PGA Tour and Quintar expand augmented reality relationship
Golf suffered from reduced viewership during the years of the pandemic. Attendance is now increasing at live events. The PGA Tour hopes to keep...
Niantic announces Peridot, a new AR pet sim game
Niantic announced its latest game in development, a new IP called Peridot. This new AR title is a pet simulation game, in which players...
Liv raises $8.5M to enable easy streaming for AR and VR creators
Liv has raised $8.5 million for its platform that enables augmented reality and virtual reality content creators to record and livestream themselves inside their...
AR glasses maker Nreal raises $60M in funding led by Alibaba
Nreal, a maker of augmented reality glasses, has raised $60 million in a funding round led by China’s ecommerce giant Alibaba. Beijing-based Nreal is...
Fold partners with Niantic to create AR-based Bitcoin rewards app
Fold is launching an augmented reality experience where players can earn Bitcoin in a kind of augmented reality environment. Fold, a reward and payments...
GamesBeat Summit Next: The revenge of the nerds
We’re kicking off our GamesBeat Summit Next event today with a speech from yours truly. This extended version of the talk introduces the ideas...
8th Wall launches Reality Engine for metaverse-like WebAR experiences
8th Wall announced the launch of its Reality Engine, which enables web-based augmented reality (WebAR) experiences to immediately work across a wide range of...
Niantic opens Lightship augmented reality platform to all developers
Niantic today announced it’s opening its Lightship AR platform to all developers. More specifically, it’s offering the Lightship Augmented Reality Developer Kit (ARDK) to...
Facebook envisions future VR/AR hardware with Cambria and Nazaré projects
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is working on futurist virtual reality and augmented reality projects, dubbed respectively Project Cambria and Project...
Varjo Reality Cloud lets you virtually experience a real place via ‘teleportation’
Varjo is unveiling its Reality Cloud platform for virtual teleportation. That means one person can capture the reality of a space in a particular...