Publication/Creation Date

October 22 2018

Creators/Contributors

Charlie Fink (creator)
Ori Inbar (contributor)

Description

For this installment of his new weekly column, "This Week is XR", Charlie Fink reports from the AWE EU conference held in Munich, Germany. The conference began with founder of AWE Ori Inbar highlighting the continued growth of the XR industry. He says, "all signs point to rapid XR adoption by the Fortune 1000, big bets by tech, manufacturing and consumer giants, and record investment in the billions". Inbar also announced the launch of the Open AR Cloud (OARC) initiative, which was first mentioned at AWE USA 2018. 

Fink discusses many of the major company accouncements from the conference, including the official launch of Vuzix Blade commerical edition AR glasses (Ubimax's frontline AR system is now compatible with the Vuzix Blade), RE'FLEKT's new standard enterprise operating system, Bosch's new AR system for the automotive industry, RealWear's HMT-1 AR system is now being used by Colgate-Palmolive factory workers, and Visualix's new AR cloud localization system for warehouses. 

Augments

Viewing, Seeing, Working, Producing, Playing, Interacting

Technology Keywords

Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR), Augmented Reality Cloud (AR Cloud), Extended Reality (XR), Mobile Augmented Reality, Location-Based Virtual Reality (LBVR)

Keywords

Work, Industry, Labour, Manufacturing, Automotive , Games, Sports, Entertainment

Marketing Keywords

AWE 2018, AWE EU 2018, Augmented World Expo™ (AWE), RealWear, RealWear HMT-1, Colgate-Palmolive, Vuzix, Vuzix Blade, Ubimax, RE'FLEKT, RE'FLEKT ONE, Visualix, Oculus, Oculus Quest, NextVR, RecRoom VR, HTC Vive, Devar, World Conference On VR Industry 2018, BOSCH, Eye Candy Lab, Augmen.tv

Source

https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2018/10/22/this-week-in-xr-awe-eu-wrap-up-a-china-scale-vr-conference-augmented-tv-vr-bowling-and-more/