It turns out that coming up groundbreaking technology and raising billions may actually be the easy part for Magic Leap, as a new report has revealed yet another legal entanglement at the Florida-based company. In an article posted late on March 2, Business Insider claims to have seen a police report filed by Magic Leap...
It is finally happening. After not having a major update since August of 2016, HoloLens owners everywhere will soon get a number of new features added to their devices. At least if they are members of the Windows Insider program. Throughout 2017, the Mixed Reality Team at Microsoft seemed focused on the immersive headsets that...
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water (DCWW) supplies drinking water and wastewater services to most of Wales and parts of western England. A public utility with 3,000 employees serving 1.4 million homes and businesses, DCWW maintains 26,500km of water mains and 838 sewage treatment works. DCWW recently launched a pilot project to develop a mobile solution with...
A Swedish digital artist has developed an app for the iPhone X that creates mind-bending 3D illusions that correlate to the user’s point of view. The app, called TheParallaxView, uses the TrueDepth camera on the iPhone X to track the user’s head movements and generates images that correspond to the user’s position in real time....
What many thought was inevitable, based on recent hints, has been revealed to be in the planning stages: Snapchat is working on smartglasses. The surprising information came out on March 2 in a report that also claims Snap Inc. is planning to release version two of its Spectacles product in the third quarter of 2018....
Accused of violating whistleblower and age discrimination laws by its security director, Magic Leap has taken an internal situation to the US District Court to clear its name of the allegations. Among the employee’s accusations is that Magic Leap management acted against his recommendations to confiscate a shipment of Microsoft HoloLens received by the company...
Continuing our series on building a dynamic user interface for the HoloLens, this guide will show how to rotate the objects that we already created and moved and scaled in previous lessons. So far, we’ve built a system that incorporates the user’s gaze and what the user is looking at to determine the UI elements...
According to Indiana Jones, certain things belong in museums, but, thanks to augmented reality, you can now see some of the ancient treasures of the world in your own home via the Civilisations AR app from the BBC. The app, built by Nexus Studios, is available now on the App Store for iPhones and iPads...
Eventually, even the most private company has to file its patents and unveil its tightly-held secrets, and Magic Leap is no exception. The US Patent and Trademark Office recently published a treasure trove of Magic Leap patent applications that appear to provide more details about the Magic Leap One: Creator Edition. One application, filed under...
Researchers have developed a new method that harnesses the power of augmented reality to detect a patient’s heart rate using a Microsoft HoloLens and computer vision. Developed by Dr. Christophe Hurter, a professor at French Civil Aviation University, and Microsoft researchers Daniel McDuff and Mar Gonzalez Franco, Cardiolens uses the HoloLen’s camera to capture signals...
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