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Caterpillar Is Using AR To Connect Workers And Maintenance Support

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Scope AR is partnering up with the construction and mining juggernaut Caterpillar Inc. to build an AR-based live support platform. So many different devices available to us now alleviate these issues and AR gives us platforms that can show a great deal of information while also showing experts just exactly what the issues are.

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Hands-on: Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens is Further Along Than You Might Think

Road to VR

And while the Mojo Vision smart contact lens is still much thicker than your typical contact lens, last week the company demonstrated this prototype can work in an actual human eye, using Mojo Vision CEO Drew Perkins as the guinea pig. Image courtesy Mojo Vision.

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Niantic Launches Harry Potter Wizards Unite as Beta in Australia & New Zealand

Next Reality AR

The land down under joins New Zealand (who gained access to the beta on April 16), as the lucky guinea pigs for the location-based game. On Tuesday, the beta version of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, built in partnership with Niantic, Warner Bros., and Portkey Games, launched published to Google Play and the App Store in Australia.

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This Guy Is Spending A Full Week In VR, For Science

VRScout

To do this, the brave virtual guinea pig is utilizing a variety of VR headsets to fit his various needs. An Oculus Rift, for example, is used during extended seated sessions, while a HTC Vive Focus and its pass-through AR functionality is used for completing household tasks; such as washing dishes, using the bathroom, preparing meals, etc.

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Taking a Virtual Spin Around The Solar System

Tech Trends VR

After demoing it myself, I also got my seven-year-old niece try it, and even though by now she’s a bit of a VR veteran (using your family members as guinea pigs is standard practice in my household), the experience still had her shouting out in excitement, and – most tellingly – incorporating space exploration themes into her play afterward.

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Distorting Virtual Reality

Tech Trends VR

For companies looking to leverage Immersive technologies such as VR/AR/MR/XR Tech Trends offers a comprehensive range of Virtual Reality Consultancy Services. She also regularly writes for Fast Company, Ars Technica, Quartz, Wired and others. VRScout (@VRScout) June 19, 2018.

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Bringing Lego Fish and Global AR Gnomes to Life, with Trigger Global’s Jason Yim

XR for Business Podcast

Just kidding — Trigger Global’s army of AR gnomes has a more solid business plan than the Underpants Gnomes, as well as many other ventures across popular brands, utilizing mixed reality technologies to bring them to life. On the introductory to AR side of things, we have the social lenses. Step 3: PROFIT! Jason: Sure.

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