by Bruce Brown | March 25, 2019 | Health
Smart glasses haven’t had much impact on the consumer market so far. Google Glass didn’t take hold with consumers (but that wasn’t their goal). Virtual reality (VR) headsets get more media coverage, where they are marketed mainly to the gaming...
by Bruce Brown | December 31, 2018 | Health
Virtual reality (VR) provides intense and fully engaging experiences, but augmented reality (AR) applications by definition allow people to carry on their daily routines while the technology adds something extra. We’ve written about work with AR at Stanford with...
by Bruce Brown | October 3, 2018 | General News, Medical
Augmented reality (AR) applications in health and wellness abound. From helping the blind navigate to gamifying interaction for people on the autism spectrum to helping people with Parkinson’s Disease, AR is there. When you can supplement real-world...
by Alfred Poor | September 24, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
As we have pointed out here repeatedly, virtual reality (VR) glasses tend to get the lion’s share of media coverage, while augmented reality (AR) glasses keep racking up wins in enterprise markets. Both have important health and medical applications. VR glasses...
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by Alfred Poor | September 6, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
“If these walls could talk.” We tend to think of augmented reality (AR) as a technology that helps sighted users see more than is really there in their surroundings. But researchers are finding novel applications for AR to help those who have lost their...
