augmented reality news & blog
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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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 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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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 […]
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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! […]
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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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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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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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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 […]
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