News: Google Developer Days Sheds Some Light on ARCore
During Google Developer Days, taking place now at the ICE Congress Center in Krakow, Poland, an introductory session on ARCore provides some insights on how the platform operates.
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Market Reality: Ericsson Ventures Invests in Matterport
Influenced by the growth of augmented and virtual reality technology as well as 3D computer vision, Ericcson Ventures invested in Matterport, whose hardware and software help companies create AR/VR experiences.
News: Cross-Platform Diamonst AR RPG Is Pokémon Go on Steroids
Zenko Games makes no apologies for its influences. In fact, they cite them explicitly in their own promotional materials for Diamonst AR.
Brief Reality: New Game Underverse Takes a Stab at the Pokémon GO Gaming Model
This week, augmented reality spawns in the world of online role-playing games with a soft launch down under from an indie game developer. Meanwhile, in Asia, another startup wins a coveted award for its AR headset. Finally, an established player in the mobile AR touches up its feature set with an app update.
News: Windows Holographic Lands in Windows 10 Insider Build 14971
Windows Insiders running Build 14971 of Windows 10 in the Fast Ring can now look for the "Windows Holographic First Run" app to check to see if their PCs are up to the task of running Windows Holographic. It won't detect your VR headset yet, but at least you'll be able to see if your computer will be compatible.
News: The Mixed Reality Continuum Shows Exactly What Lies Between Physical & Virtuality
We've explained the differences between mixed, virtual, and augmented reality through old-fashioned text and infographics, but in a rapidly-changing environment that leads to even more terms, it's best to think of all these realities in one simple way—as a continuum.
News: Enflux's Smart Clothing Lets the VR User Control Their Avatar Just by Moving
While Leap Motion and Microsoft are looking to capture natural human motion with cameras, Enflux figured out how to do it with a shirt and pants that feel completely natural.
How To: Using the automix feature in Virtual DJ
Automixing in Virtual DJ is basically a jukebox function that will attempt to mix two songs together, without you having to do it manually. Discover how it works in this video. Download a free trial of Virtual DJ and start mixing.
How To: Navigate the basic features of Virtual DJ
Virtual DJ is a powerful disk jockeying tool, that allows you to digitally manipulate multiple tracks at once. Learn the basic features of the tool in this video. Download a free trial of Virtual DJ and start mixing.
How To: Make a green environment spinner game
Check out this video tutorial from the Homemade Game Guru for a new idea in making the clean-up of pollution, emissions and litter more enjoyable for everyone. This video will take environmentalism and make it into a game anyone can make from home. So, see how to make a green environment spinner game.
News: This Children's Hospital Uses HoloLens & Augmented Reality to Calm Young Patients During Medical Procedures
While numerous examples exist of hospitals deploying the HoloLens to assist doctors, surgeons, medical professionals, and students while treating patients, California's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford is actually using the augmented reality headset to improve the patient's experience.
News: Mozilla Wants to Make Firefox Reality Your Web Browser for Augmented & Virtual Reality Headsets
Before Google Chrome entered the scene and subsequently dominated the market, Firefox trailed only Internet Explorer as the most popular web browser. Now, Mozilla has its sights set on a new opportunity to revive its browser for immersive experiences.
News: Facebook Debuts Image Recognition in Camera AR with 'Ready Player One' & 'A Wrinkle in Time' Poster Promos
Despite the wide availability of markerless augmented reality experiences for mobile devices, there is still a market for scanned triggers for content, as evidenced by the new image recognition capabilities on Facebook's Camera AR platform.
News: Augmented Reality & VR Take Flight in New Airbus iPhone App
While flying can be a frustrating and sometimes nerve-racking experience, Airbus is banking on augmented reality features in its new iflyA380 app for iPhones and iPads to help passengers learn to love the ordeal.
News: Google Unveils Visual Positioning Service for Tango
At the Google I/O keynote presentation today, Clay Bavor, Vice President of Virtual Reality for Google, shared a number of new initiatives in virtual and augmented reality. This included new services for the Tango platform called visual positioning service, or VPS.
News: Jeep's New AR Experience Lets You Interact with a Car That Isn't Actually There
Jeep has now jumped on the AR-retail trend with their introduction of the Jeep Compass Visualizer. Customers can now view and customize a Jeep Compass to their liking, all without a real Jeep even present.
News: HoloFlight Turns Flight Data into Cool Mixed Reality Visualizations
Data visualization has many applications in virtual and mixed reality, since a third dimension literally adds important depth to the represented information. A new app called HoloFlight is a good example of this, combining flight-tracking data and the Microsoft HoloLens to surround you with a look at every plane in the sky.
News: HoloTube Brings YouTube to the HoloLens, but It Needs to Be Way Better
HoloTube, a new unofficial YouTube app for the Microsoft HoloLens, brings a whole bunch of new content to the mixed reality headset. While it's nice to have, the experience feels focused on quantity, not quality. HoloTube has a simple interface most people will recognize. You get a page of video categories, and as you drill down through each option you're presented with videos to watch. You can view regular, flat videos on the wall (or wherever you like)—which has its merits.
News: Oculus Rift Preorders Finally Begin on January 6th
Virtual reality technology company Oculus VR announced that it will begin accepting preorders for its long-awaited Oculus Rift headset beginning Wednesday, January 6th, at 8 a.m. Pacific time.
How To: Create Multiple Desktops in Windows 10
Linux and Mac users have long enjoyed the use of multiple virtual desktops to free up clutter on their home screen and keep individual workflow environments separated, but Windows users have always been stuck with one solitary desktop.
How To: Use Combinator virtual instruments in Reason 5
Learn all about Combinator controller instruments within Reason 5. This official video guide from James Bernard of Propellerhead will teach you everything you'll need to know. Whether you're new to Propellerhead's virtual music studio application, Reason, or their newer DAW app, Record, you're sure to find much to take away from this brief video software tutorial.
How To: Increase your computer's low virtual memory
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to increase a computer's low virtual memory. Begin by clicking on the Start menu. Then right-click on My Computer and select Properties. Then click on the Advanced tab and click on Settings under Performance. In the Performance Options window, click on and Advanced tab and click on Change under Virtual Memory. Now select your hard disk and check Custom Size. For both Minimal Size and Maximum Size, set it at 2500 MB. Finish by clicking on Set and OK. U...
How To: Increase the virtual memory in a Windows XP computer
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to increase the virtual memory in a Windows XP computer. Begin by clicking on the Start menu. Then right-click on My Computer and select Properties. Now click on the Advanced tab and click on Settings under Performance. In the Performance Options window, click on the Advanced tab and click on Change under Virtual Memory. Change the Initial Size to 3000 and Maximum Size to 5000. Finish by click on Set, press OK and restart your computer. This video wil...
How To: Set up Virtual DJ with two separate sound cards
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to set up Virtual DJ with two separate sound cards. Users may choose to use a proper PCI or USB sound card. Begin by the USB card. The drivers will already be on your system. Now open the Virtual DJ program and open the Settings. In the Sound Setup tab, click on the Output drop-down menu and select HEADPHONES. Next, click on the Sound card drop-down menu and select 2 CARDS. Now click on Apply and OK. This video will benefit those viewers who enjoy mix...
How To: Change your Windows virtual memory settings
Follow this video to help you change the settings of your virtual memory on your computer. Click Start and then right click on My Computer and select Properties. A window will come up. Click on the Advanced tab,. In the first section there is a part named Performance. Click on the Settings button of this section. Another window named Performance Options will open. Click on the Advanced tab of this window. In the bottom part of this window there is a section titled Virtual memory. Click on the...
How To: Create a Post-it note in Photoshop
Now, instead of leaving Post-It notes on a monitor screen, you can create virtual Post-It notes in Adobe Photoshop! This is a quick tutorial for the intermediate to advanced user of Photoshop, showing you how to create a square, yellow graphic that looks strikingly like the Post-It notes you can find at office supply stores! Add to your website, incorporate in PowerPoint presentations, or use wherever you see a need for a virtual sticky note!
How To: Create a 3D outer-space environment in Papervision3D
See how to create a three-dimensional outer-space environment for your Flash games in Papervsion3D. Whether you're entirely new to 3D Flash design or a seasoned developer merely looking to better acquaint yourself with Papervision3D, you're certain to be well-served by this free video tutorial from the folks at Lynda.
How To: Create a space environment within Adobe After Effects
In this clip, learn how to take advantage of Adobe After Effects built-in noise plug-ins to create an outer space environment. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular motion graphics and compositing software or a seasoned video professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various features and filters, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.
How To: Create and work with environment maps in Blender 2.49b
A quick tip on environment maps in Blender. Blender 2.49b. Whether you're new to the Blender Foundation's popular 3D modeling program or a seasoned graphic artist just interested in better acquainting yourself with the application, you're sure to be well served by this free video tutorial. For more information, including detailed instructions, take a look.
News: Mastercard Develops Mobile AR App to Explain Rewards & Benefits to Cardholders
It's a good sign for any emerging technology when one of the leaders of an industry adopts it. So when Mastercard, a brand so recognizable that it dropped its name from its logo at CES last year, decides to develop a mobile augmented reality app, the moment is a milestone for the AR industry.
News: US Navy Using Magic Leap AR Technology to Improve Warfare Training
In recent years, the US military has been utilizing augmented reality as a training tool, giving officers and soldiers an opportunity to train and hone their decision-making, tactical efforts, and weapons accuracy via virtual scenarios.
News: Nissan Augmented Reality Concept Assists Drivers in Detecting Unseen Obstacles
While the technology companies continue to drive forward with autonomous vehicles, Nissan's vision of the future of self-driving automobiles lies in a cooperative experience between human and machine, facilitated by augmented reality.
News: Caltech Researchers Use HoloLens to Give Directions & Object Identification to the Visually Impaired
When computers have vision but people don't, why not have the former help the latter? That's the gist behind the Cognitive Augmented Reality Assistant (CARA), a new HoloLens app developed by the California Institute of Technology.
News: Google Finally Releases ARCore 1.0 for Android Users, Adds Google Lens to Photos App
In one of the worst-kept secrets of the upcoming Mobile World Congress, Google has officially released ARCore on the Play Store for owners of the latest flagship Android smartphones.
AWE 2017: Rounding Up All the News from the Augmented World Expo
The Augmented World Expo (AWE), the biggest event for augmented, virtual, and mixed reality companies, developers, customers, and connoisseurs, is happening right now. You know what that means for us here at Next Reality? Companies presenting and exhibiting at AWE are releasing news like crazy.
News: Studio 216 Constructs Architectural Visions in Mixed Reality
Architects are natural candidates to be early adopters of mixed reality. Their trade consists of not only designing buildings and spaces, but also presenting those designs to clients, who then decide that their vision is worth spending thousands (if not millions or billions) of dollars to build in reality.
How To: Create and share a virtual scrapbook online with Scrapblog
In this video tutorial, we learn how to create and share digital scrapbooks with Scrapblog, a new virtual scrapbooking platform. For more information, including a complete demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started creating your own scrapbooks online, watch this how-to from the folks at popSiren.
How To: Create and share virtual mixtapes over Tumblr with Tumbltape
In this video tutorial, we learn how to create and share virtual mixes with Tumbltape, a new, Tumblr-centric replacement for the late (and much lamented) Muxtapes. For more information, including a complete demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this how-to from the folks at popSiren.
How To: Use the hidden features of the Apple iPad virtual keyboard
In this clip, you'll learn a trick for accessing special characters from the Apple iPad's virtual keyboard. It's an easy process and this video presents a complete guide. For more information, including a full demonstration and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this helpful home-computing how-to.
How To: Emulate Windows XP on a Microsoft Windows 7 PC with Virtual PC
Want to simulate XP on a Win 7 computer? With Virtual PC, it's easy! So easy, in fact, that this home-computing how-to can present a complete overview of the process in just under five minutes. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using this trick yourself, watch this video guide.