Augmented Reality
Lenovo Mirage AR Headset Returns with New Marvel Game & 6DOF Controllers
Lenovo first released its smartphone-powered Mirage AR headset last year alongside its sole title, Star Wars: Jedi Challenges (2018), a collection of short AR games...
Snapchat to Raise $1 Billion to Further Build Content, Gaming, and AR
Snap Inc, the company behind the ever popular Snapchat, plans to raise $1 billion in short-term debt to further develop the content, gaming, and...
Tilt Five Shows AR Tech Aimed at Revolutionizing Tabletop Gaming
Tilt Five is creating a tabletop AR platform aimed at fusing traditional board games with the benefits of augmented reality. This week the company...
Report: Apple to Announce ARKit Updates at WWDC 2019 Including OS Support for AR...
Apple has been continuously iterating on ARKit, its augmented reality development tool that lets creators make smartphone-based AR experiences. The company unveiled ARKit at...
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...
New Startup Artie Wants to Bring AI-driven Avatars to Augmented Reality
Former Felix & Paul chief content officer Ryan Horrigan and former Milk VR and VRSE.works producer Armando Kirwin have banded together to found Artie,...
Chinese Tech Giant Huawei Aims to Commercialize AR Headset in 1-2 Years
As the world's largest telecom manufacturer, when Chinese tech giant Huawei makes a market prediction, they have plenty of room to speak. Talking in...
10 Projects That Have Us Excited About the Next Generation of VR & AR
With leading high-end VR headsets debuting in 2016, we've had about two years to see what the first-generation VR experience looks like. While there's...
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...
Leap Motion Reveals First Extended Demo Shot Through North Star Headset
Back in April Leap Motion first revealed North Star, a prototype AR headset that's designed to replicate the features of a future high-end AR...
Leap Motion Open-sources Project North Star, An AR Headset Prototype With Impressive Specs
Earlier this year Leap Motion had been teasing some very compelling AR interface prototypes, demonstrated on an unknown headset. The company revealed that the...
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...
Varjo Reveals Add-on for High Quality Pass-through AR, Launching in 2019
The first version of Varjo's 'bionic display' enterprise VR headset is due out later this year (see our latest hands-on), and the company has...
Google to Support Multi-user Shared AR Apps with ‘Cloud Anchors’ in ARCore
Today at Google I/O 2018, Google announced upgrades to its ARCore augmented reality technology, including a new feature called Cloud Anchors which will let...
Matt Miesnieks on the State of the AR Ecosystem
Matt Miesnieks is creating an AR cloud with 6D.AI, which aims to "synchronize 3D computer vision data across devices, time and space" in order...
