Apple’s newly launched RealityKit 2 comes with new tools to build even more immersive AR experiences. The update to RealityKit, Apple’s 3D rendering engine for AR, includes a new Object Capture API capable of creating photorealistic 3D models using only an iPhone. Users can take photos of an...
Snap’s 4th generation Spectacles are its most ambitious yet. The company’s first glasses to have AR features built-in, the new Spectacles can connect directly to the company’s AR Lenses and Lens Studio platform. But there’s a catch: you can’t buy them. The company is instead...
Apple's video creation app Clips now lets users add augmented reality effects via the LiDAR scanner on the iPhone 12 Pro and iPad Pro. Thanks to the new AR spaces feature, users can add AR confetti, lasers, and more, placing them behind people and furniture as well as on the...
Snap is looking to augment its location-based AR experiences with a new acquisition of the Colorado-based 3D mapping startup, Pixel8earth [https://pixel8.earth/#/]. The $7.6 million acquisition will aid the company’s efforts to create a personalized mapping experience and create new revenue streams, such as business promotions. As...
> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke Facebook has unveiled a neural wristband that allows users to control augmented reality with their minds. The new interface is based on technology from CTRL-labs, the startup Facebook acquired in 2019. The project, which is still in the...
During its Ignite 2021 conference last week, Microsoft unveiled Mesh, its new mixed reality platform powered by Microsoft Azure that allows users to connect and collaborate remotely from multiple devices via “shared holographic experiences". In Mesh, people will initially appear as virtual avatars from the AltspaceVR social VR platform which...
