Augmented Reality
Meta Shows New Progress on Key Tech for Making AR Genuinely Useful
Meta has introduced the Segment Anything Model, which aims to set a new bar for computer-vision-based 'object segmentation'—the ability for computers to understand the...
Qualcomm Partners with 7 Major Telecoms to Advance Smartphone-tethered AR Glasses
Qualcomm announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC) today it's partnering with seven global telecommunication companies in preparation for the next generation of AR glasses...
Hands-on: Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens is Further Along Than You Might Think
Having not had a chance to see Mojo Vision's latest smart contact lens for myself until recently, I'll admit that I expected the company...
Apple Reveals Improvements Coming in ARKit 6 for Developers
Earlier this month during Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC 2022, the company gave developers the first look at improvements coming to Apple's ARKit 6...
‘Pokémon GO’ Developer Niantic Acquires WebAR Company 8th Wall
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon GO, the Lightship AR SDK, and more, announced this week that it has acquired 8th Wall, creators of AR development tools...
Niantic Raises $300M Investment at $9 Billion Valuation to build “real-world metaverse”
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon GO, today announced it has raised a $300 million Series D investment which values the company at $9 billion. Beyond...
HP is Using HoloLens to Help Customers Remotely Repair Industrial Printers
HP this week announced its 'xRServices' program which equips customers of its industrial printers with a HoloLens 2 headset, allowing the company to provide...
Facebook Boosts AR Developers Tools for Forthcoming AR Glasses
Today Facebook announced that it plans to expand the capabilities of its Spark AR platform to give developers more tools to build experiences that...
Facebook is Unlocking AR Capabilities for Developers on Quest 2
Facebook announced today that an upcoming update to the Quest development SDK will include experimental support for a Passthrough API which will allow Unity...
Red 6 Raises $30 Million for In-flight Military AR Training Platform
Red 6, a company building an aircraft platform with augmented reality capabilities designed for military training, says it has raised a $30 million Series...
Project Aria is Facebook’s Prototype AR Glasses Which Start Real-world Testing This Month
Facebook is continuing its push toward delivering AR glasses and it's showing some of its development out in the open; Project Aria is a...
Mozilla Releases Firefox-based ‘WebXR Viewer’ App for Browser-based AR on iOS
Mozilla has released a major revamp of its WebXR Viewer app on iOS, bringing support for the latest version of the WebXR standard, which...
[Update] Magic Leap Secures $350M Funding to Avoid Previously Announced Layoffs
Magic Leap announced last month that layoffs impacting "every level of the company" were coming alongside a pivot away from its near-term consumer ambitions...
8th Wall Launches Cloud-based WebAR Development Tools & Hosting Platform
8th Wall, a Palo Alto-based company creating augmented reality development tools, today announced the release of its cloud-based authoring and hosting platform which aims to...
Epic’s HoloLens 2 Demo ‘Apollo 11: Mission AR’ Showcases Impressive PC-quality Graphics
Epic Games today released a new video featuring a demo for HoloLens 2 that aims to show off just what sort of graphics can...
