In this first part of our tutorial series on making physical objects come to life on HoloLens, we are going to set up Vuforia in Unity. I would plan to keep a Vuforia tab open in your web browser throughout most of this tutorial, and when developing in general, since Vuforia development is tied to...
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HoloLens Dev 102: How to Make Physical Objects Come to Life on HoloLens with Vuforia
It seems to me you can’t swing a dead cat near an augmented reality developer without hearing the word Vuforia escape their lips. PTC’s software solution has become the go-to for most developers in the mobile AR space, and since they recently added full support for the HoloLens in Unity, I figured it was about...
Lumus Augmented Reality SDK
A post on Nanalyze this week reveals facts about Lumus, their partners in the AR Ecosystem. There is an emphasis on the rapidly growing AR headset market and Lumus’ possible place within that market. The DK-50 is their standalone kit available to developers Israeli startup Lumus was founded in 2000 and has recently raised$56 million in funding...
Companies Creating AR Smart Glasses
A recent post on nanalyze.com completed a list of 13 smart eye wear companies they believe are set to proliferate in 2017. Atheer (AREA member) are focused on making enterprise-ready wearable technology for field engineers and deskless workers Optinvent, with a focus on enterprise solutions, targeting the logistics and manufacturing industries with their Ora-2 Professional...
Proof of Concept: Music Everywhere Uses HoloLens to Help Piano Students with Improvisation
Students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center have been working on an augmented reality system to help teach music in a project called Music Everywhere. This application for the Microsoft HoloLens would utilize holograms to visually instruct the user and teach them how to play an instrument in the process. Music Everywhere would also...
Applied Visualisation Forum | Gaydon, UK | January 26, 2017
Applied Visualisation Forum is a one-day gathering to hear first-hand experiences from industry experts working in the medical, construction and transport sectors on the effective use of visualisation to drive innovation and business opportunities. The forum encourages those working in the field of visualisation and virtual reality (VR) to share their expertise, good practice, hardware and software advances and application in VR,...
ODG Smartglasses and Enterprise AR Adoption
The 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas saw Osterhout Design Group (ODG) unveil their new R-8 and R-9 glasses (source post on techrepublic.com.) Acting as a complement to user’s mobile devices, the R-8 glasses are intended as a consumer device, whereas the R-9 glasses target prosumer and light enterprise AR users. A press...
GE’s Sam Murley Scopes Out the State of AR and What’s Next
General Electric (GE) has made a major commitment to Augmented Reality. The industrial giant recently announced that it plans to roll out AR in three business divisions in 2017 to help workers assemble complex machinery components. In his role leading Innovation and Digital Acceleration for Environmental Health & Safety at General Electric, Sam Murley is...
VR & AR World 2017 | London, UK | June 13 – 15, 2017
VR & AR World is a three-day conference and exhibition focused on exploring the potential of these new technologies in enterprise with three major tracks dedicated to Industrial VR & AR (manufacturing, engineering and heavy industry), Service Sector VR & AR (education, healthcare and utilities) and Commercial VR & AR (retail and advertising), uniting all...
Royal Australian Air Force Using HoloLens to Experiment with Augmented Reality
The limitless applications of 3D data visualization will enable a more efficient approach to many of life’s problems. Each day, developers exploring this technology are finding new ways to solve these problems in mixed reality; 3D modeling, easier house management, spinal surgery, and forest fire management are just a few recent examples of ways 3D...