June 2015 – At the Augmented World Expo (AWE) a couple of companies were showing new and enhanced products that are actually targeting short term needs for the industry that are market ready. One of these was Epson with the latest version of the Moverio AR glasses and the other newcomer Bubl with 360degree camera….
June 2015 – At the Augmented World Expo they had a well attended session on Retail uses of AR. Besides the enterprise applications, retail has found several niche areas to start applying AR technology. For these applications, there are no AR glasses involved, instead, the display on a mobile device is enhanced with the AR…
June 2015 – Ori Inbar is the organizer of the Augmented World Expo and the Executive Director of AugmentedReality.org. After a slight delay from the scheduled time at the show while Ori was addressing physical realities of the dynamics of a several hundred attendee show logistics on opening day, we sat down for a short…
June 2015 – At Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2015 held in Santa Clara the focus this year was on realization and monetization of the long anticipated technology. One of the more crowded sessions on the first day was on the developer side. Unity was presenting on their Unity 3D for VR flow that uses the…
May 7, 2015, Neurogaming Conference, San Francisco—A panel moderated by Eric Johnson from Re/Code discussed the changing landscape of augmented reality technologies. Panelists were Stefano Baldassi from Meta, Conor Russomanno from OpenBCI, Brian Selzer from Daqri, and Dave Chavez from zSpace. The panelists were in general agreement that the line between AR and VR are…
July 2014 – Glimmer Cosmetics had a variety of products at the CosmoProf show in Las Vegas – ranging from retail for children to professional products to the first Augmented Reality (AR) products being shown on the show floor for the industry. Macky Samaco, President of firm and their four brands – Tattoo junkie, Tattoos…
May 28, 2914, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—We talked with Anna Jen from Epson about their latest Moverio BT-200 head-mounted displays. These binocular eyeglass-style displays have a number of features to enable numerous AR and display functions. The glasses are clear and have stereo imagers for AR capabilities. The coaxial displays are mounted within…
May 28, 2014, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—A panel of fashionistas and technologists discussed the merging of fashion and technology. The panel consisted of moderator Robin Raskin from Living in Digital Times, Syuzi Pakhchyan from FashioningTech, Franco Lodato from VSN Mobile, Richard Karslake from Intel, and Ageka Gail a fashion designer. Pakhchyan noted that…
May 28, 2014, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—A set of speakers discussed content creation for AR. Among the challenges are lack of standard platforms and encoding formats. Menno Ouweneel from Connectar described their offerings of content libraries and their business model. They charge a small fee for library access, and a fee for each…
May 28, 2014, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—A series of speakers talked about implementing or adding AR to art projects. The people had to overcome both technical and artistic challenges to achieve their desired responses. BC Biermann and Ean Mering from City Visions are artists who do large outdoors projects around the world. Their…