June 2016 – The enterprise marketplace is seeking new support technology that extends beyond traditional IT products. One of the products making inroads is wearables. The wearable products include but are not limited to just AR solutions, but include other devices. The AR marketplace has been focused on the creation of high quality augmented reality…
June 2016 – At Augmented World Expo, the Enterprise AR session addressed some of the practical issues to adopting the new technology and bringing it into the enterprise as part of the IT flow. Augmented Reality is currently being adopted and developed for the commercial enterprise space as both an advanced visualization system and as…
June 2016 – This year’s Augmented World Expo focused on the realization in the market. Conference founder Ori Inbar and member of SuperVentures VC explained that both AR & VR are in production, and more importantly, there is content and applications to used and viewed with the hardware. One of the major advancements in the…
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 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—Robert Scoble from Rackspace talked about the confluence of many diverse trends that will enable the age of context. The growing availability of accessible content for mobile, servers, and other data sources presages a future of personalization, but these have to also consider privacy. As a waypoint…