Facebook's VP of AR/VR Andrew “Boz” Bosworth showed a quick glimpse of a "mixed reality" game of soccer using Oculus Santa Cruz, the company's 6 DOF standalone VR headset prototype. This is the first hint that Santa Cruz could have...

Leap Motion, the company behind the hand-tracking depth sensor, recently tweeted out another through-the-headset view of a prototype UI, this time centered on how some simple elements might work in the "augmented office" of the near future. Using the company's prototype...

Keiichi Matsuda went from being a dystopian filmmaker to becoming the Vice President of Design at hand-tracking company Leap Motion. Matsuda is probably the most famous for his HYPER-REALITY dystopian film that imagined a commodified & gamified AR future...

AntVR, the Beijing-based company known for their 2014 VR headset Kickstarter, is launching a new crowdfunding campaign soon focusing on a hybrid AR headset called simply Mix. The makers are promising a bevy of bells and whistles, including the...

HTC has announced a new set of tools allowing developers to build applications which take advantage of the Vive Pro's stereo front-facing cameras, effectively turning the device into an AR headset dev kit. The new tools allow the cameras to...

Facebook is expanding its augmented reality platform to make it possible for developers to create AR content tied to physical objects such as logos, signs and posters. The company has already integrated a few examples of its 'AR Target Tracking'...

vGIS, a new geographic information system (GIS) visualisation platform from the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) partner Meemim, is being used to view underground infrastructure while wearing Microsoft Hololens. Piloted by Toms River Municipal Utilities Authority in New Jersey,...

ARCore, Google's augmented reality software development kit for Android devices, was recently made available on 13 flagship smartphones - giving over 100 million devices, the company says, the ability to run AR apps. At GDC today, Google highlighted two upcoming...

Magic Leap One, the upcoming AR headset from one of the most well-funded startups in history, is said to arrive sometime this year. While no real specs are known about the headset outside of a few choice bits revealed...

Yahoo! Japan just updated their iOS-based Map application to include a new experimental AR mode which superimposes a blue pathway onto the physical world for you to follow to your final destination. The AR function, which is only intended for...

2018 will see the introduction of a number of 'smartglasses'. Initially, very few of these products will be capable of augmented reality, but many of them will be (or already are being) conflated with AR. So here's a quick guide...

We've heard it numerous times before from augmented reality startups: "it'll turn you into a real life Iron Man!" Now Hasbro is taking the sentiment to heart with their upcoming AR toy which gives you an Iron Man mask, VR-style headset, AR markers, and a...

Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz took the stage at the Code Media conference last night to talk a little bit more about the company's upcoming AR headset, Magic Leap One. While we now know the headset will probably cost the...

If you haven't touched your Lenovo Mirage AR headset since Christmas, now may be the time to jump back in for the latest content expansion to the lightsaber-intensive Star Wars: Jedi Challenges. The content expansion, which is now available for free,...

Facebook announced this week the open-sourcing of Detectron, the company's platform for computer vision object detection algorithm based on a deep learning framework. The company says that its motive for opening up the project is to accelerate computer vision...