BROWSING: AR

The hottest new digital tech in the automotive space is not the electrification or automation of vehicles. It is not, actually, sensors or analytics in production facilities. Instead, it is augmented reality (AR), brought to life on voice-operated wearable computers, and sold as connected...

Nokia has reduced lead times for base station prototypes at factories in Finland and India by 50 per cent with the use of augmented reality (AR) for training on its product assembly lines, it has said. The company is using industrial AR – as...

Note, this article continues from a previous instalment: 'Connectivity is 5% of Industry 4.0 spend – we’d rather talk apps and services'. Go here to read this article. So, what about those IoT use cases, which Orange Business Services (OBS) reckons are proven (see...

IHG piloting XR Event Planner for sales enablement, remote collaboration We've all attended corporate events hosted in hotel meeting rooms but perhaps we overlook the hotel staff, event planners and third-party vendors that worked for months on selecting lighting, tablecloths, room layouts and so forth....

After leading the early automation revolution at the beginning of the 20th century, manufacturers are once again seeking a technological edge. A whopping 72% of manufacturing companies plan to significantly increase investment into digitization efforts in 2020. These manufacturers’ combined financial commitment is expected...

The global manufacturing sector will spend over $1 trillion on smart software, hardware and services in 2030, almost quadrupling the $259 billion spend in 2019.  The volume of wireless connections, including LTE and 5G, as well as low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies and Wi-Fi, will spiral...

The evolution to 5G will see an unprecedented increase in network complexity - from new uses cases to different service classes, network function virtualization and large volumes of data. Today’s complex networks are designed to being operated by humans and their complexity is expected...

EE initially launched 5G in May this year with coverage in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, Birmingham and Manchester In the latest demonstration of its 5G technology, British mobile network operator and internet service provider EE, part of BT, live-streamed a surprise performance by indie pop...

  Innovations in mobile communications have transformed how people and enterprises buy, sell and deliver goods, as well as interact with one another. As a result, more than $3.9 trillion of the world’s gross domestic product in 2018 was attributed to the mobile industry. In spite...

  Self-driving cars, autonomous manufacturing and immersive mobile XR are all on the 5G horizon 5G networks are commercially available in dozens of countries around the globe and consumer adoption of compatible handsets is set to spike in 2020 as coverage scales and services like cloud...

After a long period of hype, 5G cellular networking technology is on the cusp of becoming a reality. Major carriers as well as smart phone manufacturers are already advertising their consumer-oriented 5G offerings, and 5G service will be available in several major metropolitan areas...

AT&T hosted app developers using 5G and AR for healthcare, retail, finance, manufacturing The future is "phygital,"--a portmanteau of physical and digital, according to AT&T Business Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Mo Katibeh. Writing in a recent blog post, the AT&T executive reflected...

  In the 5G era, mobile communication experiences man-to-man communication, man-to-thing communication, and machine-to-machine. AR/VR, IoT, industry automation, unmanned driving etc services are introduced widely. Thus come lots of network requirements, i.e. high bandwidth, low delay and massive connections, which are three 5G scenarios defined...

Vodafone has signed a deal with industrial IoT and AR specialist PTC to help developers and enterprises deploy digital-change applications. The deal is an extension of an existing three-year arrangement, they said. Milwaukee-based PTC quoted market analysis from LNS Research that says less than 10...

After almost five years of talk, 5G is finally arriving. I had an opportunity to attend MWC Barcelona this year, and the innovations and challenges of 5G were on full display. A number of operators announced their 5G launch plans for 2019, and several...

AUSTIN, Texas, March 25, 2019 — Digital transformation of the supply chain will be bookended by two key technologies: the internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). Everything else is held in place by these twin digital capabilities. This is the conclusion of a new editorial...

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is an operator show, run by the GSMA operator group, that has always looked and sounded like a handsets show, dominated by device makers. On Sunday night at MWC 2019, as Samsung and Huawei gathered the blogger world in cavernous...

VITAS also aims to use AT&T's 5G technology and Magic Leap headsets to help provide comfort for hospice patients   AT&T and end-of-life care provider VITAS Healthcare have jointly launched a study that intends to explore whether the use of 5G-based virtual reality and augmented reality...

A new smart cities incubator has been launched in the Dallas Fort Worth region. It will focus on smart cities related technologies. Big-name collaborators on the project include AT&T, Cisco, and Microsoft, as well as local academic institutions. The new Innov8te incubator, led by the...

I read it somewhere, and it made sense; the application of new digital technologies in the global supply chain is about two critical functions – ‘sensing’ and ‘sense-making’, where the first is about connecting and managing assets in transit, and the second is about...

  5G-based Smart Water-control and Monitoring Problems such as flood and soil erosion, water pollution have led to global water resources crisis. Traditional means of water quality monitoring and control lacked automation, and were characterized by few monitoring points, and slow sampling rates. This results in...

The notion of “peak smartphone” is widely discussed of late, including by the Economist.  Revenues are flattening with longer replacement cycles, saturating markets, resistance to Apple’s price increases, decreasing prices among Android’s fiercely competitive OEMs and allegedly diminishing technical improvements in successive new device...

5G has been billed as the magic bullet for many of today’s wireless network challenges. It’s expected to bring greater bandwidth, coverage and capacity for mobile computing. While enterprise users can expect to see performance improvement for real-time apps and during peak usage times...

Focus 5G use cases include AR/VR and robotics An international consortium of interests from the European Union and Taiwan are working to explore end-to-end 5G use cases and recently completed a trial in Taiwan that examined network services that rely on both cloud compute and...