Google has reportedly shelved a multi-year project that sought to commercialize an AR headset, known as Project Iris. Provided the report is true, it appears Google will now need to rely on Samsung to compete with Meta and Apple...

Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, the company’s work-focused version of its iconic but once maligned smartglasses, is being discontinued. Google says in a device support FAQ that, starting March 15th, it will no longer sell Glass Enterprise 2, adding that it...

Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft's HoloLens team, has left the company to take on the role of Director of XR Engineering at the recently formed Google Labs. A report by The Verge maintains Google is also now gearing...

Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, the company's most recent smartglasses (or rather smartglass), was only available to partner companies when it launched in May 2019. Now Google is allowing its third-party hardware vendors to sell the headset direct to...

ARCore, Google's developer platform for building augmented reality experiences, is getting an update today that aims to make shared AR experiences quicker and more reliable. Additionally, Google is also rolling out support for Augmented Faces on iOS, the company's 3D...

Google has released to researchers and developers its own mobile device-based hand tracking method using machine learning, something Google Research engineers Valentin Bazarevsky and Fan Zhang call a "new approach to hand perception." First unveiled at CVPR 2019 back in June, Google's on-device, real-time...

Google Lens is great for when you want to quickly translate a menu written in a foreign language, or visually explore the world around you simply using your Android smartphone. In effort to bring some of those machine learning...

If you've felt that Google has been quiet about their Daydream VR initiative for a worrying amount of time, you aren't alone. Their annual developer conference, Google I/O, this week is the latest opportunity for the company update the...

Google is allegedly developing a standalone augmented reality headset that aims to offer users a tethereless AR experience, German tech publication WinFuture reports. WinFuture maintains they've obtained documents proving the existence of the Google AR headset project, which internally carries the code name...

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 developers create multi-user applications where devices can share an augmented environment. ARCore launched earlier this year,...

Aparna Chennapragada, VP of Product for AR/VR at Google, took to the stage at Google's I/O developer conference today to tease some of the work the company is doing to integrate augmented reality into Google Maps. Chennapragada says the team...

During the Google Developer Day presentation at GDC 2018, Product Manager Clementine Jacoby and Engineering Lead Patrick Donelan at Google Maps presented the team’s progress in bringing their technology and data to game developers. Several ‘location-based’ AR games using...

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 appears Google will be taking the stage to introduce a number of new products and...

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 flagship smartphones in its 1.0 version. Google Lens, the company's tool to help users identify real-world...

Google recently launched an augmented reality mode for the Android version of its video capture app Motion Stills, which brings the ability to insert AR objects into the world so you can record GIFs and video. Much like Google's AR...