7 augmented reality companies to watch
1) Apple
Under team leadership Cook, Apple has shown clear enthusiasm for augmented reality. At developer conferences around the world 2017, Apple launched its Arkit. The latest iPhone model (8, 8 plus and x) runs on a strong and friendly A11 bionic chip. The company has also made a number of significant acquisitions, gradually building a promising AR association profile. In 2015, for example, Apple buys Metaoi, a startup that specializes in Augmented Reality software.
The company is currently rumored to work on a pair of wireless specifications to coat digital content to the real world. Various release dates have been suggested but, true formed, Apple has revealed very little about the product. It seems like they spend time - maybe with the hope of avoiding the same fate as Google Glass.
2) Microsoft.
Microsoft refers to itself as a 'leader in mixed reality'. Mixed reality refers to the combined strength of augmented and virtual reality when deployed in the real world. Hololens's first iteration went on sale in 2015 with a label price of £ 2,719. While prices limit adoption in the consumer market, the product offers high-quality AR and shows Microsoft's success in developing technology. Also in 2015, Microsoft released a mixed reality catalog on the reality platform of the Windows mixture. Users can access mixed reality content including games, 360 ° videos, social media, and direct events.
The second version of the Hololens announcement, Hololens 2, is expected in the first quarter of this year. This is likely to be lighter than its predecessor and will display a special holographic processing unit embedded with Coprocessor AI. This will allow the headset to visualize data locally without communicating with the Cloud, accelerating object recognition and increasing the use of business applications.
3) Niantic.
Niiantic, a Google Spin off, was founded in 2010 to 'enrich our experience as a human in the real world with augmented reality. The real world platform company manages communication, security, mapping and functional. According to Niantic, it is the augmented augmented platform 'scale planet' in the world. In the summer of 2016, Niantic launches a game that will quickly become a child poster of Augmented Reality. The very popular Pokémon was brought in to the mainstream and the most successful AR game was ever made.
At the end of 2017, Niantic announced that it partnered with the Warner Interactive entertainment brooch to issue another cult. Harry Potter: United wizards will be released later this year. Niantic is now valued at almost $ 4 billion after the C $ 245 series funding round which was closed earlier this month.
AR Gaming is the economy in the right and popular game shifting public awareness with technology which in turn makes wider business adoption more feasible and accessible.
4) Zappar.
Established in 2011, Zappar aims to democratize AR through free applications and simple SaaS models for brands who want to build AR solutions. The company has partnered with Unilevel, Warner Bros. and Axa, and has worked with many influential brands such as Coca Cola and Sony. Zappar ZapWorks platform allows marketers, designers, and developers to create an interactive experience accessed by scanning zapcodes through cellphones. Zapcodes can change products, package, and passive printing to multimedia channels that drive involvement and open value for brands. At Augmented World Expo 2017, Zapworks is named the best author and publishing tool.
In 2019, Caspar Thykier CEO hopes to see the adoption of larger consumers and richer Mold Mold experience, and has promised 'some interesting announcements for the next year, we hope to see what might happen.
5) Sapizon - augmented reality application development company
After seven years of promise, Augmented Reality Pioneer Mehul entered the administration in 2015. However, at the beginning of this year, Mehul enrolled a new AR company called Augmented Reality in Sapizon. We know it is one of the best for virtual reality too.
