While most of Hollywood and its celebrity class are enthralled by virtual reality, a new augmented reality experience featuring some of the music and film world’s top talent is preparing for virtual liftoff. Masters of the Sun is a graphic novel that was released this summer and will debut as a new AR experience later...
To the best of my recollection, Fruit Ninja was one of the first touchscreen games that appeared to really take advantage of the new paradigm of user input, turning the player’s finger into a produce-slicing katana. At first blush, the latest title from Halfbrick Studios, makers of that mobile megahit, is a bit indecisive on...
If you know your internet history, then you fondly remember the Star Wars Kid and his epic lightsaber display on YouTube. Now, many years later, everyone is following in the footsteps of the Star Wars Kid thanks to the Lenovo Mirage and the new Star Wars: Jedi Challenges app. The augmented reality headset and lightsaber...
Considered by many (perhaps unfairly) to be a very public failure, Google Glass can add another plot point to its comeback story, this time as a tool to teach social skills to children and adults with autism. Enter Brain Power, a company that has combined neuroscience and augmented reality. The launch of the company’s Empower...
So after setting everything up, creating the system, working with focus and gaze, creating our bounding box and UI elements, unlocking the menu movement, as well as jumping through hoops refactoring a few parts of the system itself, we have finally made it to the point in our series on dynamic user interfaces for HoloLens...
Exotic sports cars are the province of the ridiculously wealthy but, thanks to augmented reality, you can now get closer than ever to a Bugatti Chiron. Social and mobile gaming powerhouse Zynga has updated the iOS version of its popular racing game meets Fast & Furious simulator called CSR 2 (CSR Racing 2) with an...
So after setup, system creation, creating our bounding box, creating our UI elements, UI movement, as well as jumping through hoops refactoring a few parts of the system itself, we have finally made it to the point where we get some real interaction. Now it’s time to make our objects move, scale and rotate in...
After years of tantalizing drone video, and then brief glimpses from special guests sharing photos on social media, the Apple Park Visitor Center finally opened to the public on Friday, Nov. 17. Anchored by a $427 million main building that is often referred to as the “spaceship” building, the overall cost to build the new...
Now Augmented Reality is getting the HBR spotlight in the November/December issue – and you can download a copy of the article HERE. In it, noted strategist, author, and Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at the Harvard Business School, Michael Porter and Jim Heppelmann, president and CEO of AREA member PTC, provide business leaders with...
When you run an augmented reality company worth billions of dollars, backed by some of the biggest names in tech, and you haven’t even released a product yet, even late night tweetstorms rank as worthy of dissection. Such is the case with Rony Abovitz, CEO of Magic Leap, who decided to spend a little time...
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