It's been nearly a decade since Google Glass landed on the scene. Still, many new smartglasses entrants remain plagued by essentially an underwhelming experience. Yes, there are already AR apps for art, directions, learning, trying on clothes, choosing new furniture, and more. But few smartglasses bring AR experiences to life. Real interactivity is missing. AR smartglasses designed for cycling and … Read more
Didn’t it seem like we’d all be measuring playing fields, creating 3D objects, and making virtual 3D playgrounds out of our living rooms by now? Phones have 3D sensors, and now Apple has added Lidar, so why can’t we have these things? It’s here now and looks like a trend that will be happening in 2021. TikTok symbolically kicked it … Read more
PTC had a good fourth quarter and a not-bad year considering. PTC’s revenues are up year over year, quarter over quarter and the company says the pipeline into 2021 is looking pretty good. All this while the world struggles with a virus that just won’t go away. PTC’s revenue was $391 million in Q4, a 17% increase over Q4 2019 … Read more
Doing what they did for mobile phones, Khronos has stabilized XR
Doing what they did for mobile phones, Khronos has stabilized XR
The headline is: Khronos announced multiple conformant implementations of OpenXR are shipping from Oculus and Microsoft. That happened because of the newly opened OpenXR 1.0 Adopters Program and open-source conformance tests, which Khronos announced was coming after launching the OpenXR 1.0 specification last year at Siggraph. Getting something this significant through all the bureaucratic and territorial fiefdoms of two major … Read more
Augmented Reality Where We All Will Live Founded in 2016 in San Mateo, CA by Dr. Kevin Zhong, DreamWorld has developed an AR viewing headset that can offer the user a virtual 4K display. Wearing the headset, one could watch a movie in an airplane or in their living room—provided you weren’t bothered by the see-through aspect of the … Read more
There is nothing but good news on the AR front as the duel mobile platform giants Google and Apple improve their mobile AR SDKs. Apple went big with the introduction of ARKit 4 through its online WWDC 2020 conference this year. Of the two, Apple is also the most hardware dependent, which is as to be expected. This year WWDC … Read more
Source: ACM Transaction Graphics Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) researchers Andrew Maimone and Junren Wang have submitted a paper to Siggraph on ultra-thin VR spectacles they have developed that use flat-film holographics for optics. The researchers propose a design for near-eye displays as a proof-of-concept device, with a lens thickness of only 9 mm (0.35 inches) and resemble a pair … Read more
In 2016, Bose made the trip to SXSW with their new plan for AR and unveiled AR sunglasses. Unlike most AR approaches, the Bose glasses didn’t have digital images added to the real-world view through the glasses, they offered additional information through speakers—a perfectly Boseian approach. These glasses unencumbered by expensive optics played audio and featured a microphone. A sensor … Read more
We are very close to having devices that are not conspicuous or uncomfortable, devices that will feel like the sunglasses or prescription lens you now wear.
(Source: Tamara Bellis) If any of you have attended any of my augmented reality lectures or read my book, you know I am an enthusiastic advocate of what I call consumer AR—AR glasses that look and feel no different than what you are wearing now. They don’t exist, but there are several examples that are close. In 2016, I … Read more
