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Tag: Augmented Reality

  • Heads-on with Microsoft’s Hololens

    Microsoft is in the midst of doing a demo tour of their HoloLens device and I went to check it out this past Saturday. As I’ve written before, I’m a big fan of the Hololens and its augmented reality (MS refers to it as “mixed reality”) capabilities, so I was excited to actually get to…

  • Google Glass to go augmented reality?

    From Engadget: Google wants Glass-like headsets with holographic displays Not even remotely surprising – Google Glass always seemed as if it’s already 3/4 of the way there to becoming a full-on AR device. What will be interesting is if they’re able to build the capability into a similar form factor – current AR headsets are too bulky…

  • Tonight’s augmented & virtual reality tech demo

    One of Boston’s many great, local interest groups – Boston Virtual Reality – held a tech demo meetup this evening featuring two hardware developers in the burgeoning fields of augmented & virtual reality – Meta and Leap Motion. Before I tell you more, a quick sidenote to define these fields: virtual reality (VR) has, of course, been around in various incarnations for…