The HoloLens is a natural medium for 3D data visualization, which offers a far more ideal approach over 2D screens to managing multiple resources simultaneously and grasping the bigger picture. We’ve already seen how management is using holograms to oversee cities, firefighters, and the military, and now training for sports teams is being addressed with...
DigiLens, a company specializing in optical waveguide technology, recently announced that they had closed a $22 million round of strategic investment, also known as Series B funding. This round brought in Sony, Foxconn, Continental, and Panasonic, as well as more traditional venture investors such as Alsop Louie Partners, Bold Capital, Nautilus Venture Partners, and Dolby...
In this first part of our tutorial series on making physical objects come to life on HoloLens, we are going to set up Vuforia in Unity. I would plan to keep a Vuforia tab open in your web browser throughout most of this tutorial, and when developing in general, since Vuforia development is tied to...
It seems to me you can’t swing a dead cat near an augmented reality developer without hearing the word Vuforia escape their lips. PTC’s software solution has become the go-to for most developers in the mobile AR space, and since they recently added full support for the HoloLens in Unity, I figured it was about...
A post on Nanalyze this week reveals facts about Lumus, their partners in the AR Ecosystem. There is an emphasis on the rapidly growing AR headset market and Lumus’ possible place within that market. The DK-50 is their standalone kit available to developers Israeli startup Lumus was founded in 2000 and has recently raised$56 million in funding...
A recent post on nanalyze.com completed a list of 13 smart eye wear companies they believe are set to proliferate in 2017. Atheer (AREA member) are focused on making enterprise-ready wearable technology for field engineers and deskless workers Optinvent, with a focus on enterprise solutions, targeting the logistics and manufacturing industries with their Ora-2 Professional...
Students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center have been working on an augmented reality system to help teach music in a project called Music Everywhere. This application for the Microsoft HoloLens would utilize holograms to visually instruct the user and teach them how to play an instrument in the process. Music Everywhere would also...
Applied Visualisation Forum is a one-day gathering to hear first-hand experiences from industry experts working in the medical, construction and transport sectors on the effective use of visualisation to drive innovation and business opportunities. The forum encourages those working in the field of visualisation and virtual reality (VR) to share their expertise, good practice, hardware and software advances and application in VR,...
The 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas saw Osterhout Design Group (ODG) unveil their new R-8 and R-9 glasses (source post on techrepublic.com.) Acting as a complement to user’s mobile devices, the R-8 glasses are intended as a consumer device, whereas the R-9 glasses target prosumer and light enterprise AR users. A press...
General Electric (GE) has made a major commitment to Augmented Reality. The industrial giant recently announced that it plans to roll out AR in three business divisions in 2017 to help workers assemble complex machinery components. In his role leading Innovation and Digital Acceleration for Environmental Health & Safety at General Electric, Sam Murley is...
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