Citing sources close to the deal, TechCrunch reports that VR headset maker Vrvana has been acquired by Apple for $30 million. Vrvana is a little known VR headset maker that's been on the scene since 2014. The company was building...

Thanks to augmented reality, the world is about to get weird. Real weird. Thankfully we're not the only ones who think so, because Nexus Studios, the minds behind the inside-out VR tracking solution using ARKit, today launched HotStepper, an iOS wayfinding app that...

With the release of iOS 11, hundreds of millions of Apple devices gained the ability to perform basic augmented reality functions, albeit viewed through the screens of iPhones and iPads. While capable of providing some pretty useful and interesting apps, the next logical...

Apple CEO Tim Cook thinks augmented reality is going to be something big, a fairly simple claim to make thanks to the company's recent inclusion of its AR tech into every Apple device capable of updating to iOS 11. But...

Now that iOS 11 has officially rolled out and anyone with a recent Apple device has access to augmented reality applications, the massive install base means developers can start appealing to all sorts of people, including those miniature ones that make a...

As first to market with a robust augmented reality function baked right into its mobile operating system, the various projects we've seen using Apple's smartphone-based AR platform have tended to range from the useful, to the artful, to the...

Apple's newest iteration of the iOS mobile operating system is here, and with it comes the ability to turn your iOS 11 compatible device into an honest-to-goodness augmented reality viewer. Thanks to a few months of lead time with...

Apple is rolling out iOS 11 today, its mobile operating system that's compatible with "hundreds of millions of devices" including iPhones going back to the iPhone 5s, and a variety of recent iPads. If your device is able to...

Apple's iOS 11 is coming to compatible devices starting September 19th, which means that if you own a recent Apple iPhone or iPad, you may have an augmented reality-capable device in your hands before the new iPhone line even...

With ARKit in the wild for a few months now, Apple's special iPhone 8 event was the place to announce the coming wave of augmented reality apps. Senior VP of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller took the stage to introduce...

Today at 10am PDT, Apple is releasing news about upcoming products like the new iPhone 8 and Watch, taking place at the company's newly debuted Steve Jobs Theater. Among the announcements, many of which have supposedly already been leaked, is sure...

ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they're integrated their company's smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit, making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone's onboard processors and...

In an answer to Apple's recently released ARKit, a developer tool used for making augmented reality apps and games that run on newer iPad and iPhones, Google today released a preview of a new Android-compatible software development kit (SDK) called ARCore. Google prides...

The mantra goes: If it's possible, someone will eventually build it. That statement rings true for everything from the weird and spastic games like Mosh Pit Simulator or hardware add-ons like the pulsating haptic skin from Omnipulse, and while I'm just...

What's that building in the distance? Where's the nearest Starbucks? How do I get to there from here? These are questions you'd likely find answers to in your smartphone's map application—but with Apple's ARKit, one developer showed it could...