Just hours after an early leak via Twitter, Facebook and Ray-Ban have officially released their new wearable collaboration.As we surmised, based on the leaked packaging,… Next Reality & Adario Strange
Facebook Ray-Ban Smartglasses Leak Reveals Fashionable Device with Cameras, Multiple Colors
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 … Next Reality & Adario Strange
Snapchat Launches Birthdays Mini Feature to Let You Celebrate Your Friends via AR Lenses
The art of creating Snapchat Lenses is really only the beginning of the augmented reality experience on the social media platform.
The real interactive fun begins when people begin to use the Lenses in deeply personal ways. One of those personal inst… Next Reality & Adario Strange
Apple Kicks Off September Event with Augmented Reality Welcome Mat
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 augme… Next Reality & Adario Strange
Market Reality: Oculus Quest Fuels AR Apps, Why Spatial Audio Is the Killer App, & Xerox Becomes a Major AR Player
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 develop… Next Reality & Adario Strange
Xerox Augmented Reality Unit CareAR Raises $10 Million in Funding from ServiceNow
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, Xer… Next Reality & Adario Strange
Facebook’s Oculus Quest Turned into Augmented Reality Guitar Hero Experience via This Developer App
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 con… Next Reality & Adario Strange
Spatial Audio Update in Clubhouse Is Another Piece of the AR Virtual Meetings Puzzle Coming Together, Here’s How
In our review of Amazon’s non-augmented reality Echo Frames smartglasses, we made the case for audio virtual assistants being the linchpin for AR wearables.
Given that premise, it’s now vital to pay attention to developments in the spatial audio spac… Next Reality & Adario Strange
Market Reality: TikTok Enters AR Battle, Facebook Crypto Mystery, Candyman in AR, Avon Immersive, Snap Spectacles Evolve
The year leading into fall is turning out to be packed with a flurry of augmented reality activity. Most notably, TikTok is adding another major weapon to its AR arsenal. Also on deck are the powers of Hollywood horror in the form of an innovative app… Next Reality & Adario Strange
This Is How the Augmented Reality World of the Metaverse Could Be Opened to the Visually Impaired
One of the primary assumptions in the world of VR and augmented reality is that the user has the ability to „see“ virtual objects and the real world structures around them. But what if the user doesn’t have perfect eyesight, or any eyesight at all?