VR/AR

The Foresight Williams Technology Fund, a joint venture between Foresight and Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE), has announced a £2.5m growth capital investment into Kognitiv Spark (KS), which is commercialising software that provides 3D data to support field service workers in remote locations.

Sokin, the next generation payments provider, is set to enable full ecommerce payments for the first time in the metaverse, allowing brands and businesses to grow from its physical store into the virtual world.

Everyone is talking about the metaverse and what it may bring. A report by Dell Technologies has suggested that 85% of the jobs that will exist in 2030 haven’t been invented yet. Statistics such as this may worry recent graduates that fret their newly-acquired degrees are void of use as they can’t learn skills which are not yet even in existence. 

The CEO of Orion Immersive, Mark Christian, will become the COO of Medical Realities reporting to Medical Realities Co-Founder and CEO Steve Dann. Mark will also join the Medical Realities Board of Directors.

Aerospace Solutions Sdn Bhd Founder and Group CEO Mike Creed has demonstrated his long-term vision by using affordable 360-degree Virtual Reality promotional tours to enhance exclusive aircraft sales.

Semiconductor giant Melexis and automotive software leader emotion3D have partnered to offer a driver monitoring system with high-precision 3D driver localisation, to dynamically align augmented reality (AR) objects with head-up display (HUD) content.

Bell Innovation is using mocap to model flight in the smart cities of the future. Bell has an 85-year legacy in the aerospace industry. Despite a rich history as one of the leaders in the field, however, the company is not content to trade on its record.

People who use virtual reality headsets as a way of passing the time during lockdown are exercising more vigorously and feeling better about life. A new study, led by the University of Portsmouth, examined the use of VR technology in adults of all ages from around the world.

In 2020, Germany’s ‘Messe-land’ was hit hard due to the pandemic. Speaking on the topic of trade fairs as part of my podcast, the trade fair expert Sylvia Kanitz from the Association of the German Trade Fair Industry (AUMA) confirmed that she had not experienced such a disruption to the industry in her entire career. Here, Publitek's Mark Herten explains more.

More than half of European retailers (58.7%) either already offer, or are working on deploying contactless self-scanning options such as Scan and Go to consumers shopping in-store (37.9% and 20.8% respectively). This is according to new research from Scandit, the enterprise technology platform for mobile computer vision and Augmented Reality (AR). The majority (68.1%) of retailers believe the availability of Scan and Go shopping is giving cu...