Virtual Reality
Truly Advanced Manufacturing: How Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and 3D Printing Might Combine to Change the Way We Make…Things
A team of Australian scientists recently announced plans to use 3D printing and virtual reality to bring a dinosaur back to life. No, it won’t actually be alive, but it…
Bringing Virtual Reality and 3D Printing Together for Surgical Planning — A Few Questions For: EchoPixel
Medical applications for 3D technologies simply never cease to amaze me. The intricacies of the human body are best served by a three-dimensional understanding, which flat CT or MRI scans…
3D Printing and Virtual Surgical Planning Aid in the Mayo Clinic’s First Face Transplant
3D printing technologies are helping patients around the world to face the world as they allow for life-changing operations to be performed with a precision never before possible. The Mayo…
Australian Exhibit Will Allow Users to Meet a Dinosaur in the Virtual World, Then Examine Its 3D Printed Counterpart
If movies have taught me anything, one of the most important lessons may have come from Jurassic Park: just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should, and…
Apple: Possible 3D Laser Scanner for iPhone 8, with Facial Recognition, Augmented Reality, 3D Printing Potential
As Apple’s plans for breaking into the 3D industry continue to confound, small bits and pieces have been thrown out to tease us over the past few years. We’ve tried…
Startups Take Note: Frontier Tech Showdown Submission Deadline Approaching for Inside 3D Printing NYC
Back in 2016, the Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo and its sister expo RoboUniverse, both of which are put on by global events producer Rising Media, combined their individual…
Morphi Releases Augmented Reality Viewer for Their 3D Modeling Apps and Teases Upcoming Releases
While it’s easy to find free 3D models online for 3D printing or other uses, there are limits to what you can reasonably expect to find. For example, if you have…
RIT Student Combines HoloLens Glasses with HTC Vive System to Make New Shared Reality App
Whether you’re reaching out and grabbing items in a game using the Dexma Exoskeleton, or taking an up close and personal look at the human brain, what’s not to love about…
3D Print to Survive the Apocalypse: A Look at the Overlap Between 3D Printing and Gaming
This spring, game developer Holospark will be releasing Earthfall, a first-person co-operative shooter game set in a post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest that has been ravaged by aliens. The invasion, along with…
A Closer Look at the Many Uses for Additive Manufacturing & Augmented Reality in America’s Military Forces
3D printing and additive manufacturing are reshaping the military in America, and in other countries as well. Marines in California took a short class in 2016 about how to best…
3D Printing: The Stories We Missed This Week — January 28, 2017
On this week’s “The Stories We Missed This Week,” we’ve got news on the latest industry partnerships, expansions, products, and more. For starters, the Irish 3D printer company Mcor is…
Penn State Students Finding Success in Virtual Reality Educational Consulting Startup: Rain Reality
The Bechdel test began as a way to understand whether women in works of fiction were active or passive characters as indicated by the content of their dialogue. To be…
The Possible: GE Announces Immersive Virtual Reality Documentary Miniseries
When it comes to cutting-edge and creative technology, you can be sure that GE will be right there with it; what else would you expect from a company whose motto is “Imagination…
Why I Wasn’t Bored at CES 2017
CES 2017 has come and gone and left us all with a smattering of new tech product announcements and (I know I’m not alone in this) a lingering bug from…
Using Virtual Reality to Travel Inside the Human Brain
It’s hard not to be fascinated by virtual reality. The fantasy of being able to immerse yourself in a nonexistent environment and navigate as if you are part of it…
Mark Zuckerberg 3D Prints His Dog to Celebrate Dog’s Birthday
When I was a kid, I treated my dog’s birthday with all the seriousness that I believed I would one day treat the birthday of a child. I opened a…
Augmented Reality Smart Glasses: Epson Announces Availability of Moverio BT-300 Developer & Drone Editions
The world of eyeglasses is certainly one where we’ve all seen progress by leaps and bounds in the past decades, whether we have the need to wear them ourselves or…
‘Virtually Real’ Exhibit Questions Imagined Gap Between Art & Science with 3D Technologies
Artists love to play with new tools, and push the boundaries of those tools. It should come as no surprise then that the arts community has embraced advanced technologies just…
Humaneyes Technologies Announces Release of Vuze Camera & Two New Partnerships
Those who attend CES each year expect to be blown away with far more than just your basic electronics as the biggest names—and many, many innovators from around the world—exhibit…
CES BeautyTech: Augmented Reality Fashion Show With YouCam Makeup
Fashion has been an arena of augmented reality ever since the first neck ring lengthened the neck of its wearer or the first shape-changing stay was introduced into the first…
HP Unveils the Newly Upgraded Sprout Pro G2 at CES 2017
We’ve spent a lot of time talking about HP over the course of the past year, and for good reason – their entrance into the 3D printing industry with the…
3D Printing at CES 2017
I’m traveling to Las Vegas today for my annual pilgrimage to CES. If you’re unfamiliar, it’s the USA’s largest trade show. Over 165,000 people will attend the event to see…
Augmented Reality, Business and Breasts — A Few Questions For: ILLUSIO Imaging
Because reality isn’t the only thing that can stand to be augmented, we were recently introduced to the use of AR technology in breast augmentation surgery consultations as California-based ILLUSIO Imaging…
Amid Underwhelming 2017 Economic Outlook, South Korea Announces Plan to Invest Heavily in Advanced Technology
As 2016 draws to a close, industries and governments are examining their economic prospects for the upcoming year. For South Korea, 2017 looks like it’s going to be underwhelming. Political…
