augmented reality news & blog
On Sunday, during AWE in Barcelona, Microsoft presented in an one hour show multiple news on their commitment to the mixed reality space. Including demo showcases with partners, Azure cloud services, new software, ah, yeah, … and the HoloLens 2! Time to compare my wishlist from last week with it and to give my virtual two cents on the news. […]
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I’m sure you are following Alex “father of HoloLens” Kipman on twitter and saw his teaser video of “something to be revealed” next Sunday during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Well, it could be the teaser for a new terminator movie, brining back mimetic poly-alloy or some freaky colorful alien-styled worm race crawling along ropes to frighten us. But most […]
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Hey everybody, hope you had a wonderful start into 2019! All the best. I sure did – also from an augmented reality point of view, I was pleasantly surprised. During this year´s consumer electronics show (CES) we not only saw a lot of VR fun (will VR glasses on my backseat help to lower my motion sickness?) or other fun […]
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Dadada, here, little computer! This is a teddy bear! Dadadada, this is a bottle! This is a skateboard, … but it is very dangeroooous! When communicating with computers and AI… we feel like “they” are still little babies, starting at zero. Also, augmented reality applications are often still too dumb to really help us out. Time to change this! A […]
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Hey everbody, in October we had the great double trouble week in Munich, hosting both – ISMAR and AWE EU – for our pleasure. I’ve been there the whole week checking out the latest demos, papers, talks and companies. After some aftermath sorting of things it’s about time to point out some highlights. Coincidental, the AWE team just published their […]
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An Introduction to Magical Worlds Finally, I had the chance to try out the Magic Leap One. Damn, it`s about time! Or would it have been better to wait longer – for the Magic Leap Two or for further software updates? Find out today in my two cents on the leap discussion. So, last days I`ve been visiting the German […]
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Hey all, I’ve been offline and on summer break. So, did I miss anything the last five weeks? Naaa, don’t think so. Or did I? Ooops, Magic Leap released their One! So, did I miss anything? Naaa, or did I? What else is coming up next? Let’s kick off 2018-Q3/Q4 brielfy to see what’s waiting ahead of us! The Magic […]
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We thought that Magic Leap planned to show their glasses yesterday, this time for real! What we’ve learned during their one hour twitch show, I’d like to comment on today briefly. Measurements distort results Mirrors and glasses distort reality. Magic Leap finally wanted to use its overdue chance to present their Magic Leap One glasses point of view to a […]
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Magic Leap launched their twitch channel to get in touch with developers. Was it worth it?
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Everybody is obsessed with Magic Leap One to ship, Hololens next edition to come, questions like when will we see a Meta without wires and a working hand tracking? In short, we all hope for Sci-Fi-styled slim AR glasses to wear everyday. But, wait a minute. Is the glasses-hype justified? Would people really want to wear glasses if they don’t […]
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