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SIGGRAPH 2019 Conference Will Feature Four World-Premiere VR/AR Experiences

VRScout

Magic Leap, Disney, and Epic Games are bringing their A-game to the annual tech conference. City of Sparkles. City of Sparkles – Through using authentic Twitter messages, City of Sparkles portrays storytelling through a virtual reality experience in New York City and San Francisco.

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Alteon Reveals 3D Content Platform amid Apple WWDC Event

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The platform will provide metadata, meta tags, user permissions, and other file details for quick access to key data. New Alteon Hires Push XR Ecosystem Growth The news comes shortly after the New York City-based company appointed Brian Meaney to Head of Product.

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Vuzix Medical Use Cases Show Value of AR Smart Glasses

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Empirical data from Vuzix’s collaborations and ventures has led to a series of reports evidencing respective use cases for its technologies. With our smart glasses, they can get an expert from New York City, San Francisco, or [Baltimore-based] Johns Hopkins to join the theatre experience.

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XR Today Guide: What is Augmented Reality?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Simply put, AR allows its users to supply digital overlays of data, creative content, or holographic images with unlimited potential. AR and applications designed for it provide sensory information to users with spatially-anchored data. Data linked to specific positions in the physical world come to life with AR technologies.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Magic Leap. For a secretive company, we can learn a lot about Magic Leap from their patent filings and acquisitions, namely that they launched without a clear path to executing their vision. In April of last year Abovitz landed himself on the cover of Wired magazine with what was dubbed the Magic Leap “photonic chip.”

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The New 3D Apple Arriving at WWDC

Robert Scoble

Either way, what this means is a computer somewhere else in the world can change the data on the cube, or show users what my street looks like. So developers can leave data literally on any surface or, even, the air around you. It brags that its new platform is an “operating system for the world.” Go even further.

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Getting — and Keeping — Your Attention in XR, with LumiereVR COO Alexander Haque

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: Today’s guest is Alexander Haque, the founder of RetinadVR, whose mission was to help pioneer virtual and augmented reality through powerful data. Our mission was, as you said at the beginning, was to bring VR analytics and data to virtual reality. RetinadVR was acquired recently by LumiereVR, in July 2018.