The most trusted provider of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) management software, Cority, has recently announced a partnership with Interaptix, provider of augmented reality solutions for the industrial workforce, to strengthen worker safety by providing real-time, contextually relevant health, safety, and environmental information to enable rapid and effective decision-making to reduce risk.

Mentioning digital technology in the same sentence as viruses probably makes your first thought hackers, not headsets, however, one college is using augmented reality to combat a different kind of virus, using Microsoft HoloLens to learn how to treat COVID-19.

Mario Kart is the number one racing game that all the family can enjoy, and now, Nintendo is taking the game one step beyond the tv screen and moving the race right into the players home. 

Supplier of smart glasses and AR technology devices, Vuzix Corp. have announced a new partnership with the Netherlands National Police Unit, who will actively use the Vuzix Blade Smart Glasses to investigate the use of AR in its police force. The pilot program will be undertaken alongside a laboratory test with the universities of Leiden and Twente and the country’s police academy.

The Nreal Light mixed reality glasses, also known as the U+ Real Glass, are due to be shipped to Korea this month alongside the newly announced Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20.

The Care Chemical Academy of the chemical company BASF, has introduced Augmented Reality software from Holo-Light as well as Microsoft’s HoloLens AR-glasses to simplify and improve training in production

The University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) has completed a deal for one of the UK’s largest ever deployments of AR, with plans to use the technology across all three of it’s UK sites. 

AR has been significantly growing in popularity, ever since the summer of Pokémon Go, when experts predicted the widespread adoption of AR. Since then, the technology has been steadily growing as a force in media. AR technology has been moulded and adapted to fit the needs of different industries, and with the flexibility of this innovative technology and the endless use cases available the adoption of AR is set to be pushed forward in a major way.