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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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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Magic Leap launched their twitch channel to get in touch with developers. Was it worth it?
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Testing Lightfield Augmented Reality glasses with Avegant during the Augmented World Expo 2017 in Munich. Will lightfields solve all our problems?
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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 […]
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Google watching WWDC with Apple announcing ARKit: “Ooh, they launched their AR stuff without waiting for a depth sensor? Didn’t see that coming. Oh well, then let’s just //-comment out the Tango calls and make it another SDK quickly!”. This is not how it happened at Google. But feels like it. Out of the blue, Google launches their new SDK […]
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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 […]
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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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