AR Apps Allow Users to Practice Virtual Feng Shui
Dallas iOS app developers are excited that iOS 11 is finally here — and with it, ARKit, Apple’s new augmented reality platform. Because apps developed with ARKit are now available to anyone with an iPhone 6 or later, it is the biggest AR platform in the world. Ever since Apple announced the platform at WWDC […]
Amazon Is Making Alexa-Connected Smart Glasses
The fizzled hype (and missed opportunity) of Google Glass remains fresh in memory. Of course, as we wrote a couple months ago, Google Glass has come back in a big way and found its niche in factories and warehouses. But as the buzz around augmented reality reaches fever pitch in the tech world, many Denver […]
Here Comes the New iPhone (Please Let There Be Surprises)
The day has finally come: it’s September 12th and tech reporters and Apple cognoscenti will soon pile into the brand new Steve Jobs Theater on the Apple Park campus to hear all about those new iPhones. But as any iPhone app developer who has not been in a coma over the past few months will […]
On September 12th, Apple Will Unleash the iPhone 8
The date iPhone app developers have been waiting for is officially here: September 12th. That’s when Apple will hold its next big event, unveiling the new iPhone and various updates for iOS devices. Invitations to the launch read, “Let’s met at our place,” making this the first event to be held at the Steve Jobs […]
Get Ready for Tech Leaders to Start Disrupting Elections
The incredible growth in technology we have witnessed over the past few decades was only a preview of what is to come in the next few years. The internet of things, AI, AR, VR, self-driving vehicles, automation in general — all of these emerging technologies are on the verge of exponential growth that would seem […]
Omega Ophthalmics Wants to Put the Power of AR in Our Eyes
So far the hype about augmented reality has been somewhat undermined by the frivolousness of its popular applications. Existing examples of AR like Snapchat and Pokemon Go are fun and all, but it is hard for a lot of people to see how the technology that makes them possible will eventually be an integral part […]
Google Glass Is Resurrected in the Workplace
When Google Glass hit the market a few years ago, it was supposed to be the Next Big Thing, a sleek and futuristic hands-free device that allowed you to experience (and capture) the world anew through a computer lens. Now it’s something of a punchline in the tech world, or, for those Android app developers […]
Apple Buys German Startup That Will Make Its AR Unstoppable
“The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told The Independent back in February. “I think AR is that big, it’s huge.” By June’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the company put its money where its […]
Google and YouTube Team Up for a New Virtual Reality Format
It seems like the virtual reality hype has subsided somewhat these days, replaced by a surge of enthusiasm for augmented reality. Apple, Google, and Facebook are placing their bets on AR as the next world-changing tech innovation, pushing their VR aspirations to the back-burner. The general public just isn’t sold on VR yet, perhaps in […]