Flying under the radar during Magic Leap’s big week at the Game Developers Conference, the company settled a potentially ugly lawsuit with a former employee. Earlier this month, we reported that Magic Leap’s senior director of global security, Todd Keil, was embroiled in a dispute involving his claim of alleged violations of the Defend Trade...
Continuing with its new paradigm of using augmented reality to cover the news, The New York Times has published a feature story that takes a peek into the late David Bowie’s eclectic wardrobe of on-stage outfits. The retrospective showcases four iconic Bowie costumes, including the famed “Tokyo Pop” jumpsuit and the lightning bolt suit from...
Now that we’ve had a chance to jump into the Lumin SDK documentation at Magic Leap’s Creator Portal, we now have much more detail about how the device will function and utilize software than any single piece of content released by Magic Leap to date. So now that much of the mystery (at least on...
In the weeks following Google’s AR toolkit launch last month, the availability of quality ARCore apps has been somewhat limited. That changed on Tuesday, as a flurry of new and updated apps arrived on the Play Store, including some AR experiences available exclusively on Android. Google highlighted several apps and games via a blog post,...
Just weeks after officially launching its mobile augmented reality toolkit, Google can now claim one of its first Android and ARCore app exclusives with the Curate app from Sotheby’s International Realty. Available now in the Play Store, Curate operates similarly to furniture visualization apps like IKEA Place and Houzz. The app allows users to visualize...
Having pushed more than two million downloads of its Bait! game for the Gear VR and Daydream platforms, VR developer Resolution Games is bringing the virtual fishing fun to augmented reality. Scheduled for release in 2018, Bait! Under the Surface opens up fishing holes in a user’s floor or street. It’s all the joys of...
Sony’s Ghost Corps, the caretaker of the Ghostbusters franchise, just released some pre-alpha gameplay footage from the upcoming Ghostbusters World location-based AR game to whet the appetites of would-be hunters of the paranormal. Built on the new Google Maps API, the game looks about as similar to Pokémon GO as expected. Players navigate a map...
While much of the technical specifications of the Magic Leap One: Creator Edition still remain a mystery, some clues to its internals are hidden among the guides in the now freely-accessible Creator Portal. An article titled “NVIDIA Tegra Graphics Debugger” appears to confirm that Magic Leap One (or ML1 for short) will contain an Nvidia...
Following the surprise release of Magic Leap’s SDK on Monday, March 19, Unity, Unreal Engine, and Mozilla followed up by announcing official partnerships with the company. “We are proud to partner with Magic Leap to integrate the Magic Leap platform with Unity,” Unity announced on its official blog. “For all creators looking to get started...
A funny thing happened on the way to the release of the virtual reality epic Ready Player One — augmented reality grabbed a major piece of the spotlight. Specifically, Microsoft’s HoloLens. It all started last week when the film’s director, Steven Spielberg, was quoted in an interview saying that the Oculus Rift had been used...
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