Virtual and augmented reality news
It’s been a big week for WebVR. First, Oculus launched a developer preview of its own VR web browser, Carmel, and now Google is finally bringing beta integration to Chrome on Android. The search engine giant launched the WebVR API on Chrome for Android in a test state. To get started with it, web developers need...
2016 has been a busy year in VR for the BBC, as it started to figure out what role the medium will play in its future by releasing a range of 360 and VR projects exploring the boundaries of the new medium. These projects covered a broad spectrum of subjects and audiences, ranging from harrowing...
Unity was reluctant to put a final date on the launch of Editor VR when it was last shown at Unite 2016 in November, but we now know it will be with us very, very soon. Timoni West, Principal Designer at the company and one of Editor VR’s biggest evangelists, confirmed that an “experimental build”...
Readers may be interested in a perspective article on High Tech Forum about Augmented Reality in Business. The article draws on other articles and includes historical information about user interfaces, and moves onto AR interaction and how AR technology can relieve constraints, representing the first real change in the way information age people interact with...
Development company Datacom have moved premises into the AR/VR Garage in Auckland, New Zealand, to develop AR technology. Datacom will be working with Microsoft’s HoloLens headset to develop new products, including apps. Front-end visualisation is the focus for development, to develop new AR products. Chris Blair, Delivery and Innovation Agent at Datacom, foresees that Augmented...
Worth a read is a section on Augmented Reality on the Wall Street Journal’s Morning Download, December 13 2016. The article mentions AGCO Corp, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, whose factory workers are equipped with AR glasses to improve logging of quality checks (use of the wearables made the checks 20% faster). The firm has plans...
The U.S. Postal Service wants to make gift giving just a little more magical. The postal service has released a free augmented reality smartphone app a la Pokémon Go, just with a little less competition and a little more holiday cheer. In order to use the app, you need to buy one of the postal...
It turns out a lot of the same things football players need to practice to perform better on the field, also applies to enterprise – at least in virtual reality. And so startup STRIVR Labs has launched into a new enterprise VR training business, while still remaining in the sports VR training game. The company...
Wevr is following in the footsteps of traditional media companies like HBO, Netflix and Hulu. The virtual reality startup is launching a $20 annual subscription premium channel on its Transport service, offering early VR users unlimited access to exclusive content like Deepak Chopra’s Finding Your True Self, Tyler Hurd’s Tribeca Film Festival VR hit, Old...
Unity was reluctant to put a final date on the launch of Editor VR when it was last shown at Unite 2016 in November, but we now know it will be with us very, very soon. Timoni West, Principal Designer at the company and one of Editor VR’s biggest evangelists, confirmed that an “experimental build”...
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