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Swiss Society of Virtual and Augmented Reality
HoloLens Challenge #16 Winner Brings the Cowbell
Atlanta based Microsoft MVP and author of Beginning Kinect Programming with Microsoft Kinect, James Ashley has been running monthly challenges since around the release of the HoloLens Developers Kits. Each month, those of us who follow what happens in the community, can look forward to seeing what creative ideas come out of these challenges. It...
uSens Introduces Markerless Tracking for Mobile Apps
With mobile developers near and far primed to implement augmented reality into their iOS apps with Apple’s ARKit, uSens offers them a new tool for markerless location tracking. The tracking solutions provider announced today that they have developed an inside-out positional tracking solution for mobile devices with capability for six degrees of freedom (6DOF) based...
Apple AR: Watch This Phone Levitate Before Your Eyes
Sometimes the demos for Apple’s ARKit are so good that it almost looks like magic. A recent demo, in particular, shows exactly what kind of magic tricks you can perform using the ARKit. The demo was posted by @LaanLabs on Twitter. Laan Labs creates apps and are known for their other ARKit demonstration, ARuler. This...
Your Favorite Paintings Are Getting a 2017 AR Update at Ontario Gallery
If you’ve ever wanted to see a selfie stick in centuries old works of art, now’s your chance. The Art Gallery of Ontario is launching an exhibit called “ReBlink.” The exhibit uses augmented reality to give modern updates to their paintings which visitors can see through their smartphones or tablets. When users walk into the...
SDCC 2017: Piloting A Spinner In Blade Runner 2049’s Replicant Pursuit
Gear VR owners only have to wait until tomorrow (July 21) to try the Replicant Pursuit tie in for the upcoming Blade Runner 2049 film, but we got an early sneak peak at Comic-Con in San Diego enhanced with D-BOX motion chairs. It begins inside Gear VR in the cockpit of a spinner, also known...
Oculus: ‘4 VR titles have made more than $1M in the Oculus store alone’
For VR to succeed in the consumer space, an ecosystem of developers making content that users want to buy is an absolute must. Oculus for its part has attempted to kickstart that ecosystem by investing hefty sums in content developers, and now the company says it’s starting to pay off. Update (7/20/17): Since initially saying...
Experimental iPhone App Uses AR To Suspend Your Images In Mid-Air
Apple and augmented reality have both been mentioned in conversation a few times, most recently in our report on a new patent for Light Field AR. Now there’s a conversation about Apple AR of a different flavor due to a creator’s first experiment with apps. Reported on Gizmodo, creator Dan Monaghan’s Float0 gives you an image gallery...
5 Essential Tips For Surviving Superhot VR
Superhot VR does not love you. It wants to hurt you, beat you, break you, and grind you down into the hardened combat veteran that you’ll need to embody to survive. With the hit VR combat game finally arriving on PlayStation VR (PSVR) this week, we thought it was about time to offer some helpful...
daystAR is Lenovo’s New Concept Design For An AR Headset
Lenovo is clearly hungry to make its mark in VR and AR; the company’s just announced a new AR headset, making it the fourth head-mounted display we’ve seen from it so far this year. daystAR, as the device is called, was revealed at the TechWorld conference this week, though it’s only a concept right now....