Augmenting Your Senses: Audio AR
How could we use other senses than the vision to augment our lives and immerse into a virtual or augmented world for fun or work? Thoughts on it today.
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Testing Lightfield AR with Avegant (AWE Part 3)
Testing Lightfield Augmented Reality glasses with Avegant during the Augmented World Expo 2017 in Munich. Will lightfields solve all our problems?
Continue reading »Meta Hands-On and more on AR glasses (AWE Part 2)
During AWE EU in Munich, Ryan Pamplin was giving a talk on the Meta 2 and spatial computing. I had the chance to schedule a private demo session beforehand and will today share my impressions from the presentation and my live demo. Is the Meta worth waiting? What other glasses might do the trick and what`s next? The On-Stage Demo […]
Continue reading »Metaverse surfing – Impressions from AWE Munich 2017 (Part 1)
Hi everybody, back to normal. Back to real reality, leaving two days of fully packed AR at AWE behind. Finally I can take the time to summarize for the ones who missed it, for the ones who want to recap and point out interesting talks and demos. A first dive into the mixed reality realms from the augmented world expo […]
Continue reading »AWE Conference – Augmented Reality coming home
The Augmented World Expo AR Conference is coming home to Europe, to Munich in October 2017. That’s so great! Of course, I’m biased, since I’ve been living and working there for many years, working with lots of companies on AR, including metaio. Munich sure has been and still is a center of AR activities in Europe – and the world! […]
Continue reading »There won’t be one augmented world!
We love to dream of a cyberspace in virtual reality and the equivalent of an augmented reality to enhance our lives. But will it ever become a reality like we dreamt it up? What might stand in its way? Let me dive into some daydreaming on it today. It’s not a summer slump thing while we wait for the upcoming […]
Continue reading »World War Z – let the blind see with depth!
Today, on a lazy summer day, I`d like to think a little bit about two things on AR. First, the technological part of tracking and sensors with upcoming vendor´s fights (couldn`t resist the z-depth-buffer joke) and second, the form factor of today`s and tomorrow`s AR devices. Will we really wear glasses soon? What might be the showbreaker? Two cents on […]
Continue reading »Interview with Audi – AR, VR and a Hackathon at Digility
Today, I’m happy to publish my interview I had with Audi. I was interested in learning more about their current AR/VR activities and their plans for the Digility conference next week. Since they have a talk there and organize the before-mentioned hackathon, I wanted to give my readers some insights ahead of time. Find out about their mixed reality plans […]
Continue reading »Digility Conference July, 5-6 – Win your ticket!
On July, 5th and 6th the Digility Conference on AR and VR will open it’s doors in Cologne, Germany, for the second time. augmented.org is media partner again and today I’d like to give you the heads-up on this conference, my recommendation where to go – and you will even get the chance to win your free ticket for the […]
Continue reading »Apple betting on Windows-based AR
Apple shows their approach to Augmented Reality in iOS 11 with the new ARKit during WWDC. Stable tracking and nice visual integration included. Let’s take a closer look!
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