VR/AR

Though generally tied to the video game industry, augmented and virtual reality companies are planting seeds from the construction industry to education, and most sectors in between, including healthcare. Augmented reality in healthcare can help with a number of issues, both mental and physical, but this article will focus on its benefits regarding the former. Guest blog written by Amber Harris, Academic Resources, Circa Interactive ...

Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality are being used more and more in hospitals by doctors and healthcare professionals to provide them with a hands-free working environment, greater flexibility with overlaying information and processing information from its camera. IDTechEx predicts this market to be over $20bn. IDTechEx's report on 'Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality 2020-2030' provides a detailed overview of this sector.

One of the great strengths of Virtual Reality (VR) is its ability to allow users to experience real world training scenarios, without endangering them, colleagues or the general public. That is why Highways England (HE) turned to London-based virtual reality specialists MXTreality, when a new training programme was required to help control room operators better understand the impact of their actions on the customer satisfaction of motorists ...

If you want to exercise harder, enjoy it more and feel it less, put on a VR headset and plug in some upbeat tunes, leading sport scientists say in their latest study. When exercising, people feel better when they lose themselves in music and computer-simulated environments, shows a paper in the British Journal of Health Psychology.

SITECH, distributor of Trimble technology, has supplied its first customer with new augmented reality (AR) and 3D visualisation technology SiteVision. Civil engineering contractor WM Donald purchased the system to provide clients with a detailed visualisation of projects on site and to remove the need for paper drawings. WM Donald has already received great feedback from its clients.

Recently the versatility of mixed reality and augmented reality products has come to the forefront of the news, with an Imperial led project at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Doctors have been wearing the Microsoft Hololens headsets whilst working on the front lines of the COVID pandemic, to aid them in their care for their patients.

Augmented, virtual, and mixed reality products are at the forefront of technological change. Over the 2010-2020 decade, there have been many new products released which have captured the imagination of creators, developers and businesses alike. 

As COVID-19 continues to disrupt business across the globe, VRtuoso is experiencing even greater interest in its VR platform delivery suite with in excess of 30 corporate enterprise clients investing in VR technology to solve remote and on-premise training and collaboration requirements via interactive VR experiences in real-time from anywhere.   

A service tool, miRemote, based on augmented reality technology, enables an immediate online connection between customers and Minebea Intec, thus avoiding waiting times for technicians and unnecessary production down-times.

The Rusmoloko Farms, in the Russian district of Ramensky, is equipping its dairy cows with virtual reality (VR) goggles, showing the animals green, sunny meadows in an effort to boost their mood and increase milk production. At the moment, VR for cows is just an isolated experiment, but there are other technologies that are rapidly gaining traction in the agricultural industry.  Here, Neil Ballinger, Head of EMEA Sales at automation parts s...