reality (VR) Head Mounted Displays (HMDs). Let’s not forget there are other display technologies that can also provide immersive experiences, with no need for …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Dome Projection| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 01
by Andrew Fenn
Worldwide proliferation of VR and AR headsets is expected to continue as shipments reach 59.2 million in 2021, up from 9.6 million in 2017, according to IDC. To date, the entire market has been …
Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 48
by Andrew Fenn
Following the launch of ARCore, Google will cease support for Tango, its original AR development kit, on March 1st, 2018. Tango uses a depth sensor in conjunction with a camera and proprietary software that …
Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 48
by Andrew Fenn
Amazon Web Services has announced Sumerian, a new service for building VR, AR and 3D applications for mobile devices, head-mounted displays, digital signage or web browsers. With Amazon Sumerian’s editor, developers can build virtual …
Tags:Amazon| AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 48
by Andrew Fenn
Multiplayer AR laser-tag arena shooting game Father.IO has been released on the App Store and Google Play Store. Created by augmented reality start-up Proxy42, Father.IO uses an external peripheral called the Interceptor, available separately …
Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 48
by Andrew Fenn
AR Lyrics is a new augmented reality app, available now via the App Store. Created by Plan8 using Apple’s ARKit, the app uses Shazam technology to recognise songs being played in the vicinity, and …
Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 48
by Bob Raikes
Vuzix announced that it has raised $12.5 million in a direct offering of 2 million shares at $6.05. The company also issued three year warrants for the purchase of another million shares at $7. …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 47| Vuzix
by Andrew Fenn
Jaunt has announced its new XR Platform, a distribution solution available to media companies, brands, content aggregators and enterprise customers, designed to help them deliver immersive virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality content …
Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 47
by Norbert Hildebrand
AR here, VR there, these days it seems that we cannot discuss any technology development without hearing how AR and VR will change not only consumer electronics but all life as we know it. …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 48
by Bob Raikes
Apple has done a deal to buy Shazam of the UK, which is a service to identify songs from audio detected through the microphone of a mobile device. Obviously, that may make sense on …
Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 47
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