Augmented Reality, New Zealand and Tools

Many Worlds VR Debuts Immersive Content Tools

XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 19, 2022

Auckland-based virtual reality (VR) Metaverse platform Many Worlds launched its bespoke immersive content creation tools on Friday last week, which provides a digital space to create custom avatars, virtual spaces, and interactive content. Currently, New Zealand hosts many companies providing crucial XR technology.

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Snapchat Is Adding Paid Power-Ups To AR Lenses

VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Additional monetization options are on the way for Snapchat’s augmented reality Lenses. Today marked the start of Lens Fest 2022 , Snap’s annual developer conference centered around its global community of augmented reality (AR) creators. Los Angeles, look for our #DeadofNight billboard on Sunset Blvd.

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Celebrate The Women’s World Cup With New Snapchat AR Lenses

VRScout

JULY 25, 2023

To commemorate the occasion celebrated by sports fans all around the world, Snapchat is introducing brand new ways for you to immerse yourself in the excitement via a handful of new augmented reality (AR) experiences. For more information on all of the new Lenses and creative tools check out Snap Inc.’s

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First-Ever L.E.A.P. Conference Teases The Future Of Magic Leap

VRScout

OCTOBER 11, 2018

This includes new blocks, additional cubes, and a new interactive character. Take the new Recorder Cube, for instance. The unique tool allows you to record and import your own sounds for you to access at anytime. Air New Zealand Fact or Fantasy? Available now via Magic Leap World , the 1.1

Magic Leap

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

To make matters murkier, there’s also the recently-announced partnership between Google and HTC Vive to create new standalone mobile headsets for all Google Daydream-ready Android phones. AIRLINES TESTING AUGMENTED REALITY TO READ YOUR EMOTIONS. Apparently the $1.4B

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Here Come The Holograms

VRScout

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Augmented Reality will soon be more than cartoony Pokemon and Snapchat Filters (and Facebook’s coming Camera Effects Platform). DepthKit is a suite of tools that allows creators to capture, edit, and publish volumetric experiences. This will greatly enhance the artistic and storytelling potential of this new medium.

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Water Treatment Specialist Ixom Employs Immersive Training Solution From DXC

Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When it comes to enterprise use cases for virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) technology, two of the main areas of interest are training and collaboration. DXC Technology specialises in helping companies improve productivity, quality and efficiency through interactive means.

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StretchSense built an actually comfortable hand-motion capture glove

TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

New Zealand-based StretchSense, a maker of hand motion capture technology, believes virtual and augmented reality are going to replace the smartphone as the dominant way we interact with digital worlds and each other.

Motion Capture

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Building the Metaverse Community

Tech Trends VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There are of course many exciting new developments still to come but we’re now at a level of maturity in AR with enough data points to see that spatial computing really delivers a level of engagement, positive brand experience, and conversion to sale that many other media cannot provide. AR Coming of Age.

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Magic Leap’s LEAP Con 2018 round-up: all the major announcements in only one place

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The company will also launch “AMBEO Augmented Audio Lab” , an augmented reality experience to play around with spatial AR sound, mixing the real and the virtual sounds and recording the clips that you create. The popular Angry Birds game, but for immersive augmented reality. The MagicVerse.

Magic Leap

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The Future of Mixed Reality Is Much Bigger Than Magic Leap

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 16, 2016

million times on YouTube, and showed employees of the company blasting aliens in an augmented reality first person shooter. My Canadian hosts politely declined to comment on the Magic Leap news. Their concept video was viewed over 3.5 My demo afterward included a last-minute addition: RoboRaid.

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

EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

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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Celebrating the 2023 Auggie Awards and XR Prize Challenge

ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

The interactive game for a New Zealand Supermarket included social lenses, games, and recipes. “We Zappar was also up for Auggie Awards in the categories of Best Creator & Authoring Tool, Best Developer Tool, Best Headworn Device, Best in Location-Based Entertainment, and Best Societal Impact.

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Making Your Next Flight Safer and Smoother with Wearable AR+VR

EnterpriseWear

JUNE 26, 2018

Both Airbus and Boeing employ augmented reality (AR) glasses in the aircraft assembly process. While accessing real aviation equipment for hands-on training is costly and difficult, in VR trainees can practice skills in a realistic, accident-proof immersive environment with virtual parts and tools.

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Apple Reveals Improvements Coming in ARKit 6 for Developers

Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2022

ARKit includes LocationAnchors which can provide street-level tracking for AR in select cities (for instance, to do augmented reality turn-by-turn directions). Later this year the function will further expand to Auckland, New Zealand; Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel; and Paris, France. Plane Anchors.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

But the partnership seems pretty weird : the two companies have very different visions of the world, and it is not clear how they could partner in that, also because they both have their own store (Apple Store and Steam) that for sure they want to take to augmented reality. Great times ahead for augmented reality!

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.01): Facebook is very confident in Quest 2 sales, Valve is working on Neural Interfaces, and more!

The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Other relevant news. In a new interview given to a New Zealander magazine, Gabe Newell talks about the work that Valve is doing with Brain-Computer Interfaces. Thanks to Cathy Hackl, I have found an article that details many examples of this new industry , and I think you should give it a read too.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Ambarish Mitra is the CEO and co-Founder of #Blippar one of the first billion dollar “Augmented Reality” Startup from India, being a pioneer, early mover brings its own pro’s & lots of Con’s. Founder CEO of #JaduAR he is working on Building the future of musical experiences with Augmented Reality. 1- Ambarish Mitra.

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The AVR Platform and Classroom 3.0 Showcased at EduTECH Asia 2018

EON Reality

OCTOBER 11, 2018

With a focus on how the AVR Platform can best be used in the education world, EON Reality’s discussion, ‘Augmented and Virtual Reality in Education: The Shift to Classroom 3.0,’ highlighted Wednesday’s offerings with a full presentation and hands-on demos of the new tools in Creator AVR.

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Celebrating the 2023 Auggie Awards and XR Prize Challenge

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

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