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Lidar for everyone

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Kathleen Maher

Didn’t it seem like we’d all be measuring playing fields, creating 3D objects, and making virtual 3D playgrounds out of ...

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PTC’s new employment arrangement with CEO Jim Heppelmann

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Ruchika Saini

Apart from this year’s extreme challenges, PTC achieved an important milestone this year. Jim Heppelmann completed 10 years as PTC’s ...

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XR has a real chance now, thanks to Khronos

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Jon Peddie

Doing what they did for mobile phones, Khronos has stabilized XR. The headline is: Khronos announced multiple conformant implementations of ...

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Catching up with AR

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Jon Peddie

Heavyweights Apple and Google beef up AR content development tools. There is nothing but good news on the AR front ...

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Varjo adds chroma-keying for realtime AR

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Jon Peddie

Going places in a headset. Finnish-based Varjo has added realtime chroma-keying and object tracking to its XR-1 Developer Edition headset. ...

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NexTech AR Solutions debuts AR advertising technology

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Ruchika Saini

Startup debuts CaptureAR to drive AR ads. Founded in 2018, and based in Toronto, Canada, NexTech is aiming to democratize ...

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Biggest 360 AR, no glasses needed

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Jon Peddie

Impactrum builds transparent, flexible LED panels that can be bent to the will of the imagination. If you’ve been in ...

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Unity announces new XR plugin framework

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Ruchika Saini

This framework will influence officially supported platforms, verified Solutions partners, and innovators.  Unity has announced a unified plugin framework that ...

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Vuzix builds adjacent business with support for security cameras

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Kathleen Maher

The company announces support for ONVIF security cameras in its Blade glasses. Vuzix is a smart glasses company with unusual ...

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Nvidia offers cloud-based AR content rendering

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Jon Peddie

AR images driven by Nvidia GPUs to your phone Nvidia has been in the clouds for ten years or more ...