augmented reality uses Archives

Boeing looks to augmented reality to improve worker efficiency

06/19/201506/17/2015 Sam Lambert

augmented reality glasses patent (note: these are not real ar)

The aircraft manufacturing giant has shown that AR technology can improve information availability. In Santa Clara, California, at the Augmented World Expo, speakers discussed the barriers of adoption to augmented reality and helped to show the many practical uses for the technology that can make it more than worth the while of companies to take it on. Boeing was among the top proponents for the use of AR tech, and it shared its own internal study results. While Boeing wasn’t the only one at the event that was applauding the…

Augmented reality teaser revealed by Motorola

10/29/201310/26/2013 Julie Campbell

The company released an AR tech based project with pop-up art that is drawing considerable attention. Motorola had already given a small taste of an augmented reality concept that they were dabbling with, which was focused on children and that raised a few brows with interest from the industry. That occurred at the Uplinq conference from Qualcomm, but Motorola has made considerable headway since then. Now it looks as though this augmented reality project is much closer to being officially announced, as Motorola has offered yet another sneak peak at…

Augmented reality used by Toronto Star to bring news to life

09/27/201309/24/2013 Julie Campbell

The traditional print newspaper used mobile technology to give it an online advantage. The Toronto Star newspaper took the experience that it was providing to its readers to a new level as it applied augmented reality to some of its print pages in order to provide a unique and enhanced experience to its readers. Ahead of the release, the newspaper put out a video to show how the AR tech would work. In order to achieve this augmented reality feat, the Star partnered with Layar, an AR company based in…

Augmented reality lends could be the end of blindness

11/25/201111/25/2011 John Montgallo

Augmented Reality contect lens (not actual device)

Augmented reality has been a technology that has been seeing most use in terms of marketing and video games. To date, the practical uses for the technology have been few and far between, despite the growing rate at which researchers are using the technology in the fields of medicine and science. Researchers from the University of Washington have developed and new optical device that seeks to lend more practicality to the technology and lead it away from the realm of novelty. The team of researchers has developed a prototype bionic…

New augmented reality teaching tool could help students learn to read and write

10/25/201110/25/2011 L. Green

Logical Choice Technologies, developers of educational tools, have announced the release of a new product that will serve as supplemental reading curriculum for teachers. Called Letters Alive 2.0, the program makes use of augmented reality to make reading a more engaging experience for students. The program is designed for young students starting their education in literacy. These students may respond well to the program as its use of augmented reality makes learning more akin to a game. Letters Alive uses 3D and augmented reality technologies to project interactive images into…