augmented reality

Tommaso Di Bartolo posing with AR challenge participants

Students Develop Innovative Ideas for AI app in SCET AR Startup Product Design Challenge

The SCET Student Innovation Fellows’ AR Startup Product Design Challenge was a resounding success! The final four teams came together at our pitch event at the SCET and presented their thorough, innovative ideas about additions to the Phygtl app to none other than Phygtl CEO Tommaso Di Bartolo and AR Expert Kathy Wang!  – Check out “The Role of Augmented…

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John Hanke: Google Maps and Pokémon Go

This week, students in the A. Richard Newton Lecture Series had the opportunity to hear a fireside chat with John Hanke—a Cal grad and CEO of Niantic, which produced the wildly popular app Pokémon Go—moderated by Dr. Bjoern Hartmann, EECS professor and director of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley. The two…

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VR/ARticle-Why Today Is Different Than Yesterday

If you are reading this on a laptop then we are not in the future yet. How nice would it be to have a nice view of anything from anywhere? Well, that is what virtual reality is aiming for! If you don’t know what VR is, then we are certainly not in the future yet….

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