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Eggspace Entertainment raises $4.25m in seed funding round
The Buenos Aires-based game maker intends to use its funding to launch its mixed reality title
Augmented Reality
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Apple Vision Pro to launch in February
The device will be available in the US next month, and preorders begin on January 19
Opinion
Meta's Quest 3 fires the starting gun on consumer AR devices | Opinion
Apple and Meta are betting big on augmented reality – but expectations of a revolution to rival the introduction of smartphones should be tempered
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Report: Apple scales down plans for Vision Pro headset
Tech giant reportedly only making between 130,000 and 400,000 units in the first year instead of the one million initially projected internally
Feature
Games will need a radical rethink to work in AR | This Week in Business
Having games that interact with real-world environments is a significant technical hurdle, but perhaps a bigger design challenge
News
Xbox is waiting for an audience before it expands into AR/VR
Head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty says that the scale needed for success is not there yet
Feature
Apple's AR headset suffers from a lack of vision | Opinion
The Vision Pro can improve on the tech and design of HoloLens and Magic Leap all it wants, but it still shares the same fuzzy idea about what it's actually for
News
Apple unveils Vision Pro AR headset
$3,499 headset has variably transparent visor, interface driven by hands, eyes, voice, launches in US early next year
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Niantic and Capcom launching Monster Hunter Now in September
"I strongly believe we have a hit on our hands," Niantic's Kei Kawai tells GamesIndustry.biz
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Report: Meta planning three more VR headsets, Quest 3 due this year
A leaked presentation detailed the company's plans for AR and VR, but highlighted retention issues with current hardware
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Apple reportedly set to unveil AR/VR headset this year
Bloomberg says device will likely be named Reality Pro, with spring announce and late fall launch
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Meta laying off 11,000
CEO Mark Zuckerberg tells staff he expected 2020-2021 boost to be a "permanent acceleration that would continue even after the pandemic ended"
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Niantic acquires former Magic Leap developers NZXR
New Zealand studio will help design multiplayer AR experiences for Pokémon Go firm
Feature
"The next frontier for AR": Why Niantic is sharing its tech with Lightship
The Pokémon Go developer on how to finally move augmented reality beyond a novelty in mobile gaming
Academy
How to place virtual objects in the real world convincingly
The team behind Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs shares its secrets for making augmented reality feel more like reality
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Niantic raises $300m at a $9bn valuation for "real-world metaverse"
Pokémon Go developer aims at creating "ever-evolving AR map of the world"
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Niantic begins licensing its AR tech
Pokémon Go company launches Lightship AR dev kit as Niantic Ventures established to invest $20m in AR metaverse companies
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Oculus' John Carmack skeptical about efforts to build the metaverse
Veteran developer calls it "a honeypot trap for architecture astronauts" during Facebook Connect keynote address
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Facebook changes name to Meta
Social network now referring to itself as a social technology company with a goal "to bring the metaverse to life"
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Magic Leap raises $500m, unveils Magic Leap 2
Company valued at $2 billion, second generation of AR headset expected in 2022
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Niantic acquires 3D mobile scanning app Scaniverse
Acquisition will further enable Niantic developers and users to create a 3D map of the world using smartphones
News
Microsoft's HoloLens military contract now worth up to $22bn
Company enters production phase on augmented reality headsets for US soldiers
Feature
The AR hype is building - but success may be years away | Opinion
Rumours of AR product launches from Apple, Niantic and Snap are fuelling belief that a tech revolution is on the way, but enormous problems remain to be solved
Feature
What has Square Enix Montreal been doing for the last five years?
As it teases a new Hitman Sniper game and a Space Invaders AR project, head of studio Patrick Naud talks about shifting the studio to free-to-play, what's changed, and what's the same
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Unity acquires 3D content creator RestAR
Tel Aviv company's tech allows users to render 3D models of physical objects by scanning with a mobile device