The Waypoint and recently acquired Reality Editor™ software currently make up the PTC Reality Lab, a PTC incubation zone for emerging augmented reality technologies. PTC is working to integrate these newly acquired technologies into its existing augmented reality portfolio.
Continued Support for AR Devices
To make its entire AR
portfolio more accessible and impactful, PTC continues to collaborate
with leading hardware makers to advance the adoption of value-driving AR
experiences. Today, PTC is announcing its immediate support of
Realwear
and
Vuzix
devices.
Collaboration with Local Organizations to Advance AR Innovation
PTC
has become the newest member of the
MIT
Media Lab, an interdisciplinary research lab that encourages the
unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research
areas. This collaboration will focus on understanding and building
disruptive applications for AR and other technologies, with the goal of
leading companies to new levels of operational efficiency and business
fulfillment.
PTC also recently announced a philanthropic project with Boston Children's Hospital, the number one pediatric hospital in the United States, to explore the use of augmented reality to help children with autism and related developmental disorders communicate and learn more effectively. The collaboration explores how augmented reality may be used to help children with autism understand tasks and the world more fully, by helping to bridge the physical and digital worlds by overlaying an image onto a physical environment. This passion project offers an opportunity for AR technology to make a real difference and improve lives.
Accolades, Adoption, and LiveWorx 18
The Vuforia platform
has received accolades from industry experts and analysts, including a
recent
award from Compass Intelligence for top B2B augmented reality application.
The Vuforia platform continues to be widely adopted, with over 6,500
customers using Vuforia in industrial settings. In addition, more than
10,000 participants have joined PTC’s Vuforia Studio Free Trial program,
providing valuable feedback on use case priorities and hardware
requirements, and over 500,000 registered developers use Vuforia as
their preferred platform to create AR apps.
The topic of AR will take center stage at LiveWorx 18 in keynotes, as well as special sessions in which many customers, partners, developers, and industry analysts will discuss their use cases and benefits derived from the adoption of the Vuforia platform and other PTC AR solutions.
Additional Resources
- PTC Augmented Reality
- LiveWorx 18
- Harvard Business Review: “Why Every Organization Needs an AR Strategy,” authored by PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann and Harvard Professor Michael Porter
About PTC (NASDAQ:
PTC)
PTC helps companies around the world
reinvent the way they design, manufacture, operate, and service products
in and for a smart, connected world. In 1986 we revolutionized digital
3D design, and in 1998 were first to market with Internet-based product
lifecycle management. Today, our leading industrial innovation platform
and field-proven solutions enable you to unlock value at the convergence
of the physical and digital worlds. With PTC, manufacturers and an
ecosystem of partners and developers can capitalize on the promise of
the Internet of Things and augmented reality technology today and drive
the future of innovation.
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