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...
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...
Apple’s relatively low ranking in terms of MR-related P/PA at 9th place over the 2002-2016 period is consistent with its being ranked only 12th in terms of number of patents granted by the USPTO in 2016....
The growing mixed reality (MR) industry is now at a point where it is churning out new iterations of MR-related products and services more often. So, the question which MR system or platform to buy or adopt is one that many people are probably looking at more closely now....
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...
In today’s Conversations, we are joined by Elbert Perez, co-founder and chief technical officer of Doghead Simulations, a virtual reality conferencing software startup. Elbert is no stranger to VR, having worked for HTC as a senior software prototyper for the HTC Vive....
In the first installment of this series, we caught up with Bruce Knuteson, former physics professor at MIT and now founder of Kn-X, a knowledge exchange startup....
This article is the last installment in a three-part series that provides some useful tips for performing prior art searches. If you missed the first two parts of this series, please check Parts 1 and 2. Watch out for Technical Terms or Phrases That Look Like Ordinary Words or...
This article is the second in a three-part series that provides some useful tips for performing prior art searches. If you missed the first part of this series, please check it out here. Prepare A Good Set of Search Keywords. A good combination of search keywords is key to performing...
This article is the first in a three-part series that provides some useful tips for performing prior art searches. These tips are based on best practices that we have relied on in the over 5,000 prior art searches we have delivered to companies worldwide. Prior art search may seem like...