Augmented Reality (AR) can be fun technology to play with. The basic premise of AR is to overlay digital content on top of real things using something like a map, a camera, or sometimes the sky.

Apple's ARKit platform lets developers create interactive augmented reality apps, complete with 2D and 3D elements. AR apps leverage your iPhone's cameras, display, graphics processor, and machine ...

While augmented reality (AR) may seem like sci-fi jargon, and associated with expensive, experimental devices like the Microsoft Hololens, in fact, augmented reality is widely available, and has been ...

In mid-November, several striking monuments rose out of the earth in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. One paid tribute to Gaspar Yanga, a slave-turned-liberator who led a successful uprising against ...

Laser Dance is an upcoming mixed reality game that seeks to use Quest’s passthrough capability as more than just a background. In this Guest Article, developer Thomas Van Bouwel explains his approach ...

Kenneth Ma, left, a member of the University of Washington team behind the PrezVR virtual reality presentation app, gives a demo to Lawrence Tan, right, a fellow computer science student attending the ...

Meta’s dedicated Quest Pro section of its app store is mainly filled with what you’d expect: wall-to-wall VR meeting apps, with only a few outliers to break up the monotony. When you’re using a VR ...

Learning to draw can feel like a daunting task, but the Quest 3 is here to help. A team of developers figured out a fun way to teach the techniques and skills of drawing with the help of mixed reality ...

Pokémon Go may have kick-started the augmented reality trend in smartphone games, but it’s not the only app to use the technique. The latest to join the trend? The United States Postal Service. The ...

A new smartphone app developed by researchers at the University of Basel is using augmented reality to help reduce a person’s fear of spiders. In a study published in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders ...

Much of the Windows mixed-reality platform depends on Unity. However, that’s not always the best option for many reasons, especially its licensing model that’s still very focused on the games market.