Tag: augmented reality

A few days ago, I pulled up the Windows Store on my HoloLens and saw a few new applications. One that caught my attention was Oriental Museum, which lets you explore China’s Forbidden City, and the other one is very similar free demo app called Secrets of Ancient Egypt by Link Development. Secrets of Ancient...

Earlier this week, a mysterious tweet appeared on the HTC Twitter account of a picture containing the letter “U” topped with a tiny “for” and the date “01.12.2017” at the bottom. It is a pretty solid teaser, but for a company that has had a solid year with their Vive virtual reality headset, and all...

Here at NextReality, we talk a lot about the many different ways of controlling holograms in the HoloLens and other augmented and mixed reality devices; New and creative ways are coming more and more every day. Most recently is something called the HoloSuit. In the 25-second clip below, you can see a woman moving the...

Well, we have some potentially good news for those wanting to experience Magic Leap. The ultra-secretive company seems to be planning a big year in 2017. Magic Leap’s new CMO Brenda Freeman said in an interview with Recode that not only is Magic Leap on time, it is “racing to launch.” She declined to say...

Joyce Kuo of Nijie Technology released a video showing a group fighting it out Dragon Ball Z-style in a restaurant, but instead of Goku, Piccolo or Vegeta, we have two horse-headed young ladies shooting fire and other elements at each other. From what I can make out, they’re using HoloLens headsets (obviously) with a Vuforia-style...

The Meta 2 developer kit has finally begun shipping! Gary Garcia, the senior director of customer success at Meta, just sent out an email that they are shipping out to the first round of preorder customers. Waves will be building from there, up to far higher manufacturing rates near the end of Q1 of 2017....

An article on Nanalyze discusses Osterhout Design Group’s (ODG) recent investment in Augmented Reality. Following last year’s release of their R-7 AR headset, this month they closed a Series A funding round of $58 million. ODG’s R-7 features a HD 3D screen and has a lighter design than previous versions; it also provides sufficient power...

An article on PR Newswire reported on the $2 million seed round which developer of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, Neurable, has raised for its software platform. The round was led by Brian Shin from Accomplice’s Boston Syndicate, and other investors include Kraft Group, Loup Ventures, and NXT Ventures. The new tech measures and interprets brain...

SAN FRANCISCO — HoloLens, Microsoft’s self-contained holographic computer, arrives in developers’ hands around the world today, but when they open those exquisitely designed black boxes, the devices they receive will largely be a mystery to them — both how they work and, more importantly, what they’re good for. At its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft...

This week, two separate articles on Business Wire and Erie News Now reported on a new Tracker research program by the International Data Corporation (IDC), which focuses on the Augmented and Virtual Reality headset market. Significant points mentioned by both articles include: According to IDC, worldwide shipments of ARVR headsets will increase by a compound...