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VROOM Combines Mixed Reality Avatars and Robots

Microsoft wants people-sized avatars to come to work as telepresence robots

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Vuzix M400 Smart Glasses Certified for Knee Replacement Surgery

Startup Pixee using computer vision, deep learning and augmented reality to aid surgeons.

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Porsche Is Using Augmented Reality for Remote Assistance

Local dealership technicians connect hands-free to specialists for help.

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Low-Cost Power Efficient Haptic Device for VR Invented at Carnegie Mellon

Haptic feedback developed by innovative string placement, Leap Motion and rachet mechanisms.

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Chronicling Magic Leap’s Promises, Tricks and Reveals

The company’s bait-and-switch tactics have wrecked consumer confidence.

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Mirror Arrays Improve Occlusion for AR

Specialized array of tiny mirrors alters light to provide occlusion in bright light.

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U.S. Air Force Uses AR Glasses to Improve Efficiency

XR Glasses by ThirdEye Gen debut in pilot program with 7th Bomb Wing crews.

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XR’s New Moment: Everyone Is on a Distributed Team Now

Is XR right for engineers and designers working from home?

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Recommended Resources

White Paper - The Value of Augmented Reality in Manufacturing Technology

By augmenting the information, data, images, skills, or experience that workers can access in real time through smart phones, tablets, or smart glasses, manufacturers can increase worker productivity by an order of magnitude.

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White Paper - Enabling Display Measurement within Augmented & Virtual Reality Headsets

This paper discusses the challenges of near-to-eye display (NED) measurement to ensure the quality of devices such as virtual (VR), augmented (AR), and mixed reality (MR) headsets. It introduces Radiant's integrated AR/VR Lens solution, and outlines the solution's advantages for evaluating human visual experiences in NED applications.

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Research Report: Augmented Reality for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO)

The term Industry 4.0 denotes a cluster of technologies that’s poised to fundamentally reshape manufacturing and bring about a new industrial revolution. These include 3D printing (AM), the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and mixed reality technologies, more commonly known as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).

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White Paper: Now You Can Program Robots in Virtual Reality

Savvy engineers have eagerly anticipated the impact of virtual reality (VR) on robot programming technology, as it can dramatically increase productivity by empowering engineers to do their jobs safer and more efficiently.

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