Augmented Reality

WATCH: Fashion forward, Project Primrose, the dress of the future

The age of the digital garment is here, and the reality of digital fashion in the fashion industry is on the fast track to…

WATCH: Hisense AR filter | walk through a TV?

Consumer electronics developer Hisense has introduced a witty new feature with their range of TV that could possibly argue that viewers can walk through…

How Apple’s Vision Pro takes on Facebook’s, mixed-reality market

Apple launched their new thinnest MacBook Air alongside new operating systems for the Apple product line at their World Developers Conference. Part of the…

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite AR game is shutting down

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the Augmented Reality (AR) free-to-play mobile game from developer Niantic, is shutting down next year. The game will officially shut down…

Lenovo announces augmented reality smart glasses

Lenovo has introduced the new ThinkReality A3 smart glasses at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2021 — a wearable aimed at business and industrial…

Microsoft’s planning to launch the HoloLens 2 in September for $3500

Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 augmented reality headset will go on sale in September, a report by Reuters confirmed on Thursday. According to the publication, Microsoft’s executive…

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite pales in comparison to Pokemon Go at launch

Niantic’s latest augmented reality mobile game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is just about available in every nation on Earth, but it’s likely the title…

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is now ready to play in South Africa

Following its worldwide launch last Friday, American game developer Niantic is now rolling out Harry Potter: Wizards Unite beyond the borders of the United…

Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 debuts at MWC 2019, will cost $3500

Microsoft at its MWC 2019 conference on Sunday revealed its HoloLens 2, the company’s updated augmented reality headset. In a blog post, Microsoft explained…

Apple’s iOS 12: Grouped Notifications, Siri Suggestions and ‘Screen Time’

Kicking off its developer conference by poking fun at developers, Apple’s 2018 edition of WWDC brought with it a few notable announcements for lowly…

4 interesting ARCore apps you should download

Google’s ARCore is finally available to all — if you have a compatible device, of course. But for those with the Galaxy S7, Galaxy…

ARCore 1.0: these are all the supported phones

Back at MWC 2018, Google announced that its ARCore platform for augmented reality was ready for prime-time, hitting 1.0. Since then, we’ve seen quite…

Apple working on AR headset for 2020 – report

Augmented reality (AR) is on everyone’s lips this year, as the technology experiences a resurgence of sorts. Now, a new report claims Apple is…

Hands on with the first ARCore apps on the Play Store

Google announced ARCore late last month, being its development platform for augmented reality (AR) on Android. The move comes a while after Apple revealed…

ARCore: Google reveals AR platform to bring tech to masses

Apple’s ARKit development tools have brought augmented reality back into the limelight in recent months, owing to the depth (heh) of features enabled by…

Pokemon Go: here’s how to request or remove PokeStops and gyms

Ever since Pokemon Go launched last week, we’ve seen people complain about the lack of PokeStops or gyms near them. On the other end…

Nintendo shares soar on Pokemon Go release

It seems like you just can’t escape Pokemon Go, even if the game has only been launched in a few markets. The augmented reality mobile…

Researchers invent interactive 3D holograms you can touch

Using a system of lasers, mirrors and cameras, researchers at the Digital Nature Group (DNG) have invented a way to project three-dimensional holograms made…

More than just gaming: 3 key takeaways from E3 2015

You know, the Electronic Entertainment Expo wasn’t always the enormous annual gaming shrine it is today. In the past, many gaming announcements were made…

Oculus Rift roots for Xbox One and PS4 compatibility

Oculus Rift CEO Brendan Iribe stated he’s open for Sony and Microsoft to adopt his virtual reality headset. Oculus Rift is popularly known for…

Sphero review: the robotic ball with serious potential

A robotic ball. Wait, wait, a robotic ball you can control with your phone or tablet. Sounds crazy, right? Well, that’s what arrived at…

Microsoft’s patent application reveals competition for Google’s Project Glass

With Augmented Reality enabled devices and apps slowly creeping into the tech sphere (Google’s Project Glass immediately springs to mind), a recently released patent…

Google designing augmented reality glasses [Rumour]

While augmented reality apps have yet to hit the cellphones of most of the population, the people over at Google are reportedly moving on…

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