ReadWrite - What Augmented Reality Is—And Isn't

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are becoming hot buzzwords in the tech ecosystem. But what defines and distinguishes augmented reality and virtual reality?

PAN Communications - The Wide World Of Wearables: Looking Toward the Future of Branding

While some of these devices rely on input from other controls (Oculus Rift uses gloves and other gaming devices while Recon Jet uses inputs similar to Google Glass, via a touchpad on the side), many of the professional-grade virtual reality headsets make fantastic use of the gestural controls previously described. One of the leaders in this space is Atheer Labs’ flagship Atheer AiR™ SmartGlasses.

Business Wire - Atheer Named Top 100 Global Company to Watch by AlwaysOn

Atheer announced it has been selected as a “Global 100 Companies to Watch” by AlwaysOn. The award signifies peer leadership and game-changing technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets.

ABI Research - Augmented World Expo, E3, and the Future of Augmented and Virtual Reality

Atheer Labs smart glasses: One of the more impressive gesture-based AR control setups, with accurate hand tracking and fluid movement.

Business Wire - Atheer Adds Intelligent Voice and Head-motion Controls to Gesture-based AiR Smart Glasses Platform

Atheer, the company pioneering Augmented Interactive Reality (AiR), combining the power of 3D augmented reality with gesture-based interaction, today announced the latest software release that adds intelligent voice and head-motion input control to the award-winning Atheer AiR™ smart glasses platform.

BusinessWire - Atheer and Industry Leaders Establish Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA)

Atheer, the company pioneering Augmented interactive Reality (AiR™) by combining the power of mobile 3D augmented reality with gesture-based interaction, today announced its founding membership in the Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA). The new global member-based organization is focused on accelerating AR adoption through development and expansion of a vibrant technology ecosystem.

FierceMobileIT - Atheer Labs CEO: Enterprise is 'most natural starting point' for smartglasses

It's all about finding the right use cases for smartglasses, according to Torres, and his company has found some good ones for enterprises. From doctors using hands-free 3D smartglasses to avoid contamination, to industrial workers using augmented reality to provide see-what-I-see capabilities in a highly technical environment, to oil and gas workers using the technology to work hands-free, Torres thinks Atheer has the right solutions.

Alberto Torres for ReadWrite - The Greatest Potential—And Obstacle—For Wearables At Work

The vision for AR as a hands-free experience has inspired numerous players—including my own company, Atheer, as well as Microsoft with its HoloLens—to actively work toward that by developing gesture-based interaction technology.

TechRepublic - 3D smart glasses will transform workflows around the world, says Atheer's CEO

Augmented reality... will transform the global enterprise and the way work is done in the future, in nearly every imaginable way. From the warehouse floor to the operating room, augmented reality will unlock human productivity and enable faster, safer, and smarter workflows for everyone.

BusinessWire - Atheer Unveils Communications Console and Unity Integration in AiR OS

Atheer today announced a new software update for the Atheer AiR™ OS. Following the recent launch of Atheer’s second generation award-winning Smart Glasses, the Atheer AiR Developer Kit 2 (AiR DK2), the company is now introducing the cloud-based AiR Operations and Communications Console, as well as a plug-in for the Unity 3D Engine.

SPAR Point Group - Atheer's SmartGlasses: Augmented Reality You Can Touch

There are a number of see-through augmented reality solutions on the market, but Mountain View-based company Atheer says their SmartGlasses are "the industry's only mobile, gesture-controlled see-through smart glasses." Atheer is showcasing this technology at SPAR International 2015.

Alberto Torres has seen a few corporate tragedies unfold in his lifetime.... from further afield, he saw the rise and fall of Google Glass, another promising technology whose ambitions were further amplified by hype, but whose fate looked sealed earlier this year when Google said it would halt sales of the device.

Augmented reality smart glasses provide a live, direct or indirect view of the world, Underwood said, with the display embedded within the lens. Current models include the Atheer One and Shima from Laforge Optical. "If you think about all the things you do with your cell phone - how do you make that a better experience? Atheer has been a leader in that," Underwood said.

Atheer Labs (Mountain View, CA) is one of many companies focused on opportunities in the augmented reality space. Art Berman provided a nice overview of the company back in February (Introducing the Atheer Augmented Reality Glasses), and this article provides an update based on a new interview with the company. The key innovations at the company are centered around two items: a gesture interaction paradigm and - advanced visual ergonomics.

For decades, the industrial workforce in the US has been in decline, with human production increasingly moving offshore, where labor can be had for pennies on the dollar, or being replaced altogether by machines. Today, three areas of development promise to recalibrate the limits of human productivity and pioneer the next industrial revolution: the physical Web, artificial intelligence, and smart glasses.

Wired Insights - Five Ways Smart Glasses Will Revolutionize the Medical Field

Smart Glasses have the potential to change every industry, but none more so than the medical field. From family doctors giving regular preventative care to emergency room surgeons performing lifesaving procedures, and everyone in between, the way medical professionals perform their job, and the tools they use to do so, are constantly evolving.

The company said that it develops its own smart glasses which “make it possible for users to interact with data in a natural way and collaborate with their peers like never before.” The second version of augmented reality glasses comes with some changes. The gesturing capabilities have seen some refinements which come with the latest SDK. There is a Snapdragon 800 process and the frame is a lighter and more compact one compared to the earlier version. The number of pilot programs which Atheer is running in different industries to modify the product is also expanding.

Virtual reality and augmented reality technologies are fast maturing, and recently we witnessed the unveiling of Microsoft’s augmented reality glasses called the HoloLens. Now, a startup makes a mark in the VR world with its latest development on virtual and augmented reality.

BusinessWire - Atheer Raises the Bar for Natural Gesture-Based Mobile Computing with Second Generation Smart Glasses Experience

Atheer ... today announced its second generation Smart Glasses experience, with the Atheer AiR Developer Kit 2 (AiR DK2) and the expanded AiR Pilot Program. Atheer’s AiR platform has once again raised the bar for gesture-based computing, with the next generation of AiR Gestures and the official release of the AiR OS.

GigaOM - As HoloLens looms, Atheer plans new augmented reality headset

Mountain View-based startup Atheer plans to announce today a second developer version of its augmented reality glasses, moving it closer to the long-promised headset it plans to sell to businesses.

Microsoft’s new HoloLens may be the thing that introduces many to augmented reality experiences, but other smaller companies have been building augmented reality applications for work for some time now. One such company is Mountain View, Calif.-based Atheer

HoloLens, a newly announced augmented reality device from Microsoft, is definitely turning some heads to the possibility of interacting with floating apps and games. We can’t help but notice though that there seems to be an eerie convergence of technology, leaving us with a serious case of déjà vu. Here we take a closer look at two crowdfunded devices that are working on the same problems as HoloLens: Atheer Labs’s AiR Smart Glasses and ....

But while much of the attention has been focused on Google, it’s worth recalling that what we’re talking about is the technology and less so the specific brand of device. And we’ve seen others take some interesting approaches to wearable smart glasses; Atheer’s smart glasses not only provide a heads up display, but also provide gesture recognition, letting you interact with what you’re seeing.

BusinessWire - Atheer Wins Compass Intelligence Enterprise Product Innovation of the Year Award

Atheer, the company pioneering Augmented interactive Reality™ (AiR) by combining the power of 3D augmented reality with gesture-based interaction, today announced it has won the “Enterprise Product Innovation of the Year” award from Compass Intelligence, a leading market intelligence and consulting firm specializing in mobility, IT and M2M industries. Alberto Torres, CEO of Atheer, accepted the award during a special luncheon hosted by Compass Intelligence at the 2015 International CES® trade show in Las Vegas.

eWeek - Google Glass Inspires Other Smart Eyewear Competitors

Atheer Labs offers its Augmented interactive Reality (AiR) platform, which includes the company's AiR Smart Glasses and its AiR OS. These smart glasses can be used today by workers to see and interact with digital information on a screen in front of their eyes.

BusinessWire - Media Advisory: Atheer Showcases Gesture-Controlled AiR™Smart Glasses at CES 2015

WHAT: Atheer, the company pioneering Augmented interactive Reality (AiR™) Smart Glasses by combining the power of mobile 3D augmented reality with gesture-based interaction, will be showcasing their latest technology through live demos at CES 2015. Atheer invites partners, potential customers, and media to experience first-hand how the AiR platform can be used to improve real-world enterprise workflows.

Businesswire - Atheer Secures Former Nokia and Vertu Design Chief to Lead Design and User Experience

With more than two decades of global award-winning industrial design and user interaction experience, Nuovo will work with the team to lead Atheer’s design strategy as it introduces a new class of 3D smart glasses – a platform to power productive workflows for the workforce of the 21st century.

Frank Nuovo, who worked as Nokia's chief of design for 11 years and also founded the luxury smartphone company Vertu, will be joining the startup Atheer Labs as its design chief, Business Insider has learned. Atheer Labs is developing an augmented reality headset for commercial use in hospitals, on construction sites, and other environments in which the hands-free technology makes sense.

Thanks to companies like Atheer Labs, augmented reality is no longer a thing of science fiction and cinema. It’s being used right now, and Atheer wants to bring the technology to the industrial workplace sooner than you’d think.

One of the key messages taken away from this year’s OnMobile conference was that while Google Glass may never become a widely accepted consumer product (and there has been plenty of recent evidence to support this), technologists are already moving quickly to bring new products to market that will usher us into the gesture-based world.

FOX NEWS - 3-D glasses offer hands-free computing for doctors

There’s no shortage of tech companies working on cutting-edge medical innovations and now, one company has developed a new 3-D platform for health care professionals.

GIZMODO Brazil - Um olhar através do Oculus Rift no mundo submerso do petróleo

(Original text in Portuguese) GE today opened its first Global Research Center in Brazil: it is in Rio de Janeiro, the UFRJ Technology Park (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), and has a team of 140 researchers and engineers working in innovation.

Businesswire - Atheer Selected to Join Dassault Systèmes Technology Partners Program

Atheer, the company pioneering Augmented interactive Reality™ (AiR), combining the power of 3D augmented reality with gesture-based computing interaction, today announced it has joined Dassault Systèmes’ Technology Partners Program.

When you take into consideration that ABI Research expects 90 million wearable devices to ship worldwide by the end of 2014.

FierceMobileIT - Minority Report flashback: Atheer Labs brings augmented reality to the enterprise

Watching the demonstration of Atheer Labs' augmented reality goggles here at Compass Intelligence's GoMobile 2014, I had a flashback of Tom Cruise in the movie Minority Report.