Windshield AR
Inevitable…. https://wjactv.com/news/auto-matters/hyundai-turns-the-windshield-into-an-augmented-reality-nav-system
Entries by John Bourbonais
VR Sports to Corporate Training
Besides gaming, in 2015, Virtual Reality (VR) initially found a home in professional and amateur sports. Companies quickly found a training niche with a half-dozen NFL Teams and NCAA football teams. Subsequently, the same companies also discovered that sports training was labor intensive and limiting in the amount of potential sports related clientele. They shifted […]
Walmart Virtual Reality Training
A small sample of what Walmart is doing with Virtual Reality in terms of training. For those that missed the announcement, in the fall of 2018, Walmart sent 17,000 VR headgear to their 4500 stores.
Vuzix AR Smart Glasses
These Augmented Reality (AR) smart glasses are now delivering. A bit pricey at $999 but that price will come down with time. This video provides a great breakdown of AR smart glasses capabilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=188&v=FOpMx6lrsM0
Virtual Reality HIV Education
While I did not appreciate the first sentence of simply reducing being gay to having sex with other men, this is an interesting Virtual Reality (VR) application. I hope that the quantitative results are published. https://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-1788748-on-virtual-reality-game-for-young-gay-men/
Haptic Gloves
HTC Vive announced two months ago that their powerful desktop based Virtual Reality headgear has gone wireless. Keep wireless in mind when watching this video..
Pizza Hut Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality (AR) typically launches from a GPS coordinate (Pokemon Go) or an “Object Tracker.” An Object Tracker can take the form of about any object including: artwork, a magazine page, a logo, a tool, an automobile, a piece of clothing, or a pizza delivery box. This article describes how the Pizza Hut app launches […]
Body Suit for VR/AR
There have been gloves in beta test but this is the first VR/AR body suit hitting the market. I suppose it will come in S, M, L, and XL. https://interestingengineering.com/teslasuit-brings-virtual-reality-to-a-new-level-not-just-for-gaming
Walmart VR Retail
In February of ’18, Walmart bought a small start-up VR company. Here’s their first public effort… https://www.forbes.com/sites/billhardekopf/2018/08/21/walmart-files-patents-for-at-home-virtual-reality-shopping/#61281c3c2685
June ’18 Newsletter
If you have been sitting out of the Virtual Reality evolution, and most of you have, here is a breakdown on what has transpired over the past four years. In one word, “Facebook.” Although VR has been around for decades, it was the evolution of computing power in both smart phones and PCs and Facebook’s […]