The AR Roundup: June 2018
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2 min readJun 12, 2018
Here’s what you missed in augmented reality for June 2018
Numbers
- Juniper sizes the enterprises mixed reality application market at 40M by 2022 with 97% of the $6 billion app revenues using subscription-based revenue model (Business Wire)
- Augmented and mixed reality revenue will more than double to $3.2 billion this year, and is expected to exceed virtual reality by 2021 (SuperData Research)
Money
Big News
- Madrona Venture raises another $300 million fund to invest in Northwest startups (Seattle Times)
Platforms & Tools
- Beyond Sports announced it has secured $2.36M USD in seed round financing (BusinessWire)
Applications & Solutions
News
Hardware
- Vuzix Smart Glasses Getting a Major Upgrade in 2019 with Light Engine from Plessey (Next Reality)
- Qualcomm just unveiled the first dedicated ‘XR’ platform (Business Insider)
- DreamWorld’s DreamGlass AR headset now available for pre-order (Wareable)
- Kopin’s Golden-i Infinity Is A Wearable Display For Smartphones, Tablets (Tom’s Hardware)
- Epson’s Moverio Smartglasses Line Gets Major Upgrades with New SDK and Web-Based Publishing (Next Reality)
- Lightform unveils $699 augmented-reality projection device from the brains behind Xbox IllumiRoom (GeekWire)
- Google, LG unveil ‘world’s highest-res’ OLED display for mobile AR & VR w/ 3x PPI of Rift/Vive (9to5 Google)
Platform & Tools
- Apple debuts a new avatar system called Memoji (Road to VR)
- Apple Announces New USDZ Augmented Reality File Format Coming in iOS 12 (MacRumors)
- Apple announces ARKit 2 with improved face tracking, 3D object detection and persistent and shared experiences (TechCrunch)
- Adobe’s Project Aero Aims to Help Creators Build AR Content (Road to VR)
- Scope AR Is Bringing Its Remote AR, WorkLink Apps Together (Tom’s Hardware)
- Google brings its ARCore technology to China in partnership with Xiaomi (TechCrunch)
- Leap Motion announces a major release of our Orion VR tracking software, now available for public beta on Windows (Leap Motion)
- Snap introduces ads for its Snappables AR games (Venturebeat)
Applications & Solutions
- Google Lens is now available as a standalone app (The Verge)
- Snapchat launches its first Lens that reacts to sound (Engadget)
- Porche debuts Tech Live Look using ODG glasses (USA Today)
- Curate by Sotheby’s AR app goes live on the App Store (PRNewswire)
- Microsoft officially launches Remote Assist and Layout mixed reality apps in preview (Windows Central)
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