This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Now playing: Watch this: Intel plans to make construction helmets safer 2:03 Intel may have raced past Microsoft to the augmented reality world. The chip giant used its …
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Apple spent 2015 catapulting new toys and services at consumers. The year ahead will be all about refining its aim. The Cupertino, California, company wants to touch every aspect of your life, whether on the go with an iPhone 6S or Apple Watch, at your office with an iPad Pro or MacBook, or in your living room with an Apple …
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The Magic Leap One is now available to order for $2295. We got some hands-on time with the Magic Leap One, but if all you want are the facts, here’s everything you need to know. We also spent some time at the Magic Leap headquarters in Florida to get the inside story. 3D worlds that open before your eyes when you put goggles …
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Google Cardboard: cheap and easy…and ready to grow. CNET Virtual and augmented reality have been sprouting up everywhere in 2015, but Google’s had its hands in VR and AR since last year’s Google I/O developer’s conference. This year it could be poised to do even more. Virtual-reality devices, like the Oculus headset, close us up into the a separate world, …
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Could Apple succeed where Google Glass has stumbled? James Martin/CNET Apple may be looking to enter the augmented reality arena, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. In an investor’s note released Wednesday, Munster cited conversations with industry contacts who claim that Apple has a small team exploring augmented reality, which he believes “has the potential to be as profound …
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Eleven of us gather deep in the enemy heartland on a balmy Sunday evening to partake in Operation: Green Court. Meeting in secret, we are agents of the Enlightened, a faction which seeks to advance society through our actions. The enemy will be unaware of our presence until we begin attacking and capturing a long corridor of their prized portals, …
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Want to play with a new View-Master? Ask mommy and daddy for a smartphone. Mattel is working with Google to reboot the classic View-Master toy as a child’s first portal into virtual reality. In this CNET Update, learn how it works and how Mattel is putting a new twist on collectable reels. It’s not the first time Mattel has incorporated …
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The future is almost now. Augmented-reality and virtual-reality headsets are real things, it’s just a matter of refining the technology. A large volley has just been fired across the bow of the marketplace by Microsoft, which announced the HoloLens, an augmented-reality system that uses goggles to overlay virtual objects and information onto the real world around you. The HoloLens is …
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Enlarge ImageMicrosoft’s Windows 10 event featured a surprise appearance — holograms. Screenshot by David Katzmaier/CNET Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a device called HoloLens, marking its entry into the increasingly popular field of augmented reality. Similar to virtual reality, AR technology incorporates apps and services into the real world. The best-known devices in those areas are Google Glass, which lets people …
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