Banking has hardly changed until very recently. Yes, in the early 2000’s we started slowly adopting telephone banking, then there was Internet banking, now there is mobile banking. However, all of this ‘innovation’ simply changed how we access banking, not how we bank. I believe the upcoming changes  will change how we bank too, hopefully, making ... Read more

This week we talked with Calum McHardy– director of Unicom. Unicom offers a wide range of digital services relating to 3D animation and digital presentation. However, our talk concerned Company Connecting’s continuing theme of Augmented reality. Hi Calum, could you tell us what Unicom is all about and how your business is structured?We’ve grown from ... Read more

We spoke with Trevor Jones, an artist and director of Creativtek to get his views of AR and art. Creativtek has developed the Creativmuse platform which enables artists to add AR to their artwork. Trevor believes that art is about communicating ideas and that AR is a perfect tool for artists. Tell us a little ... Read more

This Week we spoke with Andrew Jackson, Director at UK based Augmented Reality firm ooh-AR Hi Andrew, could you tell us how you got into ARFor the last 29 years our company has provided contract publishing services, producing magazines and newspapers around the world. Digital projects have been introduced over the years, and about 4 years ago ... Read more

This week we sat down with Kate Stevenson of Scottish Augmented Reality firm Ariis AR to talk about her perception of the industry and the future of the technology. Hi Kate, Broadly speaking what is your business strategy? ell, compared with more mainstream apps like Blipper we’re not focusing on the general public. We’re more interested ... Read more

Continuing with our series of Company Connecting infographics, our infographic this week covers a number of related areas i.e. IT companies working in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, 3D, Animation, GIS, 3D Visualisation and Graphics. Out of our database of 3,400+ companies there are 226 working in these specialist areas. 68% of the companies have less than ... Read more

“Fairy Glen School for Fairies – An Adventurous Journey”, is a full colour digitally illustrated children’s book, developed by David Plested as part of his University degree curriculum. The business idea was to create a product that could help parents better connect their children to nature and the environment. The story is set within a ... Read more

How did you get into IT? I met my business partner Scott last September and we got talking about the idea. After doing research and attending several trade shows up and down the country, we decided we had to go for it and make our idea a reality. Was this an entirely new area for ... Read more

Simplistically Virtual Reality (VR) is a computer generated simulation of something real which the user is immersed in. Augmented Reality (AR) is exactly what it says, it’s computer generated enhancements layered on top of the real world. VR has surfaced at several points over the past twenty years, as technology that shows promise for the ... Read more