With over 90 people and 45 companies present, the first day of the first Augmented Reality Requirements workshop was an amazing success! The workshop was hosted at the DMDII/UI Labs in Chicago. Mark Sage, Executive Director of the AREA, shares his views on day 1 of the AR Workshop: Hardware / Software Functional Requirements for...
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Free & Open-Source JavaScript Solution for Augmented Reality Comes to Life on Mobile
AR.js is a new JavaScript solution that offers highly efficient augmented reality features to mobile developers. With HoloJS released a few months back, there is a potential that the free AR.js, developed by Jerome Etienne, could work with the Microsoft HoloLens as well. Video: . According to the GitHub repository for the project, the listed...
Microsoft Introduced Acer's New Windows Mixed Reality Development Edition Headset
This morning, in an early morning session at GDC 2017, Brandon Bray, a senior program manager lead at Microsoft, revealed a mixed reality headset made in collaboration with Acer—a different headset than the one we saw from Acer at CES 2017 earlier this year. Also at the event, the name for Microsoft’s holographic system seems...
PlayFusion Secures Funding to Develop Interactive AR Gaming Platform
Independent game developer PlayFusion announced today a partnership with NEXON Korea Corporation, resulting in a Series A preferred share round to fund development of their entertainment platform. PlayFusion’s platform applies augmented reality, Internet of Things (IoT), and audio recognition to Lightseekers, an original property that combines mobile gaming with smart action figures, trading card games,...
Crayola Color Blaster Brings New AR Adventures to Tango-Powered Android Devices
Legacy Games, developer of mobile games for children, has just updated Crayola Color Blaster, an augmented reality Android adventure for Google Tango devices, with new content. “Paint My Dragon,” a new storyline available as an in-app purchase ($0.99), brings dragons, ogres, and other fantasy-based creatures to life. A new arcade mode, enabling faster-paced action, and...
Image Recognition Expected to Generate $40 Billion by 2021
A market research report, posted on February 27, 2017, forecasts that the image recognition market will grow to nearly $40 billion worldwide by 2021. The market, which includes augmented reality applications, hardware, and technology, generated an estimated $15.95 billion in 2016. The report estimates the market to grow by a compound annual growth rate of...
How AR Boosts Workplace L&D
A report by Cognizant says that technology is boosting learning and development (L&D) in the workplace. The report discusses innovation being constant in the information technology industry as it is continuously changing the way services are delivered to the business and to end users. The report states “From the mainframe era on to the Internet stage, we’re now experiencing...
Augmented Reality – Next Frontier for Competitive Advantage
An article released by Cio talks about Augmented Reality being the next frontier for competitive advantage. There is an inflection point where IoT, Cloud and AI started to converge together to lay the foundation for new set of business applications. They believe that one of the most interesting developments where this convergence comes together is the field...
Introduction to Augmented Reality
What is Augmented Reality? Augmented Reality refers to both the technologies and the resulting experience during which contextually relevant digital information (in the form of text, images, graphics, animations, video, 3D virtual objects, sound or haptic stimuli) is presented to the user in real time overlaid on the real environment. It is important to highlight...
Video: HoleLenz Adds Magic Windows to HoloLens & Gives Portals to New Worlds
When I first started with HoloLens development last April, one of the first things I created was a window. The purpose of that window was to be attached to a wall and give the illusion of being in a different space—an effect that is often referred to as a “magic window” effect by developers. My...
