If you’re a part of Generation X or a Millennial, there’s a good chance that the first mobile game you played was Snake on an old school Nokia phone. Now, you can relive that nostalgia of monochrome and push buttons in augmented reality with the Facebook Camera. HMD Global, the company behind the current iteration...
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Naked Labs raises $14M Series A led by Founders Fund for its 3D body scanning mirror
When it comes to measuring your fitness progress, there’s only so much your weight scale can tell you, actually there’s only one thing it can convey. That one metric hardly encapsulates all of the successes that active people are looking to achieve. Naked Labs believes that body shape is a more important thing to measure...
Snapchat Adds Speech-Activated Lenses to Its Augmented Reality Capabilities
Snapchat users are used to raising their eyebrows or opening their mouths to activate augmented reality face effects. Now, they get to use their voices as well. On Wednesday, the speech-activated Lenses will begin appearing in the carousel and will continue to show up occasionally from here on out. “Hi!”. “Love!”. The first voice-activated examples...
Snapchat Celebrates Harry Potter’s Birthday with Quidditch Bitmojis
Now even muggles can see how they’d look chasing the Golden Snitch on a Nimbus 2000. That’s because Snapchat is gifting Harry Potter fans with a 3D Bitmoji Lens that adorns their digital doppelgängers in the robes of the houses of Hogwarts. To cast this AR spell with your Snapchat wand, just long-press the camera...
Microsoft Update Adds Miracast & More Sharing Functions to HoloLens
The latest preview build for Microsoft HoloLens is packed with new sharing features, including support for the Miracast protocol. Available in the Insider Preview RS5 for the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Miracast enables HoloLens users to mirror their view to a nearby Surface device or TVs and monitors equipped with a Microsoft display adapter....
Magic Leap’s ‘Blink’ Demo Shows How Eye Tracking & Spatial Audio Make Virtual Content Come Alive
Over the past few weeks, a trio of developer lessons (one of which was revealed in Magic Leap’s most recent Twitch livestream) have revealed samples of experiences that are possible while using the Magic Leap One. Now, a developer has tipped us off to some of the assets related to a fourth, unpublished lesson, called...
Magic Leap One’s Battery Life, Memory Specs Revealed
Last week, Magic Leap gave us an additional peek at its Lumin OS and more tutorials that show how its device works with virtual content. But details about the hardware wasn’t included in the array of new information. Now, thanks to a developer with a keen eye for source code, we have more information regarding...
Magic Leap One Field of View Specs Finally Uncovered
In the lead up to the Magic Leap One launch, Magic Leap has been coy about what the actual field of view (FoV) is for its first commercial product. Now, a developer noticed that the client-side source code of the FoV documentation (published last month as a placeholder with the just the text “Coming soon...
Magic Leap Reservation Page, Images Hint at Impending Release
The Magic Leap One: Creator Edition has been teased for months now, and while we still don’t know exactly when the sales will begin, it can’t be long now because we’ve discovered a couple of new hints that the device’s launch is imminent, hiding in plain sight on the company’s website. For those who aren’t...
Magic Leap details what its mixed reality OS will look like
Magic Leap just updated its developer documentation and a host of new details and imagery are being spread around on Reddit and Twitter, sharing more specifics on how the company’s Lumin OS will look like on their upcoming Magic Leap One device. It’s mostly a large heaping of nitty-gritty details, but we also get a...
