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 difference between individual objects in an image or video. Segmentation will be key for making...

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 which are set to work directly with the user's smartphone. Partners include CMCC, Deutsche Telekom, KDDI...

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 was still years away from having a working contact lens with more than just a...

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 toolkit for building AR apps on iOS devices. Though Apple has yet to reveal (or even...

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 designed to run through web browsers with wide reach across devices. In what the company calls...

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 its geo-location games, the company has been building out a world-scale framework which it believes...

HP this week announced its 'xRServices' program which equips customers of its industrial printers with a HoloLens 2 headset, allowing the company to provide immersive remote support for repairs, training, and more. While many AR companies are focused on building...

Today Facebook announced that it plans to expand the capabilities of its Spark AR platform to give developers more tools to build experiences that leverage existing smartphone-based AR and the company's upcoming AR glasses. Facebook has made no secret that...

Facebook announced today that an upcoming update to the Quest development SDK will include experimental support for a Passthrough API which will allow Unity developers to build AR experiences and features into apps on Quest 2. Although Quest wasn't launched...

Red 6, a company building an aircraft platform with augmented reality capabilities designed for military training, says it has raised a $30 million Series A investment to further its mission. Founded in 2018, Red 6 is the creator of the...

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 sensor-rich pair of glasses which the company will use to train its AR perception systems...

Mozilla has released a major revamp of its WebXR Viewer app on iOS, bringing support for the latest version of the WebXR standard, which allows AR and VR experiences to run from the web on the iPhone and iPad. Mozilla...

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 toward the enterprise space. Now, it appears those layoffs have been avoided with a fresh...

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 make it easier for AR developers by providing what it calls a "unified in-browser solution"...

Epic Games today released a new video featuring a demo for HoloLens 2 that aims to show off just what sort of graphics can be achieved on Microsoft's latest standalone AR headset. Called Apollo 11: Mission AR, the interactive demo is...