What if everything you said and did and everything you saw and heard was recorded? What if everybody you encountered was recording as well? Do you think you or they would behave differently? The idea has been posited by science fiction writers including William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Bruce Sterling to name a few favorites and by contemporary commentator Shoshana Zuboff in her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
Father of CyberEdge Journal and the first VR conferences
I first met Mr. Delaney in 1990, I think, when I was trying to figure out if virtual reality would ever get out of the military labs and into consumer’s or, at least, industry’s hands. Ben was convinced it would and made it his life’s passion, and effort to ensure it did. He had a few imitators, but no one … Read more
It’s been a busy fall in the design and engineering industry, but PTC and Onshape still managed to shake up the industry. PTC announced plans to acquire Onshape for $470 in cash. PTC used its financial call to talk about the acquisition. In his opening remarks, Heppelmann said the deal is part of a “near era of Software as a … Read more
Unsplash Stem.T4L Nvidia just announced its RTX Broadcast Engine at the TwitchCon (a gathering of live streamers), which is a new set of RTX-accelerated software development kits that use the AI capabilities of GeForce RTX GPUs to transform live streams. Nvidia says its RTX GPU’s new SDKs enable virtual greenscreens, style filters and augmented reality effects techniques like those … Read more
An AR experience has got to be worth at least a million
What’s more fundamental to the act of making a movie than the camera? It’s the camera that defines a movie and separates it from a play and as camera technology has changed over the years, they’ve changed the art of movies. When first used to make movies, cameras were fixed—they were giant things that stayed put and captured longish takes … Read more
At the PTC LiveWorx19 conference the other week, CEO and visionary Jim Heppelmann showed off Volvo trucks—actually had two of them on stage with him during his keynote. Volvo and PTC have been working together for years. Volvo uses just about every bit of software PTC makes including PTC’s AR stuff—and they need to. Last year, Volvo made 260,000 trucks—that’s … Read more
PTC’s new headquarters on the Boston waterfront is in the heart of Boston’s building boom and designed to be a magnet for talent in PTC’s fast-growing IoT and AR business. (Source: JPR) PTC is building on gains made and lessons learned. CEO Jim Heppelmann was a keynote speaker at the AWE AR conference in May and followed up a … Read more
I have never been a fan of the term mixed-reality, and think it is misleading, confusing, and annoying. Microsoft started it by calling their Hololens AR HMD an MR HMD because they were trying to get some product differentiation and distance from AR and the damage Google had done to the term. Qualcomm tried to sidestep the politics and … Read more
Last year at AWE, Prague-based VRgineers showed their super wide 180-degree FOV headset with “5K” displays, the XTAL. The XTAL headset was available in the U.S. for $5,800. (Source: VRgineers) The over-sized 770 g (1.7 lbs) HMD (including a head strap and balance counterweight) measures 299 mm × 123 mm × 140 mm (11.8 inch × 4.8 inch × … Read more
Remember JP’s rules for AR: Don’t be ugly or obnoxious Don’t be expensive or heavy Don’t be proprietary nreal comes very close to meeting all three requirements. The glasses are lightweight, they are not intrinsically ugly or obnoxious, but are obnoxiously colorful probably for market attention—hopefully, that can be toned-down for people over 25. They are not too expensive … Read more
