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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

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Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. In Europe, there are venues in Britain, Spain, France, Serbia (by raw play stats it’s the most popular area in the EU; don’t ask me why), and Russia. As platforms for LBAR is conceptually better Hololens or Magic Leap? Locations where you can play HADO (Image by Meleap).

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Celebrating the 2023 Auggie Awards and XR Prize Challenge

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Zappar’s Zapbox , DigiLens’ ARGO , Sony’s PlayStation VR 2 , the Magic Leap 2 , XREAL (previously Nreal) Air , and the Varjo XR 3 Focal Edition were all in the running, but the prize went to the HTC VIVE XR Elite. We’re just so happy. The award went to Verizon for The Future of Training , an XR upskilling program.

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What to expect from next-gen HoloLens

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HoloLens vNext will be launched on February, 24th 2019 in Barcelona, Spain, at the Mobile World Congress. If you can’t make it to Spain, you can follow the livestream directly on Microsoft website, at this link. I expect with this one to switch to at least 100K polygons in every Unity AR game. PT (12 p.m. ET / 6 p.m.