Bose AR is a new way to experience audio.
Bose AR is a new way to experience audio.
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Bose AR shows off augmented reality audio games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 2 min

Bose is the last company you’d expect to make a pair of glasses. But that’s what it is doing with Bose AR, which enhances the world around you not with visuals but with sound.

I listened to these glasses at the recent PAX East game fan show in Boston. That was an unusual experience because I had to listen, not look.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.