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Breonna’s Garden: An AR Experience to Foster Healing

ARPost

Healing and reconciliation come in many forms, and projects such as Breonna’s Garden demonstrate how emerging tech such as augmented reality can be used to provide a safe space to process grief. See Also: The Role of Virtual Reality in the Fight Against Racial Inequity.

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Vodafone ‘Shifts the Paradigm’ from XR Headsets to AR Glasses

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Vodafone is bringing its computing connectivity capabilities to the Snapdragon-powered HyperRealityHub that it says “shifts the paradigm” from heavier XR headsets to more lightweight and affordable AR glasses.

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How the XR Community Celebrates Black History Month (Black Futures Month?)

ARPost

Microsoft’s Immersive Museum. Microsoft also created a virtual museum for Black History Month. The experience will make its world premiere at SXSW next month and will also be in Breonna’s hometown of Louisville Kentucky for her birthday, June 5. How Do You Celebrate Black History Month?

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Over 20 Use Cases of Smart Glasses, VR Headsets, and Smartwatches at Airports

EnterpriseWear

As consumers become increasingly receptive to sharing wearable-generated biometric data and are exposed to augmented reality via smartphones; ideas like replacing traditional travel documents with personal wearables and implementing AR wayfinding in airports seem less and less far-fetched.

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Top XR Stories of 2019

Tech Trends VR

The key message to come out of Google I/O this year was that the company largely abandoned its plans to push forward the development of headsets and content for VR effectively retiring the Daydream and focusing on Augmented Reality features for the Google Lens instead. Sony’s Next Move. Valve’s Long Game. HoloLens Army.