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Varjo adds extra ‘reality’ to augmented reality with new XR-1 photorealistic headset
Finnish hardware manufacturer Varjo Technologies Oy today announced the upcoming release of its next high-fidelity augmented reality headset, the XR-1 Developer Edition. This release, announced at the Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, follows Varjo’s launch of an extremely powerful virtual reality headset, with a price tag of $6,000, in February with the VR-1. The new release upgrades its ...
Scope AR upgrades enterprise augmented reality insights platform for workers
Enterprise-class augmented reality solutions company Scope AR today announced the launch of upgrades to its WorkLink platform that offers real-time support for workers by enabling them to connect to remote experts for instruction. Field technicians using the WorkLink platform wear AR glasses that can broadcast what the worker is seeing to an expert, who can ...
Enterprise software mapping platform Crosscode raises $9.25M
Enterprise code-level software asset mapping company Crosscode Inc. today announced that it recently closed an early-stage funding round that raised $9.25 million. Crosscode’s flagship product is Panoptics, named after the all-seeing experiment in surveillance “the panopticon,” and it provides substantial visibility into a company’s software environment and needs by making it easier and less expensive to manage dependencies, ...
Wirex and Elliptic team up to combat cryptocurrency fraud
Cryptocurrency-based personal banking company Wirex Ltd. and anti-fraud security intelligence and compliance outfit Elliptic Enterprises Ltd. today announced an alliance for developing solutions for rapidly detecting fraud and other criminal activity. The two companies have been working together since 2016 and this new solution will provide customers even more comfort and security with their cryptocurrency stored ...
Oculus Quest and Rift S hit the shelves today along with 50 VR titles
Facebook Inc.’s virtual reality division Oculus VR announced today that the next generation of VR headsets will hit the shelves today. The all-in-one untethered Oculus Quest and the powerful personal computer-connected Oculus Rift S are now shipping. Both devices retail starting at $399 and are immediately available from oculus.com, as well as from Amazon and Best ...
CircleCI expands partner integrations for Kubernetes with AWS, Azure and more
Intelligent automation and DevOps software delivery tools outfit CircleCI today announced an expansion of partner integrations intended to help developer teams better manage, build, test and release applications for Kubernetes environments. Kubernetes is an open-source platform for orchestrating containers, which is a software deployment method that allows much easier management and production of applications at ...
Magic Leap acquires augmented reality telepresence outfit Mimesys
Magic Leap Inc., the company best known for its magical augmented reality glasses hardware and demos, announced Thursday it has acquired the spatial co-presence company Mimesys, a maker of telepresence collaboration software for enterprise users. With its platform, distant users can interact with one another with fully realized holographic images of one another as 3-D people ...
Clothing brand Alyx turns to Iota’s blockchain to track garment authenticity
Clothing designer Matthew William’s luxury fashion brand Alyx announced today that it will use Iota Foundation’s blockchain distributed ledger technology to track the production of clothing from raw materials to the final product. The system, which will be used to instill consumer trust, combines the efforts of materials science company Avery Dennison and supply chain ...
DigiLens secures $50M in funding on the path to cheap augmented reality
DigiLens Inc., maker of holographic waveguide technology for augmented reality devices, today announced it has raised $50 million in a new funding round. Smart glasses and other augmented reality devices use transparent displays so that users can look through them — for example the lenses of glasses or the windshield of a car — and ...
Nike uses augmented reality to get people into better-fitting shoes
Years of experimenting with augmented reality has paid off for footwear maker Nike Inc. with the company’s release of Nike Fit, an AR app that helps customers make sure they get properly sized shoes. Announced today by the athletic-shoe maker, Nike Fit is a special measuring solution built directly into the company’s mobile app that ...