The Opabinia, a 500-million-year-old creature with five eyes, can visit your living room in all its weird glory, thanks to an AR update to the Google Arts & Culture app. Google partnered with a variety of history and art museums to add a collection of prehistoric creatures, cultural artifacts and historic artwork as augmented reality …
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I turned into a photographer halfway through a press event that took place somewhere above my desk. OnePlus‘ new wireless OnePlus Buds were hovering in front of me, seen through my phone screen using augmented reality tech. I could turn and look at them from different angles. I got super close. And I started taking product shots. Screenshots, yes, but …
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Update, July 27: The OnePlus Nord is here. Read our in-depth review. Original story follows. OnePlus’s new smartphone, the OnePlus Nord, will be revealed on July 21. The phone, previously dubbed the “OnePlus Z Thing,” is already available for preorder. The Chinese phone-maker said it will let people watch the phone’s launch from the safety of their own homes by holding …
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As 3D objects become more searchable on phones, Googling up an animal to drop into your home is becoming a thing. The latest augmented reality object to pop up: dinosaurs. Searching for things via Google Search and putting them in your home using AR has been possible since last year, but Google’s been making updates to its AR catalog in …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s making an AR headset. Or glasses. Or an AR/VR headset. Something like that, something coming in 2021, 2022… or 2023. Reports have been everywhere; the pieces seem to be coming into place. And yet, at this year’s video-only WWDC conference in a …
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This week’s AR news has been focused on Apple’s augmented reality updates to iOS 14, many of which lean on the depth-scanning hardware only on the recent iPad Pro. Google announced its own AR news this week, too, and you won’t need specialized hardware to use its depth-sensing tools. A Depth API update to ARCore, announced and available today, will be …
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Snapchat, like many companies, is pursuing augmented reality at a fever pitch, with AR-enabled smartglasses on the horizon. The company’s newest AR tools, introduced at its developer summit Thursday, are going even further, introducing world-mapping, collaborative AR capabilities into city-block-sized experiences. They’re called Local Lenses and promise to transform whole real-life neighborhoods into interactive art pieces. Snapchat’s previous Landmark Lenses worked …
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Back in September, in a period I like to call “the before,” I tried out a prototype virtual reality headset from a Taiwanese company called XRSpace. I strapped bulky orange goggles over my eyes and stepped into another world without actually leaving the hectic Berlin conference hall that housed the IFA consumer electronics trade show. Eventually, the unit would run …
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To learn about the future of VR, I met in VR. Qualcomm invited me to a briefing inside Spatial’s app on an Oculus Quest, where a virtual Hugo Swart (head of mixed reality tech for Qualcomm) floated, ready to show us slides and talk about where VR was heading. Midway through, Swart vanished into a vapor of dots. Then he …
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Apple’s been rumored to be working on a pair of smart glasses for years. On Tuesday, Front Page Tech host Jon Prosser shared alleged details about the augmented reality glasses, which he says will be called Apple Glass. Apple Glass will pair with an iPhone and be controlled by gestures on and in front of the glasses, according to Prosser, …
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