AR Development
Magic Leap Commits to OpenXR & WebXR Support Later This Year on ML2
In an ongoing shift away from a somewhat proprietary development environment on its first headset, Magic Leap has committed to bringing OpenXR support to...
Niantic is Bringing Its Large-scale AR Positioning System to WebAR Too
This week Niantic announced Lightship VPS, a system designed to make possible accurate localization of AR devices at a large scale to enable location-based...
Niantic Launches City-scale Visual Positioning System for Location-based, Multi-user AR
Niantic today launched its Lightship Visual Positioning System at its first developer summit. The system aims to form an underlying 3D map of the...
Bored During Lockdown? Get an Intro to Quest Development in This Live Online Workshop
An upcoming online workshop by XR development educator Circuit Stream will teach developers the basics of building applications for Oculus Quest.
With many of us...
Magic Leap Releases Toolkit With Pre-built Components for Easier AR Development
Magic Leap has released a new set of development components in a 'Magic Leap Toolkit' (MLTK) which includes a slew of pre-built tools which...
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...
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...
