AR Archives - Page 8 of 18

Oculus founder roasts Magic Leap One as ‘HoloLens 1.1’, bemoaning hype

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 27, 2018
3 min

Controversial Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has posted a conceptual teardown of the Creator Edition on his personal blog, calling the augmented reality headset a "tragedy in the classical sense."

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Clash & Go is a blockchain game that blends strategy and AR

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 21, 2018
2 min

The world of augmented reality (AR) got a real shot in the arm in July 2016 with the launch of Pokémon Go. Until then,...

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A Microsoft retail employee demonstrates HoloLens's pinch-to-select gesture during a shopping mall demo.

Microsoft’s HoloLens mall demos bring early AR glasses to the masses

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 15, 2018
4 min

Microsoft recently added HoloLens AR headset demos to its retail stores, letting mall shoppers go hands-on with a potentially transformative technology. Underscore potentially.

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Facebook Messenger augmented reality games

Facebook launches AR games for Messenger group video chat

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 8, 2018
2 min

Facebook today announced the introduction of augmented reality games in group video chat with up to six people at once. AR games are available today...

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The HoloSuit delivers full-body tracking in a compact package

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 27, 2018
5 min

The HoloSuit is a full-body tracker designed for VR and AR platforms. It's impressive, but expensive.

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Digi-Capital launches AR-VR analytics platform

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 23, 2018
2 min

Augmented reality and virtual reality consulting firm Digi-Capital reported earlier this year that AR/VR startups raised over $3.6 billion in funding during a 12-month...

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The Magic Leap is a major AR story for the near future.

AR demos keep showing cool tech that just isn’t practical

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 16, 2018
3 min

New augmented reality announcements and demos now surface every day, but almost every piece of AR news suffers from the same issue: No matter...

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3 min

A drone equipped with Flight Goggles hardware.

Researchers use VR to train AI drones, cutting autonomous vehicle crashes

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 21, 2018
2 min

MIT researchers have developed a technique to train fast-moving autonomous AI drones using VR-enhanced environments, reducing crashes and thereby the need for repairs or...

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Google’s standalone AR headset is reportedly ‘not unlike’ Microsoft’s HoloLens

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 18, 2018
2 min

Google is still developing a standalone augmented reality headset that can overlay digital objects on the real world, according to a report in WinFuture. This...

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CSR Racing 2’s AR Mode speeds onto Android devices

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 16, 2018
2 min

Zynga‘s mobile game CSR Racing 2 is expanding its augmented reality showroom feature to include more devices. Before, only iOS devices supported the AR...

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