AR/VR Weekly: Apple’s incremental approach
For anyone waiting for groundbreaking augmented reality or virtual reality news from Apple yesterday, sorry, you’re still going to wait. But the announcements that...
Apple shows off the first ARKit apps and games
Apple showcased a few apps and games that will be supporting ARKit right out of the gates at its 10th anniversary event today. The augmented reality...
Tenor lets developers put GIFs into augmented reality apps and games
Tenor is announcing a software development kit (SDK) for Unity and Apple’s ARKit developers, enabling them to integrate animated GIFs into augmented reality apps...
Google’s first ARCore goal: 100 million AR-capable Android phones
Earlier this week, Google announced ARCore, a software-based solution for making more Android devices AR-capable without the need for depth sensors and extra cameras. It...
AR/VR Weekly: Google makes augmented reality waves
Watch out, Apple and ARKit. Google’s getting into the AR dev kit game — and bringing augmented reality to potentially 2 billion Android devices. On...
Game Insight offers something new for Guns of Boom fans: Watching in AR
Game Insight has had more than 10 million downloads for Guns of Boom, and now it has figured out a novel way to increase...
Apple patent shows a controller-free way to interact with ARKit
Apple’s new ARKit platform basically looks like HoloLens inside of an iPhone. All that’s missing is a controller-free interaction system. A new patent uncovered...
AR/VR Weekly: Apple enters the fray
This week at its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Apple finally jumped into the augmented and virtual reality world. ARKit is Apple’s tool for making AR applications, and it was the first of several announcements that show that the iPhone company is ready to take the next step into a larger world.