Google is working on an AR headset: possible 2024 launch
Google is working on an augmented reality headset that will be run by a custom chip. The company expects that the gadget will make its debut in 2024, according to a report by The Verge. Internally, the headset is known as Project Iris.
Reportedly, Google is said to have about 300 staffers workin...
Qualcomm and Microsoft join forces for AR chips and Metaverse glasses
Qualcomm and Microsoft collaborate to boost the adoption of Augmented Reality (AR) solutions among companies. To this end, the organizations are developing new AR chipsets for virtual glasses.
Comprehensive Augmented Reality (AR) solutions for businesses have been the promise of many tech compan...
Google revives ‘Google Labs’ with enhanced functionalities
Google LLC is bringing back a newer version of ‘Google Labs,’ but it might not be what we’re presuming.
Google has brought back ‘Google Lab’ by initiating a newer version of the group that overlooks the previous long-term projects with an improved prospect. For example, a better versio...
Cisco combines Webex with 3D hologram technology
Cisco introduces Webex Hologram, combining its collaboration platform with 3D hologram technology. In doing so, the tech giant primarily aims at providing its users with a more lifelike experience in Webex meetings.
According to Cisco, Webex Hologram is the first collaboration application to use...
Facebook intends to hire 10,000 EU citizens to create its ‘metaverse’
Facebook has announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union over the next half-decade. The social media giant announced the plan on Monday, which intends to build what the company is calling a metaverse.
The concept refers to a nascent online world that facilitates communications in...
Intel is winding down RealSense to focus on its core business
Intel is shutting down its RealSense artificial-intelligence vision unit to channel its energies toward its core chip business.
An Intel spokesperson spoke to CRN and said that the company would honor current customer commitments and apply the innovations the division yielded to segment other fu...
PTC’s Vuforia Instruct streamlines product inspections
If you are a manufacturer and you have built a product, then before it leaves the factory you have to inspect it thoroughly. This is to make sure that the whole thing is put together properly and also works well. According to data from PTC, 67 percent of manufacturers still use paper for this purpo...
PTC releases SaaS applications for AR and AI-based design
PTC has released Vuforia Expert Capture and Creo Generative Design Extension. The two applications will become part of the Onshape offering on the PTC Atlas SaaS platform.
Vuforia Expert Capture is a tool for adding augmented reality applications to the work floor. PTC claims it makes it easy to...
Lenovo announced upcoming AR glasses for enterprise use
Lenovo seems to think that the real money is going to be made from bringing augmented reality to enterprises. CES kicked off today but Lenovo announced the soon-to-arrive enterprise AR glasses. They seem to be following in the footsteps of what’s been done at Epson and Microsoft.
The hardware ...
Facebook acquires computer vision startup Scape Technologies
Scape Technologies, a startup specialised in computer vision, has in all likelihood been taken over by Facebook. TechCrunch reports that the top level of the company has been replaced by Facebook employees and that it owns more than 75 percent of the shares.
The takeover would have been accompan...
Adobe and IBM iX introduce Design Systems as a Service
Adobe Systems will collaborate with IBM iX, IBM's design studio, to provide customers with what they call Design Systems as a Service (DSaaS).
The two companies have been acquainted with each other for years. IBM is the system integrator for Adobe and provides, among other things, the Adobe Expe...
Facebook develops AR glasses that can be controlled with thoughts
Facebook claims to be another step closer to developing augmented reality glasses (AR glasses) that allow people to type without having to use a keyboard. The glasses can be controlled with thoughts.
The tech and social media giant collaborates with the University of California in San Francisco, ...