The Second Coming of Augmented-Reality Glasses

Source: https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitaltrends-uploads-prod/2015/01/Google-Glass.jpg When it debuted in 2013 the Google Glass was the first of its kind. A augmented-reality (AR) accessory that sits right above one eye and gives access to emails, text ... more - arvrjourney

Art & AR: Turn any Photo into a Step by Step Drawing Tutorial

Source Hey Everyone! Today we are going to be talking about the breakdown feature in Da Vinci Eye. Using this mode, you can turn any picture into a step-by-step drawing tutorial. It does not give you lines to draw. Instead, it is more like a custom paint-by-numbers ... more - arvrjourney

How Can Augmented Reality Improve Children’s Books?

How Does Augmented Reality Improve Children’s Books? Augmented reality has been in and out of the public eye for at least a decade and has taken space in almost every industry. Can AR enter the publishing industry as well? Augmented reality has had its ... more - arvrjourney

How to build ARCore Cloud Anchor Sample for Unity

Story is written in the middle of May 2020, I’ll try to update it as the new versions of Unity/ARCore/ARFoundation come out. At the time of writing this article, ARFoundation framework, developed by Unity3D team is still not mature. Some of it’s features ... more - arvrjourney

The First No-Headset Virtual Monitor

These are strange times we are living in: dealing with a pandemic, keeping our sanity in check while trying to work from home glued to our… Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine » ... more - arvrjourney

MRTK VS INTERACTION BUILDER: Which one is for you?

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) is a reference in the world of XR interactions and UI creation for both VR and AR and specifically for Hololens. It is a solid system working on many platforms and providing various tools to help you create your XR experience. ... more - arvrjourney

On Art & Reality, II

This is a continuation from On Art & Reality I, found here. “Reality is our canvas; digital is our brush.” This is a new mantra we’re trying on for our team. What does it mean? In the mixed reality (“MR”) art world, we see “reality” as a spectrum. ... more - arvrjourney

5 Key Trends in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Careers in 2020?

Source Have you ever wondered how virtual and augmented reality is being utilized in career development? The growth in popularity of industries such as augmented reality and virtual reality is more than real. Virtual reality technology is all about the ... more - arvrjourney

On Art & Reality, I

Fluidity. Turbidity. Evolution. Stagnancy. Immobility. Death. Which do you associate with art? Good Art is the vanguard of cultural (r)evolution, moving around and over conservative bulwarks in a way that is fluid, rapid, dizzying. As time marches on, ... more - arvrjourney

Adding Product Details on 3D Models

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VR in 2020: More Than a Fad

Virtual reality has faced accusations of being a stepping stone in gaming, here for a moment, not for the long-haul, since its inception… Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine » ... more - arvrjourney

Augmented reality can do to your videos what Canva does to your photos

Create fantastic videos with your smartphone and no VFX skills Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine » ... more - arvrjourney

Addressing the 1st challenge of Designing AR Experiences i.e. User Environment

Source Simulating user environments with my own Adobe XD plugin Introduction Imagine yourself in your kitchen. The kitchen is the environment and you are the user. Our jobs as Augmented Reality designers and developers is to enhance that environment with ... more - arvrjourney

Made in Europe: 5 European XR startups at the service of art that you should know about.

Source: Evgenia.B via Shutterstock European cultural heritage is undergoing a process of transformation related to digitalisation and online accessibility of cultural material. Virtual reality is one of the technologies with the greatest potential that ... more - arvrjourney

Search is Old: Augmented Reality Search is Coming to Replace It

Source When my team started working on location-based Augmented Reality experiences a couple of years ago, I caught myself on the idea that there is so much content available on the Internet and yet, we often can’t find what we’re looking for. Sometimes ... more - arvrjourney

Augmented reality (AR) is the future of Restaurant Menu?

The human touch has become a taboo. This damned virus has given a shoulder to the whole sharing economy from transport to accommodation, inevitably passing through restaurants. Distance, mask, relationships, everything is disposable today. So how to ... more - arvrjourney

Building Cross-Platform AR Apps With React Native

Image Source: wikimedia.org Augmented Reality (AR) apps are increasingly getting popular across industry niches for the sheer usefulness they display in terms of user engagement. This is why leading mobile platforms like Apple and Google are continuing ... more - arvrjourney

RECONNECTING DIGITAL WITH PHYSICAL

Source Reconnecting digital with physical During the last 25 years, our existence has begun to split between two universes. Up until then, there was only one universe — the physical. When you wanted to flirt with someone, you winked or smiled at them. ... more - arvrjourney

Contact-less Retail Experience

Credits: https://storage.googleapis.com/ Boost Sales and Customer Satisfaction Over one billion smartphones now support Augmented Reality. And the new technology, which displays digital information over real-world environments, is predicted to be the ... more - arvrjourney

Will XR (VR/AR) replace 2D interfaces?

Source For a while, I’ve been thinking about if VR/AR (a.k.a XR) will eventually replace 2D interfaces or even a web itself. The anxiety coming from this question is one of the reasons why I jump into learning Unity 3D and C# instead of learning Javascript. ... more - arvrjourney

What I Learned Designing My First AR App

Source This winter, I designed my first app in augmented reality (AR) to help my company, Lextech, understand Apple’s ARKit’s capabilities. In my experience as a UX designer at Northwestern’s Knight Lab , I was aware of emerging best practices in AR, ... more - arvrjourney

Build your XR training scenario with Interhaptics

Source Training sessions are increasingly being used by companies particularly in VR and XR forms which allow to train people at distance with less cost. Interhaptics allows to cut dramatically the development time of a virtual training scenario. The ... more - arvrjourney

Made in Europe: How will XR transform future remote working and collaboration?

Source: ProStockSudio via Shutterstock The Covid-19 pandemic had provided a market opportunity for VR meetings and collaborative platforms. Since the lockdown started, there has been a significant increase in demand for remote working, virtual conferencing ... more - arvrjourney

The Contribution of Mixed Reality to Cultural Heritage during the pandemic

The global health emergency caused by the Covid-19 virus, in addition to having generated a profound impact on the industrial sector of our country and in the rest of the world, has profoundly affected a sector that in Italy is worth 13% of GDP , it ... more - arvrjourney

10 Trends Accelerated by the Crisis

Source The interesting thing about any crisis is that it accelerates some trends and can root those afterward. After weeks of monitoring the impact of COVID-19, we’re looking at the future and wondering what comes next. The Coronavirus crisis, isolation, ... more - arvrjourney

Stay home and make cool shit with tech

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How Mixed Reality can support Industry during the Covid-19 outbreak

Source The current pandemic situation has forced the subjects of the entire economic system to rethink work in many new ways and in no time. Even if the companies all reacted rather quickly to the changes imposed by the workers’ health protection measures, ... more - arvrjourney

Build your first VR game with Oculus Quest and Unity — Part 3 (Final)

Build your first VR game with Oculus Quest and Unity — Part 3 (Final) Source Welcome to the final part of this article series on building your first VR game with Oculus Quest, without writing a single line of code. If you have followed Part 1 and Part ... more - arvrjourney

“Virtual” Engagement has Changed Forever.

How Virtual Engagement has Changed Forever In real life business has changed drastically and now virtual engagement has become a bit of a social norm and it’s definitely for the better. So, what is next for virtual reality, augmented reality, and how ... more - arvrjourney

Retail Sales Plummet Amid Lockdown; Augmented Reality is the Solution

This article was first published on TechCrunch on May 6th… Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine » ... more - arvrjourney