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New 8th Wall Subscription Tiers Come With New Tools and Features
Niantic has taken a full plunge into the metaverse, providing subscription plans, monetization tools along with discovery functions in its 8th Wall Platform. 8th Wall was acquired by Niantic in…
Niantic Unveils Campfire, A Social App for Mobile AR Gamers
Following Niantic’s launch of Pokemon Go in 2016, meetups in the games, in-game raids, and the battles have been coordinated on platforms like Discord and Reddit. This week, Niantic unveiled…
Niantic Launches City-Scale AR Location Mapping Software
Niantic is releasing an Augmented Reality map for other apps along with a location-based social network known as Campfire. Niantic’s AR mode is far from perfect. It still needs some…
Niantic Does a Major Pokémon Go Upgrade with the Visual Positioning System
Through its Visual Positioning System (VPS), Niantic aims to beam its Augmented Reality Experiences onto the real world with high-level precision. Niantic Visual Positioning System Niantic says its VPS location…
Korea’s RECON Labs Raises $4.4 Million for 3D-AR Shopping Visualization
South Korean Augmented Reality startup RECON Labs has raised $ million for a 3D product visualization platform that enables shoppers buying products online to preview products via 3D models before…
Report Explains Apple Mixed Reality Headset Development Challenges
Apple’s quest to build a mixed reality headset began in 2015 but the project has been plagued by a series of challenges that have occasioned the endless delays and consistently…
Qualcomm’s AR Smart Viewer Reference Design: Slimmer and Wireless
Qualcomm has unveiled its new wireless reference design for its Augmented Reality Smart Viewer. This is only a reference design, a prototype that manufacturers can adapt to manufacture commercial headsets…
Patent Suggests Apple AR Glasses Could Be Self-Cleaning
Apple has won a patent for a self-cleaning mechanism for a head-mounted device. Apple’s work on its tech glasses has been going on for years. A newly unearthed patent shows…
Patent Suggests Apple Glass Could Have Vision Correction
Right from the word go, a major issue with VR headsets has been the difficulty of fitting the devices over prescription glasses so that people with vision problems could have…
BBC Series ‘The Green Planet’ Comes to Life in a London AR Exhibition
David Attenborough’s nature documentary The Green Planet came to reality, at least virtually, in a London Augmented Reality exhibition which began on February 11. In the exhibition, visitors encounter a…