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augmented reality

Microsoft wins patent for augmented reality glasses that tell you to stop eating

Microsoft yesterday received a patent for augmented reality glasses that act as that little voice telling you not to eat… Read More

Augmented reality will be Facebook’s next big push, starting with smartphone cameras

Facebook is betting big on augmented reality. Kicking off the annual F8 developer conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans… Read More

Pluto VR raises $13.9M to build out virtual reality communication platform

Pluto VR, the Seattle-based virtual reality startup co-founded by PopCap Games co-founder John Vechey, has raised $13.9 million in a… Read More

Samsung Gear VR gets a controller as company flexes virtual muscle at Mobile World Congress

Samsung’s Gear VR will join some of its virtual reality contemporaries with the announcement that it will soon get a… Read More

WeChat parent Tencent leads $3M investment in augmented reality contact-lens company Innovega

The startup journey is often a sprint, a mad dash to raise capital and release products. But augmented reality startup… Read More

Podcast

Q&A: Tech evangelist Robert Scoble predicts mixed reality devices will largely supplant smartphones

Virtual and mixed reality technology is developing even more rapidly than many anticipated. For some, that’s a nightmare scenario, a… Read More

Aetho Thrive

Intellectual Ventures spinoff Xinova and Aetho join forces on tools for virtual and augmented reality

A Seattle-based invention factory called Xinova has made a deal to collaborate with Aetho, a San Francisco-based venture, on new… Read More

Realtor.com’s new features bring augmented reality, image recognition to home-buying

Realtor.com is coming out with a pair of new features for its Android mobile app that use image recognition and augmented… Read More

Key-finding system

How Microsoft’s HoloLens headset could help find your keys (and do much more)

Microsoft expects its HoloLens augmented-reality headset to guide you through complicated tasks in the workplace, but someday you could also… Read More

How construction companies are using virtual reality to plan, build and manage complicated projects

Construction can be a tricky business. There are a lot of moving parts in any big project, whether it be a… Read More

HoloLens launches in 6 new countries in first overseas expansion for Microsoft’s mixed reality headset

  Microsoft, which previously sold its HoloLens headset in the U.S. and Canada only, is expanding the mix-reality headset to six new countries… Read More

This virtual reality company just moved to Seattle because it’s the ‘center of everything gaming and VR’

NullSpace VR wants to add a little more reality to the virtual reality experience. The company, founded by Morgan Sinko,… Read More

Seattle leading the way in VR as tech giants and startups wade into the emerging field

The Seattle area is rapidly becoming a leader in virtual and augmented reality, with tech giants, mid-sized companies and startups all… Read More

Science, technology and art merge at Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Poetic Hybrids’ exhibit

Artist Ginny Ruffner’s Poetic Hybrids exhibit makes concepts of genetic modification, augmented reality and sophisticated 3D modeling accessible enough for a… Read More

Pokemon Go

New York governor says no to Pokémon Go for paroled sex offenders, seeks Niantic’s tech help

Sex offenders under community supervision in New York State will be barred from playing Pokémon Go as New York Gov.… Read More

Pokemon characters

Two weeks, 129 miles, 8 pounds: Here’s the geek who already caught all 142 Pokémon

So, this guy caught ’em all. Already. A 28-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., man named Nick Johnson is apparently the first person to… Read More

Pokémon Go through HoloLens

Play Pokémon Go on Microsoft HoloLens augmented-reality headset? Make it so!

Millions of Pokémon Go players are peering into smartphones to look for animated characters in an augmented-reality world, but what… Read More

Pokemon jets

Boeing bans Pokémon Go game-playing at work – but don’t take it personally, Pikachu

Mark off the Boeing Co. as one more place where you shouldn’t be playing Pokémon Go, the monster-catching game that’s been… Read More

Pikachu in space

Pokémon Go is no-go for space station, but astronauts can fight aliens with HoloLens

Astronauts have zapped virtual aliens on the International Space Station, using Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed-reality headset. So how about Pokémon Go, the… Read More

UW CoMotion opening new HQ with space for virtual, augmented reality startups

University of Washington’s CoMotion innovation program announced today it will move to a new University District headquarters that will include an incubator space for… Read More

Star Wars Magic Leap

Video: Watch C-3PO and R2-D2 enter your living room as Star Wars meets Magic Leap

Whatever Magic Leap is up to when it comes to augmented reality (other than building an office in Seattle), the… Read More

Augmented reality company Magic Leap building new Seattle office

Augmented reality company Magic Leap is solidifying its presence in Seattle, in its notoriously secretive style — adding an intriguing new twist to… Read More

Inside the ‘world’s first HoloLens class’: UW computer science students show mixed reality projects

What happens when a group of talented computer science students at the University of Washington get to play with a HoloLens… Read More

Microsoft opens Windows Holographic platform to all VR and AR headset makers

Microsoft today announced that it will open Windows Holographic, the platform that powers Microsoft HoloLens, to any virtual reality or augmented… Read More

The promise of virtual reality: How industry leaders envision the future

  What’s the future of virtual and augmented reality? Is it just a bunch of hype, as the Wall Street… Read More

HoloLens for rover design

NASA uses Microsoft’s HoloLens and ProtoSpace to build its next Mars rover in augmented reality

We’ve already seen how Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed-reality headset is helping folks fight off aliens on the International Space Station and… Read More

Seeking Pluto's Frigid Heart

SIFFX will showcase VR and 360-degree video as a four-day program within Seattle Film Festival

The Seattle International Film Festival will embrace enhanced modes of storytelling such as virtual reality, 360-degree video and augmented reality… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Questions for a Better Future, CoCA Pop-Up (AR)t, Supercute Farewell and more

Can we create a better future through inquiry? That is one question, of several, that Questions for a Better Future will… Read More

Amazon wins patent for technology that uses hand size to identify kids

Our vision of the future has long included computers that we control with a wave of the hand. But what… Read More

Magic Leap Robert Scoble

Get real: Robert Scoble’s Google Glass shower photo reimagined in Magic Leap patent filing

Wash the soap out of your eyes. That really (probably) is Robert Scoble’s Google Glass shower photo rendered as a… Read More

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