Another way to see thigs that aren’t there If you have a standard-size lamp you can experience augmented reality without any head gear—this is a new category, kinda. The Future Interfaces Group at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, have introduced what they are calling Desktopography. A projection and sensing system that allows the user to interact with virtual components on … Read more
Google brings back Glass Introduced in 2012, with a sleek design, Google Glass was greeted with mixed responses, to say the least. You can still find the original Explorer version on eBay for as low as $485. When introduced they were priced at $2,000. For the last two years, Glass has been working with a variety of companies to find … Read more
New gains in subscriptions and ARR bolster the company Autodesk had a good first quarter for their fiscal year 2018 and in fact saw several unexpected milestones. This was the last quarter overseen by the dueling CEOs, Amar Hanspal and Andrew Anagnost. Since that announcement Anagnost is in (as of June 19) and Hanspal left to seek his fortunes elsewhere. … Read more
JPR counts over 10 million AR users worldwide. A lot of people have said augmented reality (AR) is going to be much bigger than VR, but not for several years. There’s some truth to that when you include consumers in the mix, but there is a whole lot of AR going on in various forms, and counting tablets, phones and … Read more
Hovermap’s technology developed by Australia’s CSIRO enables RPAS CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) is Australia’s national research lab with wide ranging interests including robotics, agriculture, communications, mining, and much more. Their Robotics and Autonomous Systems group has developed Hovermap, which combines LiDAR and 360×360 degree sensor capabilities to capture and map surroundings. It was developed to be mounted … Read more
The shows have gotten smaller, the machines have gotten smaller, but the advances have been huge. Siggraph continues to be an enormously influential conference even as it has shrunk in physical size. In general, conference audiences are smaller (with CES being the mindnumbing exception). But it's not just that conferences have become smaller, there really are fewer people. Productivity advances … Read more
Office 365 reaches parity with traditional Office products and LinkedIn adds $1 billion in revenue Microsoft made the financial world sit up and take notice. The company reported revenue of $23.3 billion, a 13% increase over last year, with net income coming in at $6.5 billion, a shocking 105% increase. Satya Nadella told investors, “innovation across our cloud platforms drove … Read more
You’d wear them if they didn’t make you look like a dork The power and promise of augmented reality for consumers is too powerful and promising to ignore. Google Glass got a lot of people’s attention, but failed due to its attention-grabbing construction, and high price. Pokemon quickly educated the world on what AR could do, and make it a … Read more
Owning their own market ecosystem doesn’t hurt Adobe continues to make history as it transforms its business model. The company declared the transition to subscriptions complete last year as its revenue reached parity and then surpassed its revenues pretransition. CEO Shantanu Narayen has pledged to continue to try and convert existing perpetual license holders and create new customers with new … Read more
And the emerging market is exploding The AI market is going to be the biggest, most exciting thing to happen since the introduction of the PC. AI, like VR, AR, and IoT isn’t something new. It’s a technology that has gone through the Practicality gap and emerged reborn, revigorated, and reclaimed. AI, the term, was coined by John McCarthy, a … Read more
Can we finally say the emperor is naked, and move on? The fact that I am not happy with the state of affairs in VR today is probably not news. But, what you are reading are the bitter words of a disappointed lover. Here’s what we have for VR today: A heavy mask that becomes uncomfortable and sometimes … Read more
There are basically two types of organizations in the computer and mobile industry, device makers who are, to the extent they can be, vertically integrated, and component or IP suppliers that offer their product or technology across several vertical product types to the device makers. Apple falls into the former camp and it seems to be trying to strengthen its control … Read more
