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...
SentiAR, Inc. Awarded $2.2 Million Federal Grant to Advance AR Cardiac Hologram Research
SentiAR $2.2 Million Federal Grant to Advance AR Cardiac Hologram Research A panel of cardiologists, engineers, and other experts have given SentiAR, Inc.’s augmented reality (AR) platform an exceptional peer review, leading the National Institutes for Health (NIH) to award SentiAR a prestigious research grant to advance its work to revolutionize the operating room with AR software designed to improve visualization in cardiac...
Design Interactive and Atheer Partner to Release AR Solution for HoloLens: AUGMENTOR
Design Interactive and Atheer Partner to Release AR Solution for HoloLens: AUGMENTOR Design Interactive, Inc, a virtual, augmented and mixed reality development firm and Atheer Inc., the leader in industrial enterprise augmented reality solutions, are excited to announce the launch of their first joint product: AUGMENTOR™ powered by Atheer AiR™ Enterprise. It brings together the AUGMENTOR™ purpose-built augmented reality...
AfterNow Prez Lets You Create AR Presentations Using the HoloLens
AfterNow Prez Lets You Create AR Presentations Using the HoloLens AfterNow Prez is a new presentation tool created using cutting-edge mixed reality technologies that allows anyone to create immersive and compelling presentations that are memorable. It’s perfect for sales demos, impactful marketing engagements, and hands-on tutorials. Upload 3D models, images, and videos to a web portal, then physically place them in the real world via...
AR/VR Developers Can Now Easily Import and Use 3D CAD Data
HOOPS Visualize 2018 SDK Supercharges AR/VR Development using CAD Data Tech Soft 3D, leading provider of development toolkits to the engineering software industry, today announces the release of HOOPS® Visualize 2018 software development toolkit (SDK), the gold standard graphics engine that powers hundreds of successful engineering applications worldwide. HOOPS Visualize 2018 enables full 3D viewing for AR and VR applications, full...
Mirra Announces Launch of Mirra AR Viewer for iOS
Mirra Announces Launch of Mirra AR Viewer for iOS Founded in 2016, Mirra is a design tool that allows anyone to create and publish professional quality AR and VR experiences – without 3D expertise and without code. Available starting today, the Mirra AR app for iOS lets you view and explore the incredible augmented reality and virtual reality experiences created with Mirra. “What’s amazing about our platform is that you can design an...
Partnership Between Flex and Atheer Will Kickstart Shipments of Enterprise AR Solutions
Partnership Between Flex and Atheer Will Kickstart Shipments of Enterprise AR Solutions The impact of partnership – which combines Atheer’s unique, patented AiR™ technologies and Flex’s intelligent product design, manufacturing and logistics expertise to boost AR hardware market – is now becoming clear. It’s been less than three weeks since the announcement by international Sketch-to-Scale manufacturing giant Flex Ltd. of an Augmented...
ARwall Captures VFX Composites In-Camera with AR
ARwall Captures VFX Composites In-Camera with Augmented Reality (AR) “ARwall Showcase Opens, Demonstrating Spatial Imaging Technology through January in LA” AR spatial imaging company ARwall is currently presenting their state-of-the-art augmented reality (AR) solution–geared toward filmmakers and content creators–from their LA-based Phase 2 studio. ARwall technology captures live, in-camera VFX composites...
Announcing the ASUS Windows Mixed Reality Headset in North America
Announcing the ASUS Windows Mixed Reality Headset in North America ASUS today announced the ASUS Windows Mixed Reality Headset, the futuristic innovation that lets users explore exciting new virtual worlds. Its unique and innovative design, featuring a beautiful 3D pattern and a comfy weight-balanced construction with premium antibacterial cushioned materials, means it’s not only stylish but also supremely cool and comfortable...
Quantum Storey Introduces AR/VR VR Books at CES
Quantum Storey Introduces AR/VR VR Books at CES The Quantum Storey Company, publisher of the World’s First VR Book series, Operation YOU®, today announced its participation at Pepcom’s Digital Experience! to be held on Monday, January 8 at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. During the three-hour media event, members of the press can experience the self-directed action of this next generation of storytelling through the...
LetinAR to Unveil AR Optic Lens at CES 2018
LetinAR to Unveil AR Optic Lens at CES 2018 A pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses to be unveiled are expected to cause no dizziness even after using them for a long time. LetinAR Co., Ltd. (“LetinAR” or “The company”), a professional AR technology company, is anticipating the CES 2018 exhibition of a groundbreaking AR optical solution, and its smart glasses armed with it. Humans perceive the distance to the...
Epson AR Glasses and Sensics Collaborate for Cross-Platform Content Creation
Epson AR Glasses and Sensics Collaborate for Cross-Platform Content Creation Epson®, providers of the Moverio® augmented reality (AR) smart glasses platform, today announced the availability of a device plug-in based on the Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) platform to enable cross-platform content creation for Moverio software developers. The integration was made in collaboration with Sensics, creators of OSVR and a leading provider...
Meta, Ultrahaptics and ZeroLight Partner to Shape the Future of Digital Interaction
Meta, Ultrahaptics and ZeroLight Partner to Shape the Future of Digital Interaction In a collaboration designed to connect people more naturally with digital experiences, technology pioneers Meta Company, Ultrahaptics and ZeroLight today announced a new effort combining advanced augmented reality (AR), haptic feedback and real-time 3D visualization technologies. The three companies have created a holistic technological encounter,...
WayRay to Demo First Ever Holographic AR Navigation System with SDK Availability at CES 2018
WayRay to Demo First Ever Holographic AR Navigation System with SDK Availability at CES 2018 WayRay, a Swiss developer of holographic AR navigation systems for cars, is coming to CES 2018 to demonstrate cutting-edge technologies: NAVION gets its first ever public showcase after 4 years of R&D. For OEMs, WayRay will demonstrate the new multicolored version of the world’s first holographic AR Infotainment System for cars. Following...
ThirdEye Brings Military-Level Augmented Reality Tech to the Commercial World at CES 2018
ThirdEye Brings Military-Level Augmented Reality Tech to the Commercial World at CES 2018 Augmented reality is being used by the DoD to improve how the warfighter communicates, trains and interacts with their surroundings. Now, this advanced military technology is available for the commercial and consumer worlds, set to debut at CES 2018. Founded by Nick Cherukuri, ThirdEye Gen, Inc leverages their 20+ year pedigree developing AR...
REALITY CLASH PARTNERS WITH ESPORTS APP GIZER FOR AR COMBAT TOURNAMENT PLAY
REALITY CLASH PARTNERS WITH ESPORTS APP GIZER FOR AR COMBAT TOURNAMENT PLAY “Integration will enable players to connect, organise their own Reality Clash tournaments,win prizes and trade in-game items” Reality Gaming Group has partnered with eSports app Gizer to offer tournament play for its mobile AR combat game, Reality Clash. The partnership means Reality Clash players will be able to create and host tournaments, win...
Magic Leap Reveals First Generation Headset
Billion Dollar Startup Reveals First Gen Product About Magic Leap Magic Leap remains a mystery. Originally founded in 2011, not much is known about the company other than they successfully raised over $1.9 billion investments from several high profile investors, such as Google and Alibaba. This super secretive startup only released a few concept videos to date. For the first time, Magic Leap has released the first generation photo of...
Scope AR Delivers First Enterprise-Class Live AR Video Calling Platform for Microsoft HoloLens
Scope AR Delivers First Enterprise-Class Live AR Video Calling Platform for Microsoft HoloLens Scope AR, the pioneer of enterprise-class augmented reality solutions, today announced the launch of Remote AR for Microsoft HoloLens, marking the first cross-platform live support video calling solution available for HoloLens. Designed specifically with enterprise customers in mind, Remote AR is the company’s remote assistance...
Viscira® Capitalizes on Advances in Augmented Reality (AR) Technology
Viscira® Capitalizes on Advances in Augmented Reality (AR) Technology Augmented reality has experienced incredible growth since its introduction and is now having a transformative impact on the healthcare sector. According to a recent report by Grand View Research, Inc., the global augmented reality and virtual reality healthcare market is expected to reach USD $5.1 billion by 2025. Increasing adoption of AR advances in surgeries and...