VR/AR

It has been announced that Leybold, a German company of the Atlas Copco Group, is the first vacuum pump manufacturer to test the diverse application possibilities of Augmented Reality. While executing tasks, service technicians obtain useful additional information and graphical documentation, partly in 3D. Leybold plans to extend the scalable AR apps to other product areas such as training, repair and maintenance purposes. 

A free Virtual Reality (VR) experience is being offered by Altra Industrial Motion to all stand visitors at this year’s HANNOVER MESSE. The mechanical power transmission specialist has launched the ‘Altra Virtual Environments’ app for download to smartphones – everyone who downloads the app prior to the show will be eligible to claim a free pair of VR glasses at the Altra stand. The app delivers an immersive, 360°...

  The retail landscape of the future is an interesting topic, with all sorts of new technologies becoming more popular what does that leave in store for the future of retail? Specialist Software-as-a-Service provider BRIDGE published some intriguing predictions.

Hot off the press! By utilising excess heat from data centre servers together with the latest technology, you can now experience the world’s first data-driven sauna. Sauna goers can muster up a sweat when people all around the world are surfing the web, searching databases and using cloud services. The Finnish-Swedish company Tieto stays true to the legacy of the sauna tradition and never misses an opportunity to slip out of the c...

A partnership has been set-up between Tridonic, EON Reality to develop an Augmented Reality control and provisioning interface for Tridonic’s IoT enabled industrial lighting solution, net4more. The AR application was demoed at CeBIT as part of Tridonic’s keynote address, ‘Lighting as the backbone for the Internet of Things’.

Theorem Solutions of Tamworth, Staffordshire, UK are excited to be exhibiting as a Gold sponsor at Develop3D Live 2017, stand #VR3 – the Virtual Reality Zone (in the Mead Gallery). Taking place on 28th March 2017 at Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick University, Develop3D Live is the perfect opportunity for us to preview our latest Multi-Device Visualisation Experience Application for:

These days, AR is an indispensable part of the process of digitalisation for companies and researchers alike. Visualising objects in virtual form saves costs, time and effort. This is because AR enables the precise visual and spatial visualisation of invisible characteristics and projects directly in their actual environment. Companies and research facilities in Saxony-Anhalt are working both on and with AR solutions.

When Apple launched the first iPhone back in 2007, controlling industrial machinery and large plants via a touch-screen was unthinkable – in the meantime this has become a matter of course though. It is therefore plain to see, even without virtual reality glasses, that augmented reality, which is becoming more and more common in the private sector, will also become the standard in the professional sector.

  Navdy, the world’s first augmented driving device that harnesses the power of Augmented Reality (AR) to project information as a transparent image directly in the driver's line of sight, for an all-new driving experience, has now launched in the UK.

“Why shouldn’t people be able to teleport wherever they want?” asked Palmer Luckey. Now they can – in virtual reality, thanks to his design of Oculus VR, a high definition virtual reality head-mounted display. They can visit their dream travel destinations or explore completely dreamt up worlds. Using Google’s low-cost Cardboard headsets, a child in Africa can go on a virtual field trip. And Microsoft has just taken ...