KLM Engineering & Maintenance and Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) have launched a joint venture, NUVEON, for the development of new Augmented Reality (AR) products for MRO (maintenance, repair & overhaul). NUVEON will integrate AR throughout the MRO chain to improve everyday performance in maintenance.
After a successful pilot, KLM E&M and NLR are now developing several maintenance training applications using Hololens AR goggles. The advantages have proven numerous, it makes training more attractive, more effective and more efficient. Trainees are actively involved in the instruction session, get a better insight into how the system works and are better able to put what they have learned into practice.
A quartet of industrial companies, led by a big Massachusetts-based equipment company called Teradyne, announced Monday they are putting $80 million in to a Vancouver startup that makes augmented reality headsets built into hardhats.
RealWear has now raised $100 million altogether and its $1,500 devices are used by a wide variety of industrial companies, including BMW, Colgate, Shell and Exxon.
Monday’s investment is among the biggest investments in a Silicon Forest startup in many years and instantly makes the three-year-old company among the region’s best-funded young companies.
RealWear had eight local employees when it moved to Vancouver but now employs 110, including 52 in Vancouver. Lowery said he plans to hire 100 more by the end of next year.
“It may make a lot of sense for us to locate a software group down in Portland,” he said. “Software folks are very lifestyle oriented.”
The first ANA Avatar XPRIZE Team Summit was held in conjunction with the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland on May 27-29. This was the first in-person gathering of the Avatar XPRIZE teams, who met with the XPRIZE operations team, our sponsor, ANA, and our competition partners. The team summit ignited many productive conversations between teams and partners, and marked the beginning of the next stage of the competition.
“Wizards Unite,” launched last Thursday, was downloaded 4.7 million times in its first six days, according to estimates from Sensor Tower Inc. By comparison, the augmented-reality game “Pokémon Go” attracted 32 million downloads over the same period following its release in July 2016, the analytics firm said. The games share a developer, venture-backed Niantic Inc.
See the full story here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/harry-potter-augmented-reality-game-is-off-to-a-slow-start-11561636813
The White House did not say who would take part in the July 11 gathering and major social media firms did not immediately confirm they would attend. White House spokesman Judd Deere said the meeting would “bring together digital leaders for a robust conversation on the opportunities and challenges of today’s online environment.”
U.S. politicians, led by Trump, have increasingly used social media to try to go around traditional media and woo voters directly via social media platforms. Trump has said on many occasions that he would have been elected without Twitter and Facebook.
Trump, who has more than 61 million Twitter followers, on Wednesday renewed his regular attacks on Twitter suggesting without offering evidence in a Fox Business Network interview that Twitter makes it “very hard for people to join me at Twitter ... and they make it very much harder for me to get out the message.
Sidecar, the feature that lets you use an iPad as an external display for your Mac. This is something I’ve been looking to make work since the day the iPad was released, and it’s finally here – and just about everything you could ask for.
But Sidecar is already a game-changer, and one that I will probably have a hard time living without in future – especially on the road.
Falling nicely into the ‘it just works’ Apple ethos, setting up Sidecar is incredibly simple. As long as your Mac is running macOS 10.15 Catalina, and your iPad is nearby, with Bluetooth and Wifi enabled, and running the iPadOS 13 beta, you just click on the AirPlay icon in your Mac’s Menu bar and it should show up as a display option.
Once you select your iPad, Sidecar just quickly displays an extended desktop from your Mac on the iOS device. It’s treated as a true external display in macOS System Preferences, so you can arrange it with other displays, mirror your Mac and more. The one thing you can’t do that you can do with traditional displays is change the resolution – Apple keeps things default here at 1366 x 1024, but it’s your iPad’s extremely useful native resolution (2732 x 2048, plus Retina pixel doubling for the first-generation 12.9-inch iPad Pro I’m using for testing), and it means there’s nothing weird going on with pixelated graphics or funky text.
Virtuality Gaming Den opened last month and offers more than 50 different games. Those games include education, escape rooms, exercise, and meditation.
At the store, you can host a variety of events from cooperate retreats to birthday parties.
There are five different rooms inside Virtuality. In front of the store, you can get the feeling of being at an amusement park. Then, head into the racing area. There are several race car rigs offered in one room. There is a room called "virtual chamber" where four different VR headsets are set up with the various games. The "free-roam" room allows up to three different players to attack zombies. Finally, there is a room solely dedicated to video game counsels. There are six different TV screens with dozens of chairs.
A quartet of industrial companies, led by a big Massachusetts-based equipment company called Teradyne, announced Monday they are putting $80 million in to a Vancouver startup that makes augmented reality headsets built into hardhats.
Sidecar, the feature that lets you use an iPad as an external display for your Mac. This is something I’ve been looking to make work since the day the iPad was released, and it’s finally here – and just about everything you could ask for.