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Students Time Travel to Experience Christopher Columbus Cartography in AR

EON Reality

Columbus embarked on a journey to find and develop a westward route to the Far East, but instead discovered a route to the Americas, which were then unknown to the Old World. Columbus’s voyages were the first European expeditions to the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.

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How XR Fan Engagement Brings Fans Closer to the Game

ARPost

Over the years, ARPost has covered the physical nature of XR in athletics and sports a number of times – from how athletes use XR to improve their game , to how gamers can use VR sports to stay fit , to how thrilling and active a good AR team game can be for players and spectators alike. Is AR the Future of Fan Engagement?

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#1252: “Kinfolk” App is Cultivating an AR Archive of Black History with Digital Monuments & Speculative Futures

Voices of VR

There are also a number of public spaces of historical importance that have site-specific AR installations to engage audiences in the places where these histories occurred.

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Using augmented reality, Altoida is identifying the likely onset of neurodegenerative diseases

TechCrunch VR

For the past 19 years, Ioannis Tarnanas, the founder and chief scientific officer at Altoida , has been developing virtual and augmented reality tools to offer predictions about the onset of mental illness in older patients. “In this field there are two major waves. Passive digital biomarkers and active digital biomarkers.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.11): Lynx succeds on Kickstarter, Lone Echo 2 is finally launching, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Ok, after these pieces of news you probably didn’t care about at all (but let me believe you did), let’s start with the actual roundup of the best AR and VR news of the past week! But it is not public info what they exactly do: are they AR or VR? Are they connected to a phone or a standalone? Top news of the week.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Lenovo’s new AR concept headset & Disney partnership, all the VR/AR goodies at Comic-Con, Steven Spielberg’s trailer for Ready Player One is finally here, new industry landscape shows 60% increase in enterprise augmented reality, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. ALL THE VR & AR AT COMIC-CON, OH MY!