Virtual/Augmented Reality

mdGroup acquires GeoCue to strengthen drone surveying offering, plans U.S. expansion

mdGroup has bought aerial Lidar mapping technology provider GeoCue Group for an undisclosed sum from its founders. The company already owns Microdrones, a Germany-based business that supplies aerial data to make digital twins of industrial sites. The acquisition was announced Monday and is expected to complement Microdrones’s existing offering including high-end surveying drones, photogrammetric measurement […]

For public agencies, proposed ‘metaverse’ has implications beyond social media—like predicting the spread of wildfire

For the past few weeks, talk of Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of the ‘metaverse’ has dominated the internet. The metaverse—a hypothesized evolution of the internet—would take websites and social media platforms one step further into virtual reality.   And it’s not just Meta Platforms Inc. (previously Facebook) that’s latched onto the idea. Other global tech companies including Microsoft and Nvidia are […]

Verizon survey: First responders ‘most dependent’ on smartphones—not LMR—on daily basis

Public safety currently depends slightly more on smartphones than land-mobile-radio (LMR) technology during a typical day, and this gap is expected to widen significantly in favor of smartphones and other broadband devices during the next five years, according to a national survey of first responders commissioned by Verizon Frontline. More than 3,000 people who “self-selected” […]
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