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Augmented Reality

Dell Partners With Meta to Sell Meta 2 AR Dev Kit in February

Dell and AR headset manufacturer Meta announced a new partnership, allowing Dell to be the first third-party seller of the Meta 2 Augmented Reality Development Kit. Dell says that through the partnership, they'll also be able to provide both the...

NextVR Plans 6DOF, Increased Quality, and AR Support for Live VR Video in 2018

Today, live event broadcasting specialists NextVR announced three technology advancements to their platform coming this year: six degrees of freedom-enabled content, higher resolution output, and augmented reality support. A sneak peek of the technologies is being shown to media...

Vuzix to Debut ‘Blade’ Smartglasses at CES Next Week

Vuzix today announced they'll be unveiling their latest smartglasses at this year's CES in Las Vegas. Called Vuzix Blade, the smartglasses are more of a heads-up display akin to Google Glass than a positionally-tracked AR headset like Microsoft Hololens or the upcoming...

‘Pokémon GO’ Now Uses Apple’s ARKit on iOS 11, Bringing Pokémon Closer to Reality

Pokémon GO, the massively successful location-based mobile game, just got an update on iOS 11 thanks to Apple's ARKit that gives iPhone 6s and above more realistic Pokémon-catching encounters. Since it was released in summer 2016, Pokémon GO has been hailed as an augmented reality...

Magic Leap AR Headset Hands-on Offers Details on Field of View, Weight & Content

In a surprise move, Magic Leap finally released images and info regarding their upcoming Magic Leap One AR headset today. Hard specs are still thin on the ground at the moment, but it appears that press embargoes on information are finally being lifted as the...

Magic Leap Finally Unveils its First AR Product ‘Magic Leap One’, Shipping Starts in 2018

After the long wait, Magic Leap, the secretive augmented reality startup, finally unveiled its first AR headset. Releasing first as a 'Creator Edition', the so-called 'Magic Leap One' AR headset is said to start shipping in 2018. While the company has...
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Snapchat Launches Lens Studio for Making AR ‘Lenses’

Lens Studio is a new Mac and Windows desktop app from Snap Inc. for creating, publishing, and sharing augmented reality objects and experiences in Snapchat, as overlays known as ‘Lenses’. The free software has several templates for getting started,...

Magic Leap Reveals Music App Collaboration with Sigur Rós, New Images

Magic Leap today revealed a collaborative AR project with Icelandic band Sigur Rós, a musical experience which fills the player's surroundings with ethereal visuals and an interactive soundscape. Secretive startup Magic Leap still hasn't officially revealed the AR headset that they're...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 to Improve AR/VR Rendering & Reduce Power Consumption “by 30%”

Qualcomm introduced it's new Snapdragon 845 mobile processor at the company's tech summit in Hawaii this week, which Qualcomm says improves mobile AR/VR headset (branded to as 'XR', or 'eXtended reality') performance up to 30 percent in comparison to...

HTC Invests in 26 More AR/VR Startups in Vive X Accelerator

HTC today announced its third batch of AR/VR startups backed by the company's Vive X accelerator program. A total of 26 new companies from across the world have been selected to participate in the program with the goal of "building...
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‘HotStepper’ Gives You AR Directions with the Help of a Silly Half-naked Man

Thanks to augmented reality, the world is about to get weird. Real weird. Thankfully we're not the only ones who think so, because Nexus Studios, the minds behind the inside-out VR tracking solution using ARKit, today launched HotStepper, an iOS wayfinding app that...

‘Pokémon GO’ Makers Announce Harry Potter AR Game, Releasing 2018

Niantic, the minds behind Ingress and the smash hit Pokémon GO, have partnered with Warner Bros and WB Games to bring a new location-based Harry Potter-themed AR game to mobile phones. Called Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the game will let you battle fantastic beasts in...

Daqri is Now Shipping Its AR Smart Glasses to Professionals

DAQRI, the Los Angeles-based AR headset company, is now shipping its Daqri Smart Glasses to professionals. Much like Microsoft's HoloLens, Daqri's Smart Glasses are targeting professionals in industries like manufacturing, field services, maintenance and repair, inspections, construction, etc. Selling for $5000 (the same as HoloLens Commercial...

Microsoft to Expand HoloLens Availability to 29 More European Markets in December

Microsoft announced at their at Future Decoded conference in London that HoloLens, the company's augmented reality headset, will be expanding its international availability to include all of the European Union in December. HoloLens is currently only officially available in Australia, Canada, China, France,...

‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ Steps into Your Living Room with ARKit Prototype

Now that iOS 11 has officially rolled out and anyone with a recent Apple device has access to augmented reality applications, the massive install base means developers can start appealing to all sorts of people, including those miniature ones that make a...
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