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Doug Thompson

Doug Thompson

📍 Digital Nomad https://bureauofbrightideas.com

Unreal 5 & The Augmented Reality Roadmap

The Internet was left gasping for breath after a preview of Unreal 5. As a peek at what will be possible with the next generation of consoles, it was stunning. But it isn’t just consoles that matter. Epic has other ambitions. And Unreal 5 also provides some intriguing insights

Apple vs Oakley: Winning the Battle vs Winning the War

Apple has a tough hill to climb if it wants to win the war for the most valuable real estate there may ever be: your nose. Your glasses won’t just help you to see, they’ll be your gateway into the largest paradigm shift in computing since the mobile

Magic Leap Can Succeed Where Hololens Does Not

Magic Leap has secured [https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/21/magic-leap-has-apparently-raised-another-350-million-in-spite-of-itself/] a lifeline. With $350M in new funding secured through ‘existing and new investors’ the company has been able to withdraw its notices of potential termination to employees not laid off during the last wave. The announcement has been met

Apple Glass Leak: Yes They're Glasses

Apple Glass is coming, with famed leaker Jon Prosser saying that, pending how Covid plays out, they may launch as soon as the last quarter of this year [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfjSy6T4iE4]. The wearable devices won’t, however, be available for purchase until the last part of

Standards for Augmented Reality and the Spatial Cloud: A Long Wait?

Matt Miesnieks, former co-founder and CEO of 6D.ai, thinks it will take time for the spatial computing industry to adopt the standards being pursued by the Open AR Cloud Association and the more open ecosystem providers like Google.. “We used to joke that standards are for the losers,” said

Sketchfab Boosts Augmented Reality with Teams Launch

Sketchfab makes it easy to publish 3D content on the web. Now, the company has launched Sketchfab Teams to help groups work together to create and distribute that content. The result is an accessible platform that boosts the ability to create augmented reality (AR) experiences. The company recently announced support

Apple Glasses Could Take Photos Without a Camera

Apple Glasses could take photos. But they might not have a camera. The ‘design brief’ for the new wearable device ISN’T to create augmented reality glasses [https://shodu.net/apple-doesnt-care-about-augmented-reality-heres-why/] , but to a) disrupt EYE GLASSES (a $138B market) and b) simply create a pair of glasses that are

Apple Doesn't Care About Augmented Reality: Here's Why

Apple Glasses aren’t being made for augmented reality. Apple just doesn’t care. But the reason they’ll launch the wearables is an order of magnitude more important than being able to place objects in the world around you, Robert Scoble recently jumped into the debate [https://www.linkedin.

Augmented Reality and a Creative Commons for Physical Objects

The Augmented Reality Cloud is creating a ‘digital twin’ of the physical world. Physical places are being scanned, anchors are being set, the relationship between objects are being mapped. But should physical objects and spaces have “rights”? When you can easily overlay digital content on a physical object, does the

Unreal Support for Azure Spatial Anchors

Unreal recently announced [https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/unreal-engine-4-25-released] support for Azure Spatial Anchors [https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/spatial-anchors/] with the release of Version 4.25. At first glance, the announcement might seem like it most neatly ties into their additional support for Microsoft’s Hololens. But