AWE USA Conference: What to expect?
Annual Augmented World Expo (AWE) conference to open its doors for three days. Learn all you need to know and what to check out on AR and VR in Santa Clara, California.
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Magic Leap on Twitch: Augmented Reality as our house guest
Magic Leap launched their twitch channel to get in touch with developers. Was it worth it?
Continue reading »Augmenting your world without Glasses
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 […]
Continue reading »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.
Continue reading »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 »Google’s ARCore attacks Apple’s ARKit
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 […]
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 […]
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