If you’ve ever organized an event, you know how chaotic it can be. Event planners are essential, but even so, taking the time to make sure it’s organized and everyone is getting what they want can be stressful. Especially when you have to account for what every person is eating at the event, what their...
Another day brings another Apple ARKit demo, this time for a first-person role playing game that inserts villagers, vendors, and villains into real world locations. Finnish developer Lauri Rustanius shared a series of videos via Twitter for a game called Genereal World that is under development. “We are in the prototype phase. So they might...
Building virtual portals are popular practice for developers to demonstrate the “wow” factor of augmented reality. Since the introduction of Apple ARKit, several demonstrations have shown how iPhones and iPad users will have access to their own alternate worlds when iOS 11 arrives this fall. The latest such demo comes courtesy of independent developer Gian...
Advertisers must love when their commercials go viral. Take for instance the Esurance commercial where an elderly woman completely misunderstands Facebook jargon. “That’s not how it works! That’s not how any of this works!” And a meme is born. Well, what if I told you there was an app that let users turn real-life walls...
If you’ve ever browsed a restaurant menu and wondered what a particular dish looks like, then the augmented reality mobile app from Kabaq was made for you. KabaQ displays highly-realistic 3D models of menu items on the user’s view of their table, allowing them to see various selections from multiple angles and zoom levels. The...
GE Aviation and their software partner Upskill are seeing success by giving their mechanics smart tools and smart glasses, the latter in the form of Google Glass. In a pilot program at their Cincinnati factory, GE Aviation gave a team of mechanics Google Glass Enterprise Edition and Upskill’s Skylight software to assist them in assembly...
Sports gaming company ePlay Digital, Inc. is looking to capitalize on the fall launch of iOS 11 and ARKit with an augmented reality fantasy sports app. With ePlay GO, the company is borrowing a few pages out of Pokémon Go’s playbook, with players finding virtual avatars of athletes, who spawn based on an algorithm, in...
AREA member Boeing has announced that its venture capital arm, HorizonX, will be investing in C360 Technologies, a startup that focuses on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and 360-Degree videos. Boeing Vice President for Horizon, Steve Nordlund, said the investment is a ‘win-win’ due to C360s video capabilities it will bring to a new market while providing...
We’d like to draw our readers’ attention to an article on Medium.com by Amitt Mahajan “How Augmented Reality will put people back to work”. Augmented Reality has the potential to help transition displaced workers who have lost their jobs due to increasing automation. By providing a worker with just-in-time information, AR enables them to perform...
An update to the iFramed social media gateway app for iOS adds an augmented reality feature called JuxImage that gives its users Snapchat-like photo and video effects. For the uninitiated, iFramed enables users to post sponsored content to various social media outlets. Users can upload photos and videos, select the sites where they want them...
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