MetaHuman Creator Will Transform Industries

MetaHumans are Epic's version of virtual humans. Now available in early access, their Creator tool will transform industries.

Tim Cook, Apple and Curated (XR) Reality

Apple won't follow the VR paradigm when it launches optical devices. Instead, the Apple 'reality' will be subtle and will focus on enhancing rather than replacing reality.

Apple Is In No Rush To Change The World

Apple will reinvent itself. But will it happen in a single "big bang" moment at WWDC, with new devices and a new vision for how computing works? Not so fast.

Scan Everything: Building the Infrastructure for Augmented Reality

Everything is being scanned. From avocados to Amsterdam, from your living room to the local park, it has become easier than ever to take 3D snapshots of physical things.

Apple Launches An AR Cloud (Selectively)

Apple has launched an AR Cloud to allow precise location-based augmented reality experiences. But there’s a caveat: it’s only available in 5 US cities (Miami, LA, San Francisco, Chicago and New York). But at least Apple has put a stake in the ground: they are now officially an

Snapchat Is The World's Leading Augmented Reality Company

For this week at least, Snapchat is the world’s leading augmented reality (AR) company. They’ve taken top position because they’ve tackled the four pillars of AR. The Snapchat Partner Summit was a rocket ship. It catapulted them from being an ‘app company’ to a full-blown AR platform.

Augmented Reality Turning Point

The summer of 2020 will be remembered for a lot of things. Augmented reality probably won’t be one of them. And yet if this was any other time, the hype machine would be clicking into high gear and we’d be hearing about waves of VC investments and reading

Unplug: Getting Away from Augmented Reality

The engine sputtered to a stop in the middle of the St. Lawrence River. The current here was fast and the river was wide and there were no obvious places to shelter while we fixed it. My heart sank. It happened after a nearly catastrophic two weeks involving an underwater

XR and the Metaverse: Privacy By Design

Innovative XR designs for privacy can be embedded in the glasses themselves. How these issues play out will give the Multiverse/Metaverse different "flavours" depending whose device you own.

Points of Light: AWE and Augmented Reality

THE AWE conference [https://www.awexr.com] comes at a good time. We’ve been working in our bubbles for too long. It’s hard to get a sense of where things are headed, a thousand Zoom calls notwithstanding. And while it has had its fair of panels and talks