Nreal CEO Chi Xu interview: Advancing AR’s future, one step at a time
If you follow the dollars from major technology companies and cellular carriers, it’s clear the consumer electronics world is betting augmented reality will be...
Apple’s Imagination Technologies deal is all about ray tracing and AR
Apple sent Imagination Technologies’ stock into a tailspin when it decided in 2017 to end its licensing contract with the storied British graphics chip...
What’s next for consumer AR in 2020
True augmented reality hasn’t found an easy path to consumer adoption. In spite of general understanding of how AR hardware and software should theoretically...
Google’s ARCore Depth API enables AR depth maps and occlusion with one camera
Android augmented reality is about to take some nice steps forward today, as Google is adding a major new feature to its ARCore toolkit...
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit underlined the risks of relying on partners
From my perspective, attending this year’s Snapdragon Tech Summit was all but mandatory for a journalist covering 5G: It offered the very first opportunity to...
Qualcomm interview: Snapdragon XR’s future, from wired to 5G, VR to AR
Day three of Qualcomm’s 2019 Snapdragon Tech Summit is a big one for mixed reality — VR, AR, and XR — thanks to the...
Niantic and Qualcomm will build AR glasses for world-scale games
Fresh off today’s announcement of the Snapdragon XR2 mobile platform, Qualcomm has revealed an impressively ambitious early partner for its latest mixed reality effort:...
Apple delaying AR glasses until 2022 would be bad for XR, but no shock
Years ago, an Apple loyalist claimed the company was being unfairly criticized for delaying products that had been widely reported to be on the...
Microsoft starts shipping Hololens 2 for $3,500
Microsoft unveiled Hololens 2, its second-generation augmented reality headset, earlier this year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Seattle company’s been taking preorders...
An Apple-Valve AR headset deal makes sense given iOS 13’s StarBoard
Apple rumors are perennially popular for two major reasons: First, the company’s actual announcements are so few and far between that only “what’s next?” speculation...