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Tobii and Qualcomm want to bring eye tracking to mobile VR/AR products. Mobile headsets using this eye tracking technology will take advantage of foveated rendering and allow high level graphics where the eye is looking in real time. This will enable devices to be more efficient and use less...

Has anyone played with one of those? Seems like an interesting upgrade to a Vive to get the AR out of the VR. https://www.stereolabs.com/zed-mini/ Looks nifty with their promo! https://packet39.com/blog/2018/01/29/zed-mini-unboxing-and-a-quick-review/

Apple's ARKit is giving more and more developers the opportunity to create new experiences. Abishek Singhs newest project recreates the iconic scene from 2002s "The Ring" where the creepy girl crawls out of the TV and into the physical world. With some more highly polished graphics that would...

The head of Twitter's AR/VR team Alessandro Sabatelli announced via tweet that he was moving on from the company after being hired in June 2016. TechCrunch reached out to Sabatelli for more details on where he is going next, but has not had a response at the time of writing. Sabatelli was hired...

While we have been waiting for a really good pair of X-Ray glasses that let you see under people's clothes, ProjectDR has skipped past the clothes and now is touting technology that will let doctors see under your skin. ProjectDR lets previous performed CT and MRI scans to be displayed on the...

I know a lot of people have been playing or have played Ark: Survival Evolved so it's worth noting that you can now get it for Windows 10 and crossplay with your Xbox friends. However, if you're like me and purchased this title on Steam then you aren't getting crossplay capability. Whether...

Many of us VR fans have seen the worlds of mixed reality or alternate reality that very expensive products like Microsoft's HoloLens can produce. Stereolabs is telling us that for a mere $450 more, we can turn our Vive or Rift headset into a device that is capable of delivering a real AR...

Paramount has released a free AR experience for iOS users in time for the release of the 4K version of Transformers: The Last Knight. If anyone watches The Walking Dead, this looks like a similar app that AMC released that shows zombies as part of your photos. Evidently, this Paramount app...

Apple Inc., seeking a breakthrough product to succeed the iPhone, aims to have technology ready for an augmented-reality (WARNING auto play video) headset in 2019 and could ship a product as early as 2020. With Samsung and other pushing AR it's really only a matter of time before we get these...

Ari Grobman, at Techcrunch, asks whether or not consumers are ready for AR eyewear and if the technology is ready yet. Industry thinks AR is going to be big and Apple and Google are heading in that direction since both of them have announced release of AR tool kits to developers. However, I'm...

Just when you possibly thought that Palmer Luckey was concerned only with Hentai VR Pool Parties, we find out that he is back in the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality business with a company called Anduril. TechCrunch has a detailed writeup about the bones of the company that is looking to...

You augmented reality fans are in for a treat. Announced last month, Disney and Lenovo partnered up to create the cool AR experience that is every Padawan's wet dream. As part of today's Force Friday iI for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Lenovo released a first look for the Jedi Challenges. Unleash...

According to Patrick Moorhead, AMD is taking advantage of their new found revenue stream from the "Ryzen" CPU release and stock to acquire the IP of Austin, TX developer Nitero and subsequently hired the entire team. Nitero is one of the few companies in the world that has developed 60 GHz...

Businesswire is reporting on an IDG market report, suggesting that the virtual reality and augmented reality headset market will grow an average of 58% year over year reaching 99.4 million units by 2021. 2021 may sound like "the future" portrayed in some dark, post-apocalyptic sci-fi game...

German company Scopis has successfully petitioned and been granted clearance by the FDA to bring it's augmented reality surgery technology to the USA. The Scopis AR system is designed to assist doctors treating during ENT surgeries. ENT is Otolaryngology or in layman's terms ear, nose, and...

Samsung is ready to unveil it's Monitorless augmented reality solution at the 2017 Mobile World Congress event. Monitorless allows you to use your PC without a conventional screen by creating an AR effect with special glasses. The system requirements consists of a pair of Samsung Monitorless...

Nothing really to say beyond, just friggin' look at it.

I have said since day one that VR will "change the world," and I am still onboard with that. If you think it is just "a fad" like 3DTV was, you are incorrect. Applications like the crossover AR/VR shown below are just beginning to scratch the surface. And VR gaming kicks much ass if you have...

Why does it always have to be one or the other? It's not like AR, as cool as the technology is, stole any of VR's thunder this year, or vice versa. In fact, I think both will coexist just fine because they are clearly different products targeting different markets. VR, AR, MR and every other...

Bruce Dell of Euclideon & Holoverse Interview - It's been five years since we last heard from Bruce Dell of Euclideon about its Unlimited Detail Technology and how he saw it changing the gaming world. Since then Bruce has not been sitting on his hands, and are now delivering the Holoverse VR /...