Konica Minolta counts on augmented reality technology for upcoming product innovations

Having started with an investment in the Austrian start-up Wikitude last year during the Pioneers Festival – the world’s leading mobile augmented reality (AR) technology provider for smartphones, tablets and digital eyewear – Konica Minolta is now also collaborating with one other start-up, namely Anyline, also from Austria. Anyline is a mobile text recognition technology, which enables smartphones to turn any text in a camera’s vision field into digital output, such as for scanning blood sugar meters, gas