Augmented Reality
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The Familiarization Phase of Augmented Reality
Today, smartphone manufacturers like Apple and Samsung are struggling to come up with new innovative smartphones. Each year there is a phone with a slightly improved performance, slightly improved camera, and tiny software and design adoptions. However, phones and screens are the main portals of how…
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Will VR and AR make us feel lonely and isolated?
The hidden dangers of VR and AR technology Many people feel lonely. They are desperately wanting an honest partner. They wish they would have friends with whom they could great moments.
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What I learned after Giving 7560 Minutes of Oculus Rift Demos
During the last 7 weeks, I was freelancing as an Oculus Rift brand ambassador. That’s a pretty cool title, isn’t it? Well, the title brand ambassador is pretty American. What I actually did was giving product demonstrations to interested customers.
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What is Facebook’s intention of introducing another Snapchat Clone: Messenger Day?
As I opened the Messenger app today I saw a friendly face of a friend in a rectangle on top of all messages. I clicked on it and it was another Snapchat cloned feature. The same “story” feature we already know from Snapchat, Instagram, and most…
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Will the Big Companies win AR or is there still Room for New Disrupting Startups?
Today all major tech companies are investing and betting heavily on augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Some bet more on AR, other prioritize VR. Which companies joined the game so far? Is there still some room for new disrupting players?
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Shazam is Joining the Augmented Reality World Full-Time
You are watching a movie or you are in a bar and you don’t know the name of a song? Just ‘Shazam It!’. Shazam is very likely an app you already know. It is a very helpful app which listens for a few seconds to an…
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Will Apple become the leader in AR?
Just recently I wrote how Tim Cook, who is the CEO of Apple Inc., praised augmented reality technology. He said: “I think AR is that big, it’s huge.” In an interview, he publicly expressed his love to the new upcoming technology of AR. The question is…
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Controlling Smart Objects with Augmented Reality and Brain-Computer-Interfacing
Yesterday I met with Abdul, my co-founder at Advimu. He showed me the progress of his current research and development in the area of augmented reality and brain-computer interface.
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From Phone to Reality
How Augmented Reality will shift the Internet from Screens to Reality The internet partly became our reality. It does not really matter where you go or where you look: restaurants, cafés, nightclubs, concerts, business meetings, or classrooms. Everywhere you look you will see people with a smartphone…
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Augmented Reality? At least 2-5 Years To Go!
In the last days, a few news have been published which make augmented reality technology seems to be in a very far future.