It’s the perfect app to get you in the Halloween spirit — that is, if you ain’t afraid of no AR ghosts. Ghostbusters World for iOS and Android has players roaming the neighborhood to capture and battle ghouls, spirits and spooks. There’s Slimer, The LIbrarian, Zuul, various haunted kitchen and bath appliances, and all sorts …
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At Magic Leap’s first LEAP developer conference on Wednesday, the focus was largely on inspiring artists and developers to find ways to create (or be interested in creating) augmented reality worlds. The company’s Magic Leap One headset has been available only in a handful of US cities up till now. Today it’s available across the entire US. The price remains the same, …
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Magic Leap finally has a product in the form of its recently unveiled Magic Leap One. The question for the company now is, “Where’s the content?” The answer to that question and more is what we expect to hear at the mixed reality pioneer’s developer event today in Los Angeles. The keynote for the so-called LEAP Conference starts at 9 …
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The Google Lens augmented-reality tool is directly integrated into Google’s new Pixel 3 phone, Google said Tuesday at a launch event for several new products. Lens unlocks previously announced capabilities like Style Search, which identifies products online that’re similar to the one you’re pointing your phone’s camera at, or a feature that gives you the option of having your phone autodial …
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Magic Leap, one of the most talked-about, overhyped startups in the tech industry, reached a major milestone this summer when it released its mixed reality headset to developers after years of promises. Now CEO Rony Abovitz and his team are working to convince developers and creative types who’ve paid $2,295 for the first-generation Magic Leap One “Creator Edition” to invest …
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The fifth Oculus Connect developer conference is underway in San Jose, California this week. Besides being a place for VR developers to meet up and discuss the future of immersive technologies, Facebook — the owner of Oculus — laid out its next steps for where VR (and AR) will head. And yes, that includes new hardware: the $399 wireless Oculus …
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It took a uber-popular game starring famous, cutesy kid-friendly characters for the world to take augmented reality seriously, but Pokemon Go is now the go-to example of a game that blends real and virtual worlds. Now, the elusive Magic Leap has a similar brand in its stable: Angry Birds. The addictive bird-flinging, tower-bashing, pig crushing puzzler phenomenon that’s been downloaded …
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Kayak on Monday added a luggage measurement tool to calculate a carry-on bag’s size using augmented reality technology. When you open a flight search in the Kayak app, click on “new bag measurement tool.” Scan your bag with your phone’s camera starting from the floor and then all around to capture the bag’s size. The tool will calculate the bag’s …
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Mozilla released on Tuesday Firefox Reality 1.0, the first version of its web browser geared for three virtual-reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Google Daydream. The new browser uses voice control to sidestep the difficulty of typing while wearing a device that replaces your view of the real world, including your keyboard, with immersive computer-generated scenery. At best, …
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The Magic Leap One headset was featured Thursday in iFixIt’s latest product teardown. The teardown included 22 steps, ultimately scoring a 3 out of 10 on the maker site’s repairability scale (with 10 being the easiest to repair). The Magic Leap One headset, dreamed up by Magic Leap co-founder and CEO Rony Abovitz, had a hurricane of hype leading …
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