Sixense hires HTC Vive’s Joel Breton to run VR and AR content studio
Sixense Enterprises has hired former HTC Vive executive Joel Breton to run a virtual reality and augmented reality content studio, dubbed Sixense Studios, as the...
The top 9 companies with the most AR/VR job postings
New data from job site Indeed shows that the share of job postings per million for augmented reality and virtual reality increased by 21.86%...
How Facebook is building safety and empathy into AR/VR avatars and shared spaces
Facebook has made both augmented reality and virtual reality experiences that reach a lot of people — more than a billion users in the...
Facebook adds Windows support to Spark AR Studio
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the Spark AR Studio augmented reality app creation platform will now have support for Windows and Mac,...
The outlook for investing in a more rational VR/AR market
Last week, I made my way to the Microsoft Reactor in San Francisco for the VR Arcade conference. I moderated a panel on investing in...
Newzoo: AR has a far bigger opportunity on mobile than VR
Virtual reality is clunky. Augmented reality is less so. And so it makes sense that AR has a bigger opportunity on mobile devices than...
WarDucks raises $3.8 million for augmented reality game studio
WarDucks has raised $3.8 million in funding to launch a location-based augmented reality game studio, and it has tapped Doom co-creator John Romero for...
Unity’s AR Foundation enables developers to publish AR apps on both iOS and Android
Unity Technologies has announced that its AR Foundation update for the Unity Editor tool will enable game developers to quickly create AR software that...
Khronos Group releases early OpenXR spec for AR and VR hardware standards
The Khronos Group has announced the ratification and public release of the OpenXR 0.90 provisional specification for royalty-free standards related to augmented reality (AR) and...
Infinite Retina will make apps and experiences for ‘spatial computing’
Infinite Retina is debuting today as a digital agency specializing in apps and experiences for “spatial computing” platforms. Spatial computing is another way of...