Augmented Reality Archive

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality integrates the digital world into reality based on location and objects. Currently, AR with the smartphone is popular: Social apps like Instagram offer thousands of AR filters for faces or the environment, Google navigates through Maps with augmented reality or displays life-size AR animals in Google Search. Apple makes 3D scanning accessible with special lidar technology in the iPhone, giving many people the opportunity to create their own AR content. The AR industry’s big goal is slim AR glasses suitable for everyday use that will eventually replace smartphones: imagine walking through a shopping mall and seeing purchase recommendations right at the front doors of stores through AR glasses. Of course, there are countless other application scenarios. This is still science fiction – but we’ll be the first to tell you whether it comes true.

VR Hardware

Meta Connect and the Quest 3 have an official date in September

Aug 01 2023 Alan Truly

AR Hardware

Meta's Flamera headset prototype fights distortion with "bug eyes"

Aug 01 2023 Jan Wöbbeking

AR Hardware

Military Hololens faces crucial tests

Jul 31 2023 Jan Wöbbeking

Hand tracking added to AR toolkit from Niantic and 8th Wall

AR Apps

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Hand tracking added to AR toolkit from Niantic and 8th Wall

Niantic and 8th Wall have added hand tracking to the 8th Wall AR Developer Toolkit. This allows developers to create AR applications that respond to hand and wrist movements. The new tools provide a dedicated hand model with 36 attachment points that conform to the user's shape. Real-time APIs can be used to integrate textures or video from the web.