Posted at Dec 28 2017 in Blogs by

In our Top Christmas Patents post, we showed you just how weird and wonderful patented inventions for the holiday season can be.  From ball drop simulators, confetti sprayers to champagne towers, we're listing down our Top 5 New Year's Eve patents which make ringing in the new year a little...

Posted at Dec 22 2017 in Augmented Reality, Blogs, Mixed Reality, Parola Insight, Virtual Reality by

This week, Magic Leap unveiled its first augmented reality (AR) goggles, Magic Leap One. The announcement comes three years after it promised to release a software development kit. On December 20th, the Florida-based mixed reality startup announced that it will release an SDK in early 2018, with the hardware projected...

Posted at Dec 22 2017 in Blogs by

From a Santa Claus detector to a reindeer feeding kit, the Christmas season is not spared from inventions ranging from weird to wonderful. Our compilation of top Christmas patents just shows that there are some who don't just dream it, they patent it! Or at least they try. Parola Analytics extends...

Posted at Nov 24 2017 in Augmented Reality, Blogs, Mixed Reality, Virtual Reality by

Most people are probably unaware that applications relating to mixed reality (virtual reality, augmented reality, etc.) have been around since the beginning of the 20th century.1,2 But the technology at the time was pretty much still at concept or proof-of-concept stage than anything else. Nothing of note came out of it...