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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...

Sometimes the demos for Apple’s ARKit are so good that it almost looks like magic. A recent demo, in particular, shows exactly what kind of magic tricks you can perform using the ARKit. The demo was posted by @LaanLabs on Twitter. Laan Labs creates apps and are known for their other ARKit demonstration, ARuler. This...

If you’ve ever wanted to see a selfie stick in centuries old works of art, now’s your chance. The Art Gallery of Ontario is launching an exhibit called “ReBlink.” The exhibit uses augmented reality to give modern updates to their paintings which visitors can see through their smartphones or tablets. When users walk into the...

By Dmitry Parilov and Simon Raven AR/MR-assisted trading and data analysis platforms empower traders and investors with advanced fintech, which is capable of monitoring and visualizing financial markets with new depth. Holographic visualization presents a new enhanced view of dynamic data, with flat images evolving into 3D shapes and innovative heatmaps to reveal revolutionary new...

Things are getting more and more interdimensional thanks to Apple’s ARKit. We’ve previously seen some portals work at play with Rainforest Garage and the Interdimensional Portal by Nedd. These demos have only made developers more curious as to what they can do with ARKit portals. 5th Wall Agency, a VR/AR studio based in Montreal, released...

Mobile augmented reality developer Blippar has updated its mobile app for iOS and Android with an augmented reality face profiles feature based on the company’s real-time facial recognition engine. Dubbed Halos, Blippar users can open their own AR face profile and connect with others by scanning (or, in Blippar parlance, “blipping”) their faces. Blippar will...

Casey Hudson, the one-time project director for games like Star Wars: The Knights of the Old Republic and The original Mass Effect trilogy, has announced his return to his former home, Bioware as the General Manager. Of course, that also means he is leaving his role at Microsoft Studios as Creative Director, where he was...

Numerous examples exist of doctors and surgeons using HoloLens to plan surgeries. The device has even been used to view reference images during a procedure and stream it to a remote audience. Until recently, it has not been used to augment the surgeon’s view of the patient during a live surgery. On July 9, neuroradiologist...