Augmented Reality

Opinion

Games may not be the killer app for VR | Opinion

As Meta and Apple focus on work applications for their VR tech, the best hope for VR games is to evolve as PC gaming did: a fun thing to do on a work-focused device

Oct. 25, 2024 Rob Fahey

News

Eggspace Entertainment raises $4.25m in seed funding round

The Buenos Aires-based game maker intends to use its funding to launch its mixed reality title

Feb. 2, 2024 Jeffrey Rousseau

News

Apple Vision Pro to launch in February

The device will be available in the US next month, and preorders begin on January 19

Jan. 8, 2024 Jeffrey Rousseau

Opinion

Meta's Quest 3 fires the starting gun on consumer AR devices | Opinion

Apple and Meta are betting big on augmented reality – but expectations of a revolution to rival the introduction of smartphones should be tempered

Sept. 29, 2023 Rob Fahey

News

Report: Apple scales down plans for Vision Pro headset

Tech giant reportedly only making between 130,000 and 400,000 units in the first year instead of the one million initially projected internally

July 4, 2023 Marie Dealessandri

Feature

Games will need a radical rethink to work in AR | This Week in Business

Having games that interact with real-world environments is a significant technical hurdle, but perhaps a bigger design challenge

June 23, 2023 Brendan Sinclair

News

Xbox is waiting for an audience before it expands into AR/VR

Head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty says that the scale needed for success is not there yet

June 21, 2023 Jeffrey Rousseau

Feature

Apple's AR headset suffers from a lack of vision | Opinion

The Vision Pro can improve on the tech and design of HoloLens and Magic Leap all it wants, but it still shares the same fuzzy idea about what it's actually for

June 6, 2023 Brendan Sinclair

News

Apple unveils Vision Pro AR headset

$3,499 headset has variably transparent visor, interface driven by hands, eyes, voice, launches in US early next year

June 5, 2023 Brendan Sinclair

News

Niantic and Capcom launching Monster Hunter Now in September

"I strongly believe we have a hit on our hands," Niantic's Kei Kawai tells GamesIndustry.biz

April 18, 2023 James Batchelor

News

Report: Meta planning three more VR headsets, Quest 3 due this year

A leaked presentation detailed the company's plans for AR and VR, but highlighted retention issues with current hardware

March 2, 2023 Marie Dealessandri

News

Apple reportedly set to unveil AR/VR headset this year

Bloomberg says device will likely be named Reality Pro, with spring announce and late fall launch

Jan. 9, 2023 Brendan Sinclair

News

Meta laying off 11,000

CEO Mark Zuckerberg tells staff he expected 2020-2021 boost to be a "permanent acceleration that would continue even after the pandemic ended"

Nov. 9, 2022 Brendan Sinclair

News

Niantic acquires former Magic Leap developers NZXR

New Zealand studio will help design multiplayer AR experiences for Pokémon Go firm

April 6, 2022 James Batchelor

Feature

"The next frontier for AR": Why Niantic is sharing its tech with Lightship

The Pokémon Go developer on how to finally move augmented reality beyond a novelty in mobile gaming

Dec. 6, 2021 James Batchelor

Academy

How to place virtual objects in the real world convincingly

The team behind Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs shares its secrets for making augmented reality feel more like reality

Nov. 29, 2021 Magnus Runesson

News

Niantic raises $300m at a $9bn valuation for "real-world metaverse"

Pokémon Go developer aims at creating "ever-evolving AR map of the world"

Nov. 23, 2021 Marie Dealessandri

News

Niantic begins licensing its AR tech

Pokémon Go company launches Lightship AR dev kit as Niantic Ventures established to invest $20m in AR metaverse companies

Nov. 8, 2021 Brendan Sinclair

News

Oculus' John Carmack skeptical about efforts to build the metaverse

Veteran developer calls it "a honeypot trap for architecture astronauts" during Facebook Connect keynote address

Oct. 29, 2021 Brendan Sinclair

News

Facebook changes name to Meta

Social network now referring to itself as a social technology company with a goal "to bring the metaverse to life"

Oct. 28, 2021 Brendan Sinclair

News

Magic Leap raises $500m, unveils Magic Leap 2

Company valued at $2 billion, second generation of AR headset expected in 2022

Oct. 12, 2021 James Batchelor

News

Niantic acquires 3D mobile scanning app Scaniverse

Acquisition will further enable Niantic developers and users to create a 3D map of the world using smartphones

Aug. 11, 2021 James Batchelor

News

Microsoft's HoloLens military contract now worth up to $22bn

Company enters production phase on augmented reality headsets for US soldiers

April 1, 2021 James Batchelor

Feature

The AR hype is building - but success may be years away | Opinion

Rumours of AR product launches from Apple, Niantic and Snap are fuelling belief that a tech revolution is on the way, but enormous problems remain to be solved

April 1, 2021 Rob Fahey

Feature

What has Square Enix Montreal been doing for the last five years?

As it teases a new Hitman Sniper game and a Space Invaders AR project, head of studio Patrick Naud talks about shifting the studio to free-to-play, what's changed, and what's the same

March 18, 2021 Brendan Sinclair