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Post-Pandemic, Augmented Reality Serves Entertainment With Its Re-Emergence

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Most people don’t know augmented reality was first created and tested in the late 1960s: by a Harvard professor, with a wired head-mounted display. Finally, after an initial boom of popularity inspired by the animated confections of Pokémon GO, augmented reality reached the lexicon of the layman in 2016.

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Infographic: Augmented Reality Landscape Q1 and Q2 2019

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The Venture Reality Fund , which invests primarily in immersive applications and games, has just released its latest quarterly update covering Q1 and Q2 of 2019. Augmented Reality is hot. The Venture Reality Fund now tracks more than 380 companies on the AR landscape, a 33% increase from 2018. Mobile AR 2.0

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Augmented Reality Boosting Customer Brand Engagement

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Although it has only recently begun to be widely adopted, Augmented Reality ( AR) has in a short time managed to gain great popularity among various industrial sectors. AR technology was invented in 1968, with Ivan Sutherland’s development of the first head-mounted display system. and definitely more fun!

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Full Sail University to Create Virtual Production Studio

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The earliest VR experiences predate head-mounted displays and instead used projectors to turn a room into a virtual environment without the aid of a head-mounted display. After all, a headset isn’t strictly required for viewing or even entering some immersive environments.

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ConjureKit AR Tool Features ‘Instant Calibration’ Tech

VRScout

Augmented reality (AR) technology lets you change the world around you by overlaying digital content that can be used to find your friends at a packed music festival, fight crime as a Marvel superhero , and bring conventional tattoos to life. ” Through this approach, users can join each other’s games via a standard QR code.

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Comprehensive Glossary of the Most Frequently Used VR Terms

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See Also: The Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Terms You Need to Know. We compiled a list of frequently used terms that are most likely to appear in: VR head-mounted display specifications; Game descriptions; Articles about VR technology ; Instructions for setting up your computer for VR experiences.

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How Can Mixed Reality Help Your Small Business?

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Mixed reality (MR) technology merges real life and virtual reality in real time. Like virtual reality , MR uses headsets or head-mounted displays (HMDs) to display virtual elements in 3D. But unlike VR, mixed reality simulations bring virtual creations to life in a physical space.