AR Optics Startup LetinAR Raises $3.6m in Series A Funding
LetinAR Raises $3.6m for Propelling Commercialization of AR Glasses LetinAR, a Korean startup developing a new optical solution for augmented reality (AR) smart glasses, recently raised $3.6 million in Series A funding, led by Kakao Ventures, Naver Corporation, DSC Investment, Korea Asset Investment Securities, and Platinum Technology Investment. LetinAR, a member company of the K-ICT Born2Global Centre, develops an optical system for...
Light Field Lab and OTOY Making the Star Trek Holodeck a Reality
Light Field Lab and OTOY Making the Star Trek Holodeck a Reality OTOY, Inc and Light Field Lab, Inc, industry leaders in holographic rendering and display innovation, formally announce their partnership to deliver the industry’s first end-to-end holographic content creation to display ecosystem. The partnership will leverage Light Field Lab’s revolutionary headgear-free holographic displays and OTOY’s ORBX Technology, the industry’s...
Vuzix Blade App seeCOLe WinsElectronic Health Record Code App Challenge
Vuzix Blade Smart Glasses App seeCOLe Wins Cerner Corporation’s Electronic Health Record Code App Challenge Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), (“Vuzix” or, the “Company”), a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, is pleased to announce that seeCOLe (see Clinical data On Lens), a health app for the Vuzix Blade® that enables clinicians to navigate and document...
MagiMask – Immersive, High Definition Augmented Reality
New AR Mask for Consumers and Developers: MAGIMASK “AR Headset MagiMask and Tracking System Is Aimed at Developers, Content Creators, and Early Adopters with a Friendly $99USD Price Point” Norwegian-based technology start-up Ludenso (formerly MovieMask) unveiled their augmented reality (AR) package for mobile devices, called MagiMask, and its revolutionary tracking system. MagiMask has been quietly in development for two...
Brainlab and Magic Leap Partner in Digital Surgery
Brainlab and Magic Leap Partner in Digital Surgery Brainlab announced a strategic development partnership with Florida-based Magic Leap, a developer of proprietary spatial computing solutions that help users enrich their real world experience by integrating digital content within their physical world. “The combination of Brainlab and Magic Leap can be meaningful in empowering physicians to improve the quality of interventional...
AUGMENTLY™ INC GIVES A FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE INSIDE AN ARMORED VEHICLE
AUGMENTLY™, INC PARTNERS WITH INKAS™ GROUP OF COMPANIES “REALISM AGENCY GIVES A FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE INSIDE AN ARMORED VEHICLE” Augmently Inc, the augmented realism agency specializing in three-dimensional/life-like AR technology and creative virtual world innovations has partnered with INKAS™ Group of Companies in Canada to bring an engaging multi-dimensional experience inside to its armored vehicle division. For more...
Arvizio Releases MR Studio V2.0 for Microsoft HoloLens
Arvizio Releases MR Studio V2.0 to Advance Microsoft HoloLens Adoption in the Enterprise Arvizio Inc., today announced the availability of version 2.0 of their MR Studio™ mixed reality software platform. The company will showcase the new features at MWC Americas, September 12 – 14, at the Los Angeles Convention Center booth S.1460 and in demos in the Verizon booth S.1302. MR Studio is an enterprise level solution designed to provide...
Crowded Cloud, MetaPipe Partnership Will Democratize Augmented Reality Content Production
Crowded Cloud, MetaPipe Partnership Will Democratize Augmented Reality Content Production Crowded Cloud, a novel network that stands to even the TV and film production playing field, has partnered with film studio infrastructure provider MetaPipe. This linkup marks the latest development in the entertainment industry’s uptake of blockchain technology. When it comes to film and television production, the same circles tend to...
AR Studio PLNAR Raises $3.9 Million in Series A Funding
PLNAR Raises $3.9 Million in Series A Funding PLNAR, the augmented reality (“AR’) solution that creates, fully measured, real-time 3D models of any room, announced today a Series A investment of $3.9 million led by InsurTech, FinTech and healthcare venture capital fund ManchesterStory Group. Additional funding comes from The Venture Reality Fund and Colopl Next, Inc. The financing will be used to fund PLNAR’s...
KT Launches South Korea’s First AR Mobile Shopping Service
KT Launches South Korea’s First AR Mobile Shopping Service KT Corp., South Korea’s largest telecommunications company, has launched the country’s first-ever mobile shopping service paired with AR technology. The Korean telecom leader’s new service is called AR Market, which gives mobile shoppers an online shopping experience that is more similar to browsing through a physical store. Shoppers can view 360-degree...
Boulevard Arts and Nice Shoes Break Down Barriers to Art with Augmented Reality
Boulevard Arts and Nice Shoes Break Down Barriers to Art with AR A velvet rope and a stern security guard that’s just itching to say “don’t touch that” are normally in between the museum visitor and a work of art. Now, thanks to Boulevard Arts, a company committed to developing arts-based experiences shared through augmented, virtual and mixed reality technologies, and creative studio Nice Shoes, art connoisseurs, educators, and...
SPEX Introduces AR Headset Platform Designed to Provide Enhanced Vision
SPEX Introduces AR Headset Platform Designed to Provide Enhanced Vision SPEX (https://spex-ar.com/), a new division of eSight Corporation, is introducing its first augmented reality (AR) headset platform providing enhanced vision to commercial, industrial and medical applications with the need for precision vision without overwriting or obstructing users’ natural vision. The SPEX™ HMD, on display at this week’s Augmented...
Meta2 Mixed Reality Demo by AZA Corporation Japan
Meta2 Mixed Reality Demo by AZA Japan AZA Corporation Japan is developing a system that can share virtual space with multiple people. It has new possibilities to release people from physical limitation. This video explains the demonstration at the Advanced digital technology expo at Tokyo Big Sight April 2018. In that demonstration two people wear meta 2. Meta 2 has wider viewing angle and resolution than holo lens. The players are...
Seerslab to Unveil ARGEAR App at AWE USA Conference
Seerslab to Unveil ARGEAR App that turns Camera feature into Snapchat Lens at AWE USA Conference Seerslab, a leading Augmented and Virtual Reality media corporation and Y-combinator’s innovative media start-up will be launching ARGEAR platform including AR SDK (Software Development Toolkit) and its AR content platform called “ARGEAR” at AWE Conference in Santa Clara, CA on May 31st, which is the biggest AR/VR conference and expo in...
AR App Curate by Sotheby’s International Realty Available on iOS
AR App Curate by Sotheby’s International Realty Available on iOS Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC today announced that Curate by Sotheby’s International Realty, the first real estate-branded augmented reality (AR) app, is now available on Apple iOS-enabled devices, iPhone and iPad. Curate by Sotheby’s International Realty allows consumers to visualize a home as their own before purchase by taking...
Augmented Island Studios Offers AR Application Development
Augmented Island Studios Offers Augmented Reality Application Development Companies in every industry and of every size are starting to realize that augmented reality cannot be ignored. As this new kind of media starts taking off, the need for development studios is on the rise. Currently, the demand for augmented reality development services highly exceeds the supply and this is naturally driving prices higher. When business partners...
Eight AR Startups Selected to Pitch 30+ Investors
Eight Augmented Reality Companies Selected to Pitch 30+ Investors Three well-known AR investment funds, GFR Fund, The Virtual Reality Fund and Super Ventures, have joined together to put on the first-ever Global AR Online Pitch Event, intended to uncover the best and brightest AR startups from around the world. Open to applicants in April, the event received 241 submissions from AR startups from every corner of the world, with...
Epson and Redrock Biometrics Bring Biometric Authentication Solution to Consumer AR
Epson and Redrock Biometrics Bring Biometric Authentication Solution to AR Headsets Using the palm of their hands, Epson MOVERIO® Smart Glasses users can now get to work or play in a flash, authenticating themselves more rapidly and accurately than current approaches. Redrock Biometrics, an innovator in biometric solutions, and Epson, a leading provider of AR headsets, have partnered to bring PalmID® to the MOVERIO Smart Glasses...
AR Company Loom.ai Secures $3M Seed Round From Samsung Venture
Loom.ai Secures $3M Seed Round From Samsung Venture Investment Corporation Loom.ai, the provider of best-in-class mobile solutions for building and animating personalized, 3D avatars at scale, today announced a $3M seed investment from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation. The new funding will be used to fuel recruiting, additional partnerships and the continued development of its fully embedded SDK solution. “We will immediately...
ODG Launches Smartglasses for Emergency Landings
ODG Smartglasses Become Perfect Wingman in Emergency Landings Extended reality smartglasses leader ODG (Osterhout Design Group) today announced SAVED™, Powered by ODG, a prototype, first-of-its-kind heads-up display (HUD) oxygen mask that incorporates ODG’s award-winning smartglasses technology to aid pilots in emergency landings if the cockpit fills with smoke. SAVED™ stands for ‘Smoke Assured Vision Enhanced Display’ and was...
Arcona Introduces AR Ecosystem with Blockchain
Arcona Launches Augmented Reality Ecosystem with Blockchain The Arcona Ecosystem is a platform designed to bring geospatial AR content and experiences to the masses built on a blockchain backbone. It is designed for everyday user interactive experience with augmented reality content, so anyone can become a landowner and start doing business within the Arcona Ecosystem in advertising, real estate, game, travel, and many other spheres...
ThirdEye Launches X1 AR Smart Glasses & Software
ThirdEye Launches X1 Augmented Reality Smart Glasses & Enterprise Software ThirdEye Gen, Inc. has started the shipping of its X1 Smart Glasses, a powerful workplace Augmented Reality (AR) mobile computing device, and AR software to enterprises and small businesses. With more than 20 years of augmented reality development expertise for the U.S. DoD, ThirdEye’s products are transforming the education, sports, media and consumer...
USA TODAY Releases AR App 321 Launch
USA TODAY Releases AR App in Partnership with FLORIDA TODAY USA TODAY, in partnership with FLORIDA TODAY, released USA TODAY NETWORK’s first augmented reality (AR) application, 321 Launch, to bring interactive space coverage to its audience of more than 110 million. Please visit usatoday.com/321launch. “With over 30 rocket launches scheduled for 2018, we’re leveraging the excitement around space as an opportunity to bring this content...
SXSW Witnesses Game-changing Mixed Reality Demo from DataMesh
DataMesh Showcased Mixed Reality Demo from DataMesh DataMesh, a leading Big Data/Mixed Reality solutions provider and Microsoft partner, brought its real-time ‘Live! MR’ solution to the SXSW Trade Show from 11th-14th March 2018 and also held a session at the ‘Startup and Tech Sector’ track. DataMesh was one of the several Chinese companies (others being Alibaba and Mobike) making a splash at SXSW, unsurprising...
Mondly Launches the First AR App that Uses Speech Recognition
Mondly Launches the First AR App that Uses Speech Recognition Mondly, one of the most popular language learning platforms with 30 million users, has released MondlyAR – the first language learning app powered by augmented reality and chatbots with speech recognition. Mondly won Facebook’s FbStart “App of the Year” in EMEA, was chosen as “Editors’ Choice” by Google Play and has a 4.7/5 star...
Reality Reflection Launches Blockchain Ecosystem for AR/VR Assets Called Moss Chain
Reality Reflection Launches Blockchain Ecosystem for AR/VR Assets Called Moss Chain Mossland is a new location-based augmented reality mobile game with a focus on real estate powered by blockchain. By playing the game users can navigate through cities, check-in in different locations and become virtual owners of various landmarks. The game uses Ethereum-based cryptocurrency Moss Coin to facilitate all sales and purchases of in-game...
REALITY CLASH EXPANDS EXECUTIVE TEAM AHEAD OFHIGHLY-ANTICIPATED ARMOURY STORE LAUNCH
REALITY CLASH EXPANDS EXECUTIVE TEAM AHEAD OFHIGHLY-ANTICIPATED ARMOURY STORE LAUNCH Reality Gaming Group has appointed Anthony Bray to head up its Operations department, as the development of its upcoming augmented reality (AR) mobile combat game, Reality Clash, gathers pace. Bray will oversee user acquisition, engagement, retention and marketing, initially focusing on the Reality Clash online Armoury store and Armoury app, both of...
Edgybees Raises $5.5 Million Funding to Save Lives with First Response AR App
Edgybees Raises $5.5 Million Funding to Save Lives with First Response AR App Edgybees, an augmented reality company that provides its First Response app for drones and cars, the First Response app was adopted by firefighters and emergency rescue teams during Northern California wildfires and Florida’s post-hurricane rescue. Edgybees just announced the completion of its $5.5 million seed round! The seed found investors included...
Serious Simulations Working on Wireless AR Display Contract
Serious Simulations Working on Wireless AR Display Contract Orlando-based Serious Simulations has been awarded a research and development contract with Melbourne-based Aeronyde Corporation to produce a wireless augmented reality (AR) head mounted display as part of key control technology for unmanned and robotic aerial vehicles. Under this contract, Serious Simulations will use its current and soon-to-be-announced patented wireless...
VR/AR Gaze-Based Adtech Token Gaze Coin Is Now Listed on QRYPTOS Cryptocurrency Exchange
VR/AR Gaze-Based Adtech Token Gaze Coin Is Now Listed on QRYPTOS Cryptocurrency Exchange Gaze Coin, a currency that provides AR/VR advertisers and creators trackable ROI by rewarding audiences for gaze-triggering content today announced its listing on leading Asian cryptocurrency exchange, QRYPTOS (a subsidiary of QUOINE). The event marks the first major-exchange listing for Gaze Coin (token symbol GZE) since its recently-completed...