Developer booed on stage as gamers left unable to connect to play popular augmented reality game after mobile networks and servers overloaded The first ever, official Pokémon Go Fest collapsed into chaos on Saturday, after attendees who had queued for hours for the chance to catch Legendary Pokémon Lugia found the game almost unplayable due...
Augmented and virtual reality continues to be a hot commodity among tech investors, with more than $800 million invested in AR/VR companies in the second quarter alone and global tech leaders like Samsung focusing their investment strategies on the emerging field. The investment fervor is justified. Financial firm Deloitte found in a 2016 survey of...
As augmented reality becomes more and more integrated into the mainstream, people have been wondering the future of AR is going to look like. Jay Samit has a pretty clear idea. Samit is an expert in digital media innovation. He has been called a leader in digital “disruption” and has partnered with people like Bill...
When we think of augmented reality, we usually think of it as adding things to our reality. A new demo has shown that using Apple’s ARKit, we can not only add to reality but subtract from reality as well. The demo was posted by Laan Labs who just yesterday created a demo that had an...
It’s safe to say that mobile developers are excited about the prospects of Apple’s ARKit, with demos popping up seemingly on the hour on YouTube, Twitter, etc. Now, developers are starting to preview actual products. One of them, Directive Games based in Shanghai, China, has come forward with a preview of an augmented reality game...
Readers may be interested in a whitepaper named ‘Augmented Reality Technologies Offer Industry Changing Applications’. The key topic area is advancing workforces with Smart Glasses. The author is Zachary Wassenberg of Burns McDonnell, a specialist construction engineering company. The document discusses a range of topics including: Smart Glass Technology Terms Safety: Improving construction environments Disaster...
The AREA has issued a request for proposals for a funded research project that will develop a full set of best practices for performing analyses of the return on investment (ROI) of enterprise AR projects. Organizations with relevant expertise in ROI analysis are invited to respond to the invitation by August 14th. The goals of...
The post AREA Member-Exclusive Webinar: Security in Wearables appeared first on The AREA. Source: AREA Member-Exclusive Webinar: Security in Wearables
Atlanta based Microsoft MVP and author of Beginning Kinect Programming with Microsoft Kinect, James Ashley has been running monthly challenges since around the release of the HoloLens Developers Kits. Each month, those of us who follow what happens in the community, can look forward to seeing what creative ideas come out of these challenges. It...
With mobile developers near and far primed to implement augmented reality into their iOS apps with Apple’s ARKit, uSens offers them a new tool for markerless location tracking. The tracking solutions provider announced today that they have developed an inside-out positional tracking solution for mobile devices with capability for six degrees of freedom (6DOF) based...
By continuing to use the site, you agree to the use of cookies. more information
The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible. If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this.