The construction industry has emerged as a major opportunity within the AEC segment of design and engineering tools. There has been a pent up demand for new construction for affordable housing, new commercial projects, and above all infrastructure. The CAD companies serving the segment have been building just as enthusiastically enabling better communications between the home office and the trailer … 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
The Krell supercomputer (1956) There’s 500 of them! Five hundred. Do I really give a hoot? If I told you, there are five hundred top baseball players, think you’ve given a… after I named number five or six? Hell, I’d bail out after number three. I mean really, what’s a supercomputer ever done for me? But because we’re an … Read more
(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
Game engine company Unity Technologies is flirting with the idea of going public, which could happen with an Initial Public Offer (IPO) this fall. The company has been testing the waters and is reported to be working with Goldman Sachs to lead the offering. Bloomberg wrote about the company’s plans on June 3, and so has Pitchbook. Pitchbook estimates Unity’s … Read more
Autodesk has come through its first quarter with good results and the company expressed satisfaction, revealing very little trepidation over the future. The company raised revenue 20% to $886 million and reported a net income of $66.6 million. The company’s operating margin increased 10 percentage points to 28%. Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost celebrated the stability of Autodesk’s subscription-based business model … Read more
Nvidia beat Wall Street’s expectations with their financial report and saw increases from all reporting segments. Revenue for the first quarter was $3.08 billion, up 39%from $2.22 billion a year earlier, and down 1% from $3.11 billion in the previous quarter. The company’s Graphics business revenue was $1.9 billion, down 9% from last quarter, but that’s a 25% increase from … Read more
Trimble’s results for the first quarter of 2020 look almost as if nothing has happened; it looks like a reasonable first quarter for the company. The company has relatively little business in China, so they missed some of the first wave effects of the pandemic, but they’re braced for the next wave making itself felt in the second quarter. CEO … Read more
PTC reported revenues for the quarter ending March 28, 2020, and were optimistic, if guarded. The company’s revenues for PTC second fiscal quarter of 2020 were up 24% at $360 million compared to $356 million. Income was $7 million. PTC plans to be spending money developing its IoT/AR. PTC saw very little hit from adverse market conditions for its second … Read more
Hexagon’s first-quarter report for 2020 is reasonably upbeat for a company situated smack dab in the crossed eyes of several hurricanes. The company, with metrology in its DNA, interests in oil and gas, mining, and security, and GPS and ambitions in a wide range of design and engineering markets. It saw problems coming in the last quarter of 2019. This … 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
