Augmented World Expo, better known as its acronym AWE, has grown to become one of the AR and VR world’s most important gatherings, with over 6,000 attendees expected. AWEThis year’s conference, the 9th annual, comes at a moment when AR is particularly hot. At its annual developers conference, Google I/O, the company announced Google Lens (computer vision) integration into the camera on dozens of Android phones, including Pixel phones. Nathan Martz of Google will deliver a keynote about AR with Google, and Google is participating in several other sessions, “Intro to Web AR” and “Designing AR Experiences”. Holosuit is a full body motion capture suit that uses haptic feedback to let people truly enter the VR world for gaming and sports while allowing training for situations like medical and military.

Source: Forbes May 16, 2018 13:48 UTC