ViveNchill, the intriguing new bolt-on dual-fan cooling solution for the HTC Vive, has begun its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. Update (7/17/17): The ViveNchill Indiegogo is now at 193% of its $5,000 goal. With 13 days remaining, the campaign appears on track to at least double its goal. Although the creators of the campaign haven’t announced any stretch...
This is one of the coolest applications of Apple’s ARKit that we’ve seen so far. The 3D software product studio gradientspace has created a Minecraft 3D scanner using ARKit. The scanner lets you Minecraft your world. While it’s unclear exactly how the application works, in the video the scanner starts by slowly moving over a...
VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. Just last week we learned about Facebook’s plan for a $200 headset that occupies the low end of the market while Google continues work on a six degrees of freedom standalone headset. What’s unclear...
When writing about the future of mixed reality in December, we highlighted WaveOptics‘ efforts to curve the scalability and quality issues that were plaguing MagicLeap at the time. The company’s patented waveguide provides a hologram-based alternative to conventional augmented reality projection and they’re taking the £12 million ($15.6 million) from a series B round of funding...
The dungeon crawl RPG isn’t quite as popular nowadays as it used to be — at least, not in its most traditional form. Created as a way of adapting the likes of Dungeons & Dragons to a digital computer game interface mixed with the tenants of text adventures like Zork, the first dungeon crawlers were...
WaveOptics, a UK-based firm involved in designing and engineering optics for augmented reality, has today announced a successful series B funding round amounting to £12.0m ($15.7m). Investors include Touchstone Innovations, Robert Bosch Venture Capital GMBH, Octopus Investments, and Gobi Ventures. The company is currently developing AR glasses using holographic waveguide technology, a nano-scale technique that...
The gaming company Ivanovich Games has created a sort of “game-ception” using Apple’s ARKit. They have created a Steam powered playable Arcade Machine game called “Operation Warcade” which can now be projected into real life using AR, creating a true “go inside the video game” experience. The person playing the game in the video has...
You will soon be able to play an AR version of one of the most frustrating mobile games of all time, thanks to Apple’s ARKit. We all remember the game ‘Flappy Bird’. It took the nation by storm, making millions fast. People became addicted to trying to get that little bird to successfully fly between...
Heathrow Airport’s most recent arrival isn’t a flight, but rather an interactive children’s game featuring augmented reality technology. The game is the first of its kind at the airport, allowing children to scan digital badges using an app on their smartphones to see characters from Mr. Men and Little Miss — the popular series of...
We’ve seen how AR can thrive as an instructional platform before, but what if there was a singular AR app that could teach you how to work with practically anything? JigSpace wants to be that app. You can think of JigSpace as a sort of ‘How To’ manual that aims to cover practically any product...
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