Augmented Reality
Facebook Teases “Mixed Reality” Capabilities of Santa Cruz Headset
Facebook's VP of AR/VR Andrew “Boz” Bosworth showed a quick glimpse of a "mixed reality" game of soccer using...
Leap Motion Teases Prototype ‘Collapsible’ User Interface for AR Headsets
Leap Motion, the company behind the hand-tracking depth sensor, recently tweeted out another through-the-headset view of a prototype UI,...
AR From an Architect’s Perspective, Spatial Computing, & Leap Motion’s North Star AR HMD
Keiichi Matsuda went from being a dystopian filmmaker to becoming the Vice President of Design at hand-tracking company Leap...
ANTVR to Launch $500 ‘Mix’ AR Headset on Kickstarter in May
AntVR, the Beijing-based company known for their 2014 VR headset Kickstarter, is launching a new crowdfunding campaign soon focusing...
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...
Facebook is Using Target Tracking to Unlock AR Experiences From Movie Posters and More
Facebook is expanding its augmented reality platform to make it possible for developers to create AR content tied to...
New Jersey Utility Uses Augmented Reality to Visualise Underground Infrastructure
vGIS, a new geographic information system (GIS) visualisation platform from the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) partner Meemim, is...
4 Interesting New ARCore Apps Hitting Google Play Store
ARCore, Google's augmented reality software development kit for Android devices, was recently made available on 13 flagship smartphones - giving...
Update: Weta’s Concept First-person Shooter is Really Coming to Magic Leap One
Magic Leap One, the upcoming AR headset from one of the most well-funded startups in history, is said to...
‘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...
The Difference Between Smartglasses & AR Glasses, and Why Everyone is Confused
2018 will see the introduction of a number of 'smartglasses'. Initially, very few of these products will be capable of...
Hasbro Jumps Into AR With Iron Man Hero Vision Toy
We've heard it numerous times before from augmented reality startups: "it'll turn you into a real life Iron Man!" Now Hasbro is...
Magic Leap to Partner with NBA to Bring Basketball to AR, Shaq’s Massive Head...
Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz took the stage at the Code Media conference last night to talk a little bit...
‘Star Wars: Jedi Challenges’ for Lenovo Mirage AR Gets First Content Expansion Since Launch
If you haven't touched your Lenovo Mirage AR headset since Christmas, now may be the time to jump back...
Facebook Open-sources ‘Detectron’ Computer Vision Algorithm for AR Research
Facebook announced this week the open-sourcing of Detectron, the company's platform for computer vision object detection algorithm based on...