According to a report by Bloomberg, Facebook is working on a wireless, standalone VR headset said to target the $200 price range. Citing “people familiar with its development,” the report reveals the Oculus-branded headset, code named ‘Pacific’, will ship sometime next year. The headset is said to be more compact than the company’s PC VR headset the Oculus Rift,...
Bandai Namco announced last month that the company would be opening its first VR ZONE arcade in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Promising branded VR content playing on HTC Vive, the now publicly open arcade features some big names like Nintendo’s Mario Kart Arcade GP VR, Dragon Ball VR, and Gundam VR—most of which uses special motion platforms and other ‘4D’ sense-fooling...
The latest release of Unity, version 2017.1 now officially supports NVIDIA’s VRWorks rendering tech. VRWorks contains a number of rendering features unique to the company’s GPUs which are designed to improve performance in VR applications. Update (7/13/17): After several months in beta, this week Unity launched its latest main branch release, version 2017.1. Alongside some...
One commentator recently described the iPad as ‘done’, but he didn’t mean that it was finished My eye was caught by a headline in the Register, an invaluable online source of tech news and opinion. “Clearance sale shows Apple’s iPad is over. It’s done,” it read. This was a quotation from a piece by Volker...
Mark Zuckerberg at the F8 conference hinted that AR encourages people to interact with others – although that experience is still mediated by a screen We live in a time when society is divided and work is needed to bring people together, but Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks it has the solution: augmented reality. Speaking...
The construction industry has many companies turning to wearable technology to help manage risks and incidents at work according to an article on Insurance Business Mag. They believe occupational injuries and illnesses are estimated to cost the US £250 billion a year but companies using wearables are gaining huge insurance benefits. The article discusses how...
A recent article this week by MobileMarketingWatch.com discusses the research by ABI Research which forecasted that Enterprise Wearable camera shipments will reach nearly 24 million by 2022. It points out that security protocols will need establishing, since as growth increases, so will privacy and data protection concerns. The research indicates that the enterprise wearable camera...
Startup Focus, a company in Canada are looking for innovative AR & IoT startups to pitch at their event ‘AR & IoT in the Enterprise.’ The event is to take place Tuesday 1st August at SAP’s campus in Montreal, QC, Canada. This event allows startup companies in the AR/VR and IoT industry to pitch at...
A market report has been released discussing the worldwide Mobile Augmented Reality Display Market this week (July 2017) providing in depth research on the current industry. This new research offers a strategic assessment of the Mobile Augmented Reality Display Market focusing on the growth opportunities, which will help the industry expand operations in the existing...
Students at Brisbane based Griffith University’s School of Pharmacy and Toxicology are using Wearable Augmented Reality Software and Smart Glasses to gain ‘life-like’ instruction and modern-day workplace scenarios according to a recent article by CIO.com Dr Gary Grant, deputy head for the School of Pharmacy said the Smart Glass technology exposes students to countless workplaces...
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