When Apple announced its overtly expensive Vision Pro AR headset, arguably its biggest promise had little to do with hardware. The company says “hundreds and thousands of iPhone and iPad apps” run ...

Augmented Reality (AR) can be fun technology to play with. The basic premise of AR is to overlay digital content on top of real things using something like a map, a camera, or sometimes the sky.

With the release of the Android XR SDK Developer Preview 3, Google has introduced two new libraries to help developers create ...

Jorge was a news writer for AP. He covered the mobile industry at Android Police, but has covered multiple beats in the tech space. AR glasses tend to be thought of as a luxury item only available to ...

Augmented reality (AR) has a rich history that dates back to 1968 when Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull introduced one of the inaugural AR headsets. This device projected graphical data via a heads-up ...

Xreal is on a mission to bring its augmented reality glasses to everyone. And now it is unveiling an Android mobile companion device called Xreal Beam Pro to make it easier to use AR glasses. The Beam ...

The glasses are made by Rokid, a brand that’s been vaguely on my radar for about a year now. They’re called the AR Joy 2, and using them, in person, felt a bit too awesome and surreal. Like that first ...

The Rokid Station (left), Rokid Max (right), and the micro-HDMI to USB-C cable needed to connect the two. With the proliferation of streaming platforms and more people pulling the plug on conventional ...

Set to launch in 2026, XREAL Aura is the first pair of see-through AR glasses to run Android XR. Here are the impressions from my first hands-on. During a recent meeting with Google, the company ...

Google has consolidated teams working on augmented reality and has big plans for a new software platform it's shopping to partners.

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