augmented reality

It Looks Like Apple is Finally Jumping into the Virtual Reality Market

While Apple has always been notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to ongoing projects and technology development, it seemed a little off that we haven’t heard much from them concerning virtual…

Bonsai Lab Launches the World’s First Voice Controlled 3D Printer: The Sub-$500 FabPod

Even as industrial 3D printing is exploding, the desktop 3D printer market is starting to soften a bit, so many 3D printer manufacturers are looking to find new ways to…

Seeing God Through 3D Printing — Proven Reality

Well, you won’t literally see God, but 3D Proven Systems wants to bring you as close as possible through a combination of 3D printing, virtual and augmented realities, and a…

Sketchfab Receives $7 Million in Series A Funding from FirstMark Capital; Expanding Further into VR/AR

Sketchfab is a world unto itself. Featuring a unique platform for checking out and integrating 3D content into your own social media or files, you can get lost in viewing,…

Amazing 6-Foot Tall 3D Printed Augmented Reality Cockpit Required 75 Days Worth of Printing to Complete

Virtual reality and augmented reality are two technologies which have been growing in use over the past few years. As computers become more powerful and software development continues to improve,…

Shapeways and Others Partner with Meta for Augmented Reality Hackathon This Weekend in San Francisco

3D printing and its reality ‘cousins,’ both virtual and augmented, run in the same scientific community circles, with paths often intersecting — and products sometimes becoming combined. As innovations in the…

Pango, the Augmented Reality Enabled 3D Design & Printing Service Launches on Kickstarter

Despite some tremendous progress, one of the biggest obstacles in the way of widespread, mainstream adoption of 3D printing is the skill it takes to develop comprehensive 3D printable models…

Smart Replicas: Bringing New Life to Museum Collections with 3D Printing

Museums that house objects have a particularly difficult task. These objects were created with the intention that they would be handled, and part of the fascination with them lies in…

New Holographic Augmented Reality for Previewing Your 3D Prints

If you have ever used a 3D printer before, then you know how boring it can be to wait in anticipation for your 3D model to print out. Often times…