augmented reality
Facebook launching Ray-Ban 'smart glasses' as part of Zuckerberg's 'metaverse' plans
Facebook says it's planning to launch a pair of Ray-Ban “smart glasses” — a product Mark Zuckerberg says is🍸 part of a push to build a “metaverse company.”
Mark Zuckerberg says augmented reality can replꩵace art, 𒁏media
൩ Mark Zuckerberg said digital holograms will eventually be able to replace TVs, books and even paintings or sculptures in a future where everyone wears augmented reality glasses.
Snap to buy A🐲R company Wa🙈veOptics for over $500M
Snap Inc said Friday it will acquire WaveOptics, a British augmented reality technology company, for over $500 million. The deal, first reported by The Verge and confirmed b𒁃y a Snap spokesman, will help the owner...
Microsoft wins $22 billion deal to make AR headsets for US Army 🦋 🌃
Microsoft won a nearly $22 billion contract to supply U.S. Army combat troops with its augmented reality headsets. 𝕴Microsoft and the Army separately announced the deal Wednesday. The technology is based on Microsoft’s HoloLens...
Facebook weighs adding facial recognition to smart glasses 🅺
Facebook is weighing whether to add facial recognition technology to the smart glasses it's developing, one top executive says. The tech titan plans to have a public 🧔discussion about the... ꧟
🌠 US Army testing augmented reality goggles on dogs 𒀰
ꦫ The US Army is testing augmented reality goggles on its service dogs in hopes to allow troops to give orders remotely. Pooches are commonly deployed to sniff out explosives, hazardous...
♊ Apple buys virtual reality company NextVR
🏅 Apple, keen to up its prowess in virtual reality and augmented reality, has purchased NextVR. The Newport Beach, Calif., outfit uses virtual reality tech to enable people to "attend" concerts... 🎃
Be a 'Tiger King' without risking life and limb with Google's AR function
Calling all average Joe Exotics﷽. Isolationist animal lovers are becoming their own "Tiger Kings," minus the mauling risk (or 𝓰serial philandering), by using Google's augmented reality function to turn their...
Here's the trick to previewing Pearl Jam's new single
You Vedder have a smartphone if you want to hear a preview of Pearl Jam's new song. Pearl Jam is allowing fans to prev🐼iew its new single "Superblood Wolfmoon" off...
Snap unveils third generation of Spectacles smart glasses 🍬
When it comes to wearable cameras, Snap is hoping that the third time is the charm. The parent company of disappearing-photo app Snapchat on Tuesday unveiled the latest iterꦑation of... 💝
Sn🤪෴apchat to invest $1B in cool stuff
Snapchat knows how much its users love vomiting rainbows and seeing what they’d look like as the opposite gender — so it plans o൩n giv🍷ing them more. The parent company...
The crazy AR technology Verizon🌳’s 5G lab is working on ⛎
5G is said to be essential to the future of augmented reality, a cut🦹ting-edge technology which superimposes digital da📖ta on the physical world.
Augmented reality porn stars a▨re coming to a living room near you ꦛ
It was only ✱a matter of time: Adult entertainment studio Naughty America released one of the industry’s very first XXX-rated augmented reality (AR) apps for Android phones this week, which...
This terrifying augmented realiꦕty video shows inside a storm surgeꦗ
🌌A storm surge of 9 or 12 feet has the power to wreak havoc, sweeping away cars, humans and debris in devastating fashion. But often, people choose to face down...
Here's a clue that Apple's AR glasses are more than just a rumor
Could Apple’s secret effort to bring a pair💦 of AR glasses to fruition b🗹e closer to becoming, well, a real product? Maybe, if this job posting that shows Apple is...
Seasickness not included: AR boat rides take ovꦦer old st𝓰eamship building
From the outside, it looks like a normal office building. It’s only after you enter that you’re transported — into something💧 like a nautical wonderland. D.S. “Dream Ship” DestiNY, i🅠s...
The augmented real🎃ity glasses business is gett🙈ing very catty
A few weeks ago, we reported that the much-hyped first Magic Leap headset is now available to buy but that🐲 it doesn’t yet live up to the company’s promise nor...
Apple readying iPh🔯one-r🦹eady augmented reality glasses: report
♎ The Apple Watch iᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚs only a few years old, but it’s already the best-sold smartwatch in the world, as more and more people appreciate the many features built into a...
𝓰 Tech titans race to replac🎉e your smartphone with this device
You might think that you can’t live without y👍our smartphone, but tech companies like Apple, Google and Facebook expect you to do just that in the not-too-distant 🗹future. The titans...
Smart glasses that actually look stylish c🧸ould still happen
A report last week said that Intel is lဣooking to sell its au🎃gmented reality (AR) smart glasses as soon as this year, but the company is still shopping for partners...