(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
Big projects need big solutions: AECOM stays with the plan for its infrastructure projects with the help of established BIM practices at the company. (Source: AECOM) There probably is no good time for a pandemic, but this particular Coronavirus shutdown hits the construction industry at a particularly bad time. Spring means construction, but for most of the U.S. construction … Read more
Arm introduced their latest SoC IP design, the Mali-G78, and claims that the GPU offers 25% better performance as a result of architectural, process, and other improvements compared to the old Mali-G77 2019 devices. The Mali G78 offers support for up to 24 cores, the most ever for Arm, and their new async technology improves scalability, and reduces energy consumption. Arm claims they’ve achieved … Read more
Spot checks of people at major interfaces such as transportation centers is a critically important aspect of measuring the spread, or decline in the pandemic. Augmented reality is a perfect application for making observations. The combination of fast, thermal measurements, facial recognition, and/or tagging, and data-basing is needed if socially challenging aspect of getting it under control. Several airports outside … Read more
Plessey, a developer of microLED technology for AR/MR displays in Devon, UK, said they have decided to work with Facebook to help the company achieve its vision of the next computing platform. Plessey designs and manufactures full-field emissive microLED displays, which promise both high pixel-density and high brightness. Under a new commercial agreement, Plessy’s LED manufacturing operations will be dedicated … Read more
PTC is offering a free Remote Assistance with Augmented Reality to Help Manufacturers During theCOVID19 Crisis
Finnish-based Varjo has added realtime chroma-keying and object-tracking to its XR-1 Developer Edition headset. Chroma-keying, also known as green-screening, has been used extensively in film making and broadcasting (think scrimmage line). Varjo has added that capability and is claiming to be the first company to do so for mixed reality devices. With object tracking, says the company, professional users can … Read more
If AR glasses are ever to become common accessories for daily life and work, they are going to have to be lightweight, comfortable, and indistinguishable from prescription or sunglasses. For those glasses to be really useful, they’re going to have to be powerful—able to deliver a blended view of digital information with the real world. LetinAR, a Korean company, says … Read more
Claiming to be the first 6DoF standalone passthrough video AR headset, the three-year-old, 10-person, Paris-based startup Lynx has introduced their Lynx-R1 that is scheduled to ship this summer. Introduced at the 2020 SPIE conference in San Francisco on February 3rd, the HMD uses an occluded display as a VR headset does with pass-through video for AR, making it a mixed … Read more
If you’ve been in any large city you’ve seen LED video walls. Vegas, of course, is lousy with them. Now, visualize an LED panel that you can see through. And now visualize one you can bend. So what would a room be like that was all glass so you could see outside to say a park, and inside you were … Read more
At CES 2020, Artilux will show its Explore Series, a wide spectrum 3D ToF (time-of-flight) sensor based on GeSi (germanium-on-silicon). Why is such an esoteric thing interesting? Because if you use a beam of light for a ToF 3D sensor, you have to be careful about what kind of light you use and how it will be impacted by the … Read more
Source: Oppo At Chinese smartphone Oppo’s Inno Day 2019, in Shenzhen, China, the company demonstrated their AR glasses that were capable of detecting hand gestures to control objects on the screen. In addition to the hand gestures, the Oppo AR glasses will respond to voice controls. The glasses were not tethered to a phone or a computer. In a … Read more
