Tag: #augmentedreality

The long-awaited augmented reality game based on the Harry Potter franchise from Pokémon GO masterminds Niantic is closer to release, as the developer has begun public beta testing of the app. On Tuesday, the beta version of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, built in partnership with Niantic, Warner Bros., and Portkey Games, launched published to Google...

We’ve captured much of Niantic’s ongoing story in the first three parts of our EC-1, from its beginnings as an “entrepreneurial lab” within Google, to its spin-out as an independent company and the launch of Pokémon GO, to its ongoing focus on becoming a platform for others to build augmented reality products upon. The Niantic...

Smartglasses maker Vuzix made a big splash at CES 2018 with the inclusion of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant among the AR superpowers of its consumer-centric Blade smartglasses. Now, it’s time to tell Alexa to make room, as Vuzix is bringing Google Assistant support to Blade. The app is now available via the Vuzix App Store....

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Two years ago, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the F8 Developers Conference keynote with augmented reality and the introduction of Facebook’s AR camera platform, now known as Spark AR. Since then, Facebook has faced an avalanche of controversy on its approach to user data, so augmented reality took a back seat to...

It turns out that the video Magic Leap released earlier today was indeed a teaser for the public release of the Game of thrones experience for meant for all Magic Leap One users. Available now for download in the Magic Leap World section, the app is a free download that allows you to enter the...

With $100 million in grant funding already available to developers via its MegaGrants program, Epic Games is sweetening the pot with some gear for Magic Leap developers. At last week’s Unreal Engine Build: Detroit ’19 event, Epic Games announced that it would supply Magic Leap One headsets, which retail for $2,295, free of charge to...

There are only three more episodes of Game of Thrones left before the saga is over, but Magic Leap is capitalizing on the series’ popularity while it still can. As we’ve reported in recent weeks, Magic Leap is giving demos of its augmented reality headset at select AT&T stores around the country using its “Dead...

If Magic Leap fails, the skeptics will at least have to admire the AR startup’s keen ability to raise vast amounts of capital. The company announced today that it has locked down another $280 million in a deal with Japan’s largest mobile operator, Docomo. The deal brings the company’s ever-swelling total cash raised to $2.6...

RosieReality, a startup out of Zürich developing consumer augmented reality experiences, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding led by Redalpine. Other backers include Shasta Ventures, Atomico partners Mattias Ljungman and Siraj Khaliq (both of whom invested in a personal capacity) and Akatsuki Entertainment Fund. Founded in early 2018, RosieReality’s first AR experience is designed...