AR Development
Apple Announces ARKit 3 with Body Tracking & Human Occlusion
At the company's annual WWDC developer conference today, Apple revealed ARKit 3, its latest set of developer tools for creating AR applications on iOS....
Dent Reality Aims to Bring AR Indoor Directions to Malls, Airports & Retail Stores
Navigating indoors is still a pretty old school experience: you look for a map of shops, bathrooms, and accessibility ramps and follow signs to...
HoloLens 2 Hits the Ground as the U.S. Army’s Own AR “combat multiplier”
Microsoft won a decisive $480 million defense contract with the U.S. Army late last year to bring the company's AR hardware platform to the...
Scope AR Secures $9.7M Series A to Develop AR Training & Remote Assistance Tools
Scope AR, the enterprise-focused AR studio, today announced it has successfully closed a $9.7 million Series A funding round to further develop it cross-platform...
Mozilla Announces ‘Firefox Reality’ AR Web Browser for Hololens 2
Today at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain Mozilla announced a collaboration with Microsoft to bring the Firefox Reality web browser to the recently...
Researchers Transform Real Soccer Matches into Tabletop AR Reconstructions
The FIFA World Cup finals are nearly here, and while we still live in a time where most everyone interested in the France vs....
Niantic Offers Tantalizing Peek at Upcoming AR Tech, Announces New Platform for Third-party Devs
Niantic, the developer behind Pokémon Go and the upcoming Harry Potter AR game, announced they'll be opening up access to their latest work in...
Adobe’s Project Aero Aims to Help Creators Build AR Content
Adobe recently unveiled a new project that aims to take the company further into the realm of augmented reality. Called Project Aero, the newly...
Amazon’s VR/AR Creation Tool ‘Sumerian’ Now Available to General Public
Amazon today announced that Sumerian, a tool that aims to make creating web-based applications for VR/AR and traditional monitors an easy process, is now available to...
Vive Pro Gets AR Capabilities Thanks to HTC’s New Tools for Front-facing Cameras
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...
Augmented Reality Startup Ubiquity6 Emerges from Stealth With $10.5M in Funding
Ubiquity6, an augmented reality startup only a few months out of stealth, today announced a $10.5M Series A round led by Index Ventures, with First...
Google to Announce New Dev Tools at GDC 2018, Keynote to Feature AR/VR
This year's Game Developers Conference (GDC) is nearly upon us, and now that talks for the week-long event are published on the GDC website, it...
‘Yahoo! MAP’ for iOS Now Has AR Navigation Mode in Japan
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...
Google Brings ARCore 1.0 to Multiple Flagship Smartphones, Google Lens Preview Soon
Ahead of Mobile World Congress (MWC) next week, Google announced it's bringing ARCore, it's augmented reality SDK, out of preview and to a number of...
ARKit Recreation of ‘The Ring’ TV Scene Foretells AR’s Inevitable Weirdness
Let's face it, when augmented reality headsets and glasses become commonplace, the world is going to get weird in a lot of unexpected ways....