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Precision Metrics in XR

by Len Scrogan

Extended Reality (XR) is earning a lot of ‘street cred’ these days in the medical field. I see creative application and diverse use cases of XR everywhere I tread: in conference presentations, webinars, hospitals …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Looking Glass Factory Ships Its 8K Holographic Display

by Artem Alekseenko

For enterprises that have been waiting decades for a large-format holographic solution that doesn’t require the friction of VR or AR headsets, the Looking Glass 8K Immersive Display is now shipping worldwide. Orders are …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Virtual Reality

Chasing Hearts and Minds in Enterprise XR and Beyond

by Len Scrogan

In my two previous articles in this series, Chasing Stories in Enterprise XR and Chasing Data in Enterprise XR, we established opposite positions on a crucial question about selling or promoting XR: “Which is …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Chasing Data in Enterprise XR and Beyond

by Len Scrogan

Feel-good stories (like customer engagement and titillating use cases) for immersive XR applications are what we always seem to hear about these days. In a previous article, Chasing Stories in Enterprise XR and Beyond, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

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

IDTechEx Research on Virtual Reality: To Be or Not to Be

by Artem Alekseenko

XR is a term which has become more prominent in the last few years. It encapsulates virtual, augmented, and mixed reality topics. The definition of each of these has become saturated in the past …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| IdTechEx| 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 …

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