After being selected as one of the finalist in the “Digital Startup” category a few weeks ago, we knew it would be very hard to compete with some of the heavy weights in the Austrian startup community including Carployee, Chatvisor, Fretello and own3d media. The jury was no less impressive as it was chaired by … Read more

San Francisco – eyecandylab, the company behind augmen.tv which enables augmented reality around video, has raised a $1.5 million seed round led by Band of Angels, Silicon Valley’s first angel investment group, with additional investments from LG Technology Ventures, an investment arm of the South Korean LG Group, and additional angel investors. The company will … Read more

After Facebook’s announcements at the F8 developer conference today, many of us are excited about finally being able to push that “pre-order now” button for an Oculus Quest headset. For those of you still hesitant to make that purchase, this article could give you that little nudge you require to get your credit card out … Read more

TUI Destination Experiences, under whose umbrella the TUI Group has bundled its activities, excursions and round trips, is testing the next generation of experiences. The world’s leading provider of destination experiences is currently conducting tests in Palma de Mallorca on the use of augmented reality on excursions and activities. > Read the full press release … Read more

Virtual Reality (VR) has proven its value for the enterprise for quite some time now, however, we are still in chapter one of our VR hardware story. New devices are being introduced to the market at a high frequency, whether it is new head mounted displays with higher resolutions, more focal plane displays, less wires, … Read more

Lots of fun going back to college today at the ‘Fachhochschule Salzburg’, only this time as a lecturer on Mixed Reality and the opportunities Augmented and Virtual Reality offer for e-tourism. Thank you all for the lively and very engaging discussions. Very smart students!

It is no secret that when Apple makes a move this year it will have a profound impact on how we consume AR in the coming years. But before jumping ahead of myself with what to expect, let me summarise briefly where we stand right now. For almost a decade AR has has had many … Read more

You, like me, were probably pretty pleased to see some of the cool tricks that the ASUS ZenFone AR was able to pull off at CES in Las Vegas earlier this month – putting virtual objects like dominos on your table to play or placing a virtual 3D model of your desired refrigerator in your … Read more

In Tim Cook’s recent exclusive interview with ABC, he gave us insight into what he thinks the “digital you” will do. He specifically mentions real-time meetings in real spaces — “this gives the capability for both of us to be very present and be talking to each other, and have other things — visually — for … Read more

The first half of 2016 has been all about virtual reality: The buzz around Oculus Rift, Sony’s Playstation VR, and HTC’s Vive have been lighting up the internet. VR is awesome and it’s ready for prime time. But now VR’s friendly brother AR stole the show – thanks to Pokemon Go, the so-called “AR killer … Read more