Month: September 2021

Facebook promised that it would release a pair of smartglasses in partnership with Ray-Ban sometime this year and now it looks like we have our first look at the device. The design is amazingly in line with Ray-Ban’s classic look, so much so that if you wore a pair of these in public right now most onlookers probably wouldn’t realize you were wearing anything other than a normal pair of shades. • Don’t Miss: Mark Zuckerberg Reveals More About Facebook’s Upcoming Smartglasses Set to Debut This Year The leak comes from one of the most reliable leak-focused Twitter handles, Ev Leaks, which is… more

We always know roughly when Apple events are coming, but when their new product events pop up, they’re always a pleasant tech refresher from the Cupertino tech giant. This time, the Apple event news comes with a special treat, another beautiful augmented reality invitation. • Don’t Miss: Apple & Snapchat Use AR to Let You Travel on the New York Subway System via Apple Pay The invite for Apple’s latest event reveals that the launch will take place on September 14 at 1 p.m. ET. Although Apple hasn’t revealed what it will debut at next week’s event, rumors are circulating that it could… more

Amid a troubling resurgence in coronavirus cases, led by the new Delta variant, augmented reality is once again moving back into the spotlight as a solution, especially now that the move to return to offices has been stalled. This week, a few developments in the AR space offered more proof that immersive remote work solutions could be the answer for a number of corporate and private consumers. Among these developments is the increasing rise of spatial audio, which is vital to truly immersive mobile AR apps, and we have a great new example. Also, Facebook’s latest developer initiative allows… more

The enterprise-focused category of augmented reality doesn’t often get the headlines due to its relatively sedate profile as a mostly factory floor and training-based tool. But a new massive investment in one of the biggest enterprise AR players, Xerox’s CareAR, will likely fuel new activity in this still emerging category. • Don’t Miss: Hands-On with Spatial’s Remote Meeting App on Microsoft HoloLens This week, CareAR received a new investment of $10 million from ServiceNow, one of its existing partners in the realm of enterprise software. “Service teams today are challenged with solving… more

The augmented reality passthrough abilities of Facebook’s Oculus Quest were only fully opened to independent developers recently. But despite the recency of the shift, the change is already yielding interesting AR applications that few would have considered for the primarily VR-centric device. • Don’t Miss: Facebook Finally Opens Oculus Quest Passthrough Feature to Developers, Making the VR Device an AR Playground Austria-based indie developer Dominik Hackl has come up with a clever way to study playing the piano using AR overlays as a guide. The project, called Magic Keys, was first… more