We Tried Snapchat’s AR Glasses And Had Our Minds Blown

Snap Inc’s AR Spectacles glasses are nothing short of black magic. First announced back in 2016, Snap Inc.’s offbeat smart glasses have seen several different iterations over the past five and a half years, each one improving upon the last with new features designed to merge the company’s social media platform with the real world. […]

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Cas & Chary Present: Hands-on with Nreal Light, One of the First Consumer-available AR Glasses
Nreal is a China-based startup behind the Nreal Light AR glasses, which aim for a sunglasses-like design. By hooking it up to your (Android) phone, it’s able to project virtual objects in your real environment and even allow you to walk around with position tracking. While we’re not quite there yet, I think the Nreal […]

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Nreal Launches $600 ‘Light’ AR Glasses in United States via Verizon
Nreal, the Chinese startup behind the Nreal Light AR glasses which made a splash back at CES 2019, has now expanded to the United States, making the smartphone-tethered device available through select Verizon stores starting today. Nreal Light is a pair of AR glasses that are physically connected to a smartphone via USB Type-C to […]

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Facebook’s First Full AR Glasses are Code Named ‘Project Nazare’
It’s clear Facebook is working on all-day AR headsets, and although they still aren’t showing any hardware just yet, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned today at Facebook Connect 2021 that it’s indeed still full steam ahead on its first “fully-fledged augmented reality glasses,” revealing the code name ‘Project Nazare’. “The ultimate goal here is true […]

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Snapchat’s 4th-generation Spectacles Are Its First to Support AR
Snap Inc, the company behind Snapchat, today announced its 4th generation Spectacles glasses. While the prior generations included only cameras for capturing first-person footage, the 4th generation Spectacles are the company’s first to include a display for real-time AR. Also unlike previous versions of Spectacles, the 4th-generation is not currently available for sale. Snap is […]

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Enterprise AR will follow these 3 paths in 2021

Augmented reality will gain steam in enterprises thanks to mainstreaming of the technologies, better digital assets, and improved AR hardware. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Jeremy Horwitz

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Oppo Unveils Smartphone-tethered AR Glasses, Push for Content Coming in 2021
Oppo, the China-based smartphone manufacturer, held its second annual Inno Day in Shenzhen, China today, showing off a new version of its concept AR glasses. Called Oppo AR Glass 2021, the company’s latest augmented reality hardware boasts a new ‘split’ design, something that makes it both more compact and lighter than the previous HoloLens-style model, […]

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Facebook will release its first AR glasses in 2021

The company behind Oculus VR headsets is officially ready to move into augmented reality hardware, pushing forward its first AR glasses to a 2021 release. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Jeremy Horwitz

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Spaces is one more tile in Apple’s incomprehensibly large AR/VR mosaic

Apple’s master plan to make mixed reality mainstream grows with new corporate acqusitions every month, even if the individual pieces don’t make sense. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Jeremy Horwitz

Qualcomm expects all-in-one 5G XR viewers in 1-4 years, glasses in 5-10

The key chipmaker behind AR and VR headsets is preparing for a three-stage rollout as XR wearables transition from phone-tethered to standalone 5G glasses. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Jeremy Horwitz