While The Walking Dead has brand recognition for its AR game, ARZombi has ARKit. Their forthcoming app, built on ARKit by an independent team of horror aficionados, is more reminiscent of zombie mode in recent installments of the Call of Duty franchise than AMC’s location-based mobile game. The game takes place in the player’s home,...
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Fight Zombies Armed with ARKit in ARZombi
While The Walking Dead has brand recognition for its AR game, ARZombi has ARKit. Their forthcoming app, built on ARKit by an independent team of horror aficionados, is more reminiscent of zombie mode in recent installments of the Call of Duty franchise than AMC’s location-based mobile game. The game takes place in the player’s home,...
Apple AR: Scope AR Updates Remote AR for ARKit
Ahead of the highly-anticipated iPhone unveiling and iOS 11 launch, augmented reality developer Scope AR has confirmed that the iOS version of Remote AR, their live support video calling app, will support iOS 11 and ARKit immediately. Remote AR enables users and remote support experts to collaborate over a live video call and create and...
Dev Report: Microsoft Unleashes Trio of Updates & Meta 2 Supports SteamVR
It has been an interesting few days in developer news. The Microsoft blog has been busy with information relative to the augmented reality space. Meta 2 has also announced an interesting development this week. Here is a collection of various tidbits that have been collecting up. Fall Creators Edition Coming Oct. 17 According to one...
Varidesk Raises App to Visualize & Purchase Standing Desks
The standing desk movement has gained momentum over the past few years as research has pointed to the detrimental health effects of sitting at a desk all day. For those who are ready to take the plunge into this new paradigm, standing desk vendor Varidesk has a mobile augmented reality app, AR Office Planner, for...
Research Papers & Patents Point to Magic Leap’s AR Ambitions
In June at the eMerge Americas investors conference, Magic Leap founder (and NR50 member) Rony Abovitz proclaimed that the launch of their flagship product was “not far away.” Nearly three months later, an eternity in the tech world, and we have not heard an official launch date from the company. However, reviewing some recent paperwork...
Research Papers and Patents Point to Magic Leap’s AR Ambitions
In June at the eMerge Americas investors conference, Magic Leap founder (and NR50 member) Rony Abovitz proclaimed that the launch of their flagship product was “not far away.” Nearly three months later, an eternity in the tech world, and we have not heard an official launch date from the company. However, reviewing some recent paperwork...
The Walking Dead Doubles Down on AR with Another Mobile App
It seems like it was just last week that AMC and Next Games unveiled their location-based zombie game based on hit TV series The Walking Dead. (Wait, actually it was just last week.) But, just like a walker seeking fresh flesh, AMC is back this week with another AR mobile app to promote the upcoming...
HoloLens Dev 101: Building a Dynamic User Interface for the HoloLens, Part 2 (The System Manager)
Now that we have installed the toolkit, setup our prefabs, and prepared Unity for export to HoloLens, we can proceed with the fun stuff. In this section, we will build the system manager. On the most basic level, the system manager is a simple system that is designed to work the same with any 3D...
Top Trends in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2017
A feature on the Gartner Hype Cycle, by Kasey Panetta, suggests enterprises need to explain the business potential of blockchain, artificial intelligence and augmented reality. The technology would offer higher levels of performance from employees and offer businesses an edge. Whilst the technology is upwards of 10 years from mainstream adoption, it has the potential...
