VRScout
JANUARY 5, 2020
While commenting on the recent trend of major corporations such as Apple dipping their toes in the AR market, Furukawa expressed Nintendo’s own interest in exploring the rapidly-growing technology: Image Credit: Radomir Tinkov, Nintendo. We are currently researching what interesting ways we can utilize it.”.
AR Insider
JUNE 23, 2021
Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. It was acquired by Facebook in 2011, then mostly faded away. Major AR development platforms offer AR object persistence — Google Cloud Anchors , Apple GeoAnchors , Microsoft Spatial Anchors — that don’t talk to each other.
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ARVR
JUNE 28, 2021
Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. It was acquired by Facebook in 2011, then mostly faded away. Google Cloud Anchors , Apple GeoAnchors , Microsoft Spatial Anchors ?—?that Point your phone (or future glasses) at places and objects to contextualize them. But it’s not alone.
VRScout
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Life of George (2011) . In 2011, LEGO unveiled their first fully integrated digital-to-physical gaming experience, Life of George. LEGO teamed up with Munich, Germany-based AR software developer Metaio, acquired by Apple in 2015, to bring the LEGO Digital Box to life. Who Phone Box , or H. LEGO AR Studio (2017).
ARVR
JANUARY 21, 2022
APPLE ARKIT 5 The latest version of Apple’s open source mobile augmented reality development toolset, ARKit 5 , offers significant improvements from ARKit 4. ARKit appears to have the best compatibility between software and hardware, as Apple is responsible for all aspects of their devices.
VRScout
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
APPLE’S 2011 AUGMENTED REALITY PATENT FINALLY MADE PUBLIC. First filed in 2011, the patent was published by the US Patent and Trademark Office with minimal changes. Using a digital compass, accelerometer, and GPS, this augmented reality app could provide an interactive mapping tool that incorporates the real world surroundings.
XR for Business Podcast
JUNE 23, 2020
And building those back-end tools, coding, setting up standards and everything, up to 2011. Alan: So how is IKEA using these tools now? And in 2011-2012 we did about 10 to 12,000 high-res images a year, and I would say maybe 1,500 of them were 3D. Martin: That story has been told a few times. Martin: Okay. Martin: Yeah.
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