When Apple released the first public version of its ARKit API, I admit that I was gushing about it. I’m not sorry in the least however, since it was without a doubt the biggest leap in mainstream consumer AR so far. While other AR leaders, like Microsoft and Google, were messing around with expensive hardware-based … Continue reading Apple Doubles Down with Announcement of ARKit 2.0
Remember Leap Motion? They are a tech startup that got going back in 2010. The Leap Motion tracking module is was (and still is) one of the most exciting and affordable hand and object tracking technologies I’ve seen. The original idea was to use it as a replacement for your mouse. You could use your … Continue reading North Star Open Source AR HMD Announced By Leap Motion
I’m not sure if any of the people who bought a Vive stopped to think that it wasn’t “pro” enough for them, but HTC went ahead and made the Vive Pro anyway. This new, more expensive HMD has a lot of technical improvements over the model meant for the plebs of the VR world, but … Continue reading The Vive Pro’s AR Abilities Just Got Augmented
With the launch of iOS 11 comes the sweet, cold embrace of Apple ARKit and the many, many applications champing at the bit to be downloaded to your phone or tablet. Visiting the app store today feels like walking down the strip in a seedy part of a town like Amsterdam or Vegas. From every … Continue reading ARise Review: Of Backache and Brilliance
With the release of iOS 11 the promised launch of ARKit has also finally come. It was with some measure of trepidation that I said yes to the upgrade, since the last major iOS release soft-bricked my iPad. Yet there are just too many neat new goodies in this latest iOS version to wait on. … Continue reading It’s Happening: The Apple ARpocalypse is Here
Can you believe that it’s been 10 years since since the first Apple iPhone launched? It still seems that the big fruit company crashed into the phone industry recently, but we’ve come a long way from that first smartphone which has been copied endlessly since. It’s easy to forget that, when the first iPhone launched, … Continue reading Finally Here’s the iPhone X: Apple’s AR Flagship
When Facebook first bought Oculus, the first premier VR headset maker for the consumer market, a lot of people were skeptical about their decision. After all, this was before consumers had a real chance to engage with VR in a meaningful way and there was no guarantee that the technology would take off. Today VR … Continue reading Facebook Also Wants to Own the AR Market with their Smart Glasses
These days marker-based augmented reality is pretty much a mature technology. It’s something every smartphone with a camera and a middling spec sheet can do. As we move to advanced markerless, machine vision AR and MR systems no one is really expecting for the old approach to get any innovation. Which is why the release … Continue reading Merge VR Releases Eccentric AR Cube
Markerless AR, augmented reality that does not require a special object or image to work, is the holy-grail of consumer AR technology. We’ve seen that future with the amazing (yet stupidly-expensive) Hololens. When it comes to consumer-grade markerless solutions, well there really aren’t any. Being markerless is not the only trick the Hololens has either, … Continue reading The Mira Prism is a Super-affordable Take on the Hololens
They say that to truly successful, you need the freedom to fail. So it’s no wonder that Google is such a giant success. When you look at the many gigantic flops that the company has produced over the years you can’t help but marvel at audacity some of them have had. Among these few have … Continue reading Google Glass Rises from the Grave, but is It Undead or Unkillable?
