Microsoft developing AR for military
For use in combat
Microsoft has won a $480 million contract to develop an augmented reality system for use in combat and military training for the US Army.
Get ready for extended reality
In case your Virtual and Augmented reality is not doing it for you
While Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have become more prominent in our everyday media, a new umbrella term that encompasses both is now being touted.
Microsoft announces AR and mixed-reality software
HoloLens for businesses.
Microsoft announced new AI and mixed-reality applications for its Dynamics 365 online business software so that it can use its AR HoloLens for businesses.
High Fidelity VR attracts investor interest
Might be the new Second Life
High Fidelity a social VR startup founded by one of Second Life’s original creators is scoring investment cash.
Qualcomm XR1 is the first XR platform
VR meets AR in future 10nm chip
Qualcomm has introduced a brand new platform called Snapdragon XR1, dedicated to Extended reality (XR) at the Augmented World Expo (AWE). It already has several customers on board.
Qualcomm demos 5G VR edge computing
Wireless VR from PC to HMD Snapdragon 835
By the summer of 2017, I started hearing the term edge computing from a lot of C level meetings I had in the computing industry and it became very clear that this is the next big thing. At MWC 2018, Qualcomm demonstrated edge computing 5G mm Wave powered VR, which is likely to become the future of VR.
Snapdragon 845 Mobile VR reference design is out
Next-Generation VR Experiences
Even the producers and screenwriters of the Silicon Valley TV show think that mobile will be driving VR, and it seems that they have closely followed what Fudzilla and Qualcomm have been saying for a while.
IBM and Unity use Watson AI for games
Star Trek Bridge Crew and AR and VR games
It is not every day when heavyweight of the Artificial Intelligence market, IBM, announces that its Watson AI will end up in the Unity engine targeting future AR and VR games.
Prototype out already
OmniVision claims to have come up with a reference design for production-ready augmented reality (AR) glasses.
Google freezes Project Tango development
Can't bear augmented reality hardware any more
Search engine outfit Google has dealt a blow to those who want to see AR everywhere by pulling the plug on its Project Tango.