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Unique First-Person AR-Based Adventure ‘Waking Tides’ Launches Today on Steam
This is good news for fans of AR gaming experiences, as Waking Tides is officially releasing on Steam today for PC. The game was designed and produced by Dries Schaballie publishing as AirshipFX, and promises an innovative and captivating atmospheric adventure game that thrives on experimentation. Created using the latest Unreal Engine 5 technology, the…
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More Details Emerge About Lenovo Legion GO Including AR Glasses
More information has emerged about Lenovo’s Legion Go handheld with more details about the specs and even some AR Glasses that are expected to pair up with the console. Lenovo AR Glasses Again this information has been shared by WindowsReport.com and involves a new set of AR Glasses that are…
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Microsoft Agrees $22BN HoloLens Headset Deal With US Army
While Microsoft’s ‘HoloLens’ augmented reality headset is certainly a very impressive piece of technology, it does come with one pretty major caveat for the general consumer. Namely, that it’s really expensive! – It was, in fact, so expensive that when the original model was released, Microsoft was seemingly more interested…
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Apple’s VR Headset Might Cost as Much as $3,000!
Late last month, rumours began to emerge that Apple was set to supersede the release of its well-publicized AR (augmented reality) headset in favour of a VR design. Oh, don’t get us wrong, the AR headset is still coming, but the inside information suggested that its development was taking a…
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Apple to Release a VR Headset Before AR Glasses?
It’s been well-known for more than a little while now that Apple has been investing a lot of money into the development of AR (augmented reality) glasses. To date, however, no products have yet seen the light of day nor has there been any overly encouraging news suggesting that a…
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Lenovo Unveils its AR ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses
Following a formal announcement at CES 2021, Lenovo has today introduced the ThinkReality A3 lightweight smart glasses. One of the most advanced and versatile enterprise smart glasses to come to market, the ThinkReality A3 is part of a comprehensive digital solution offering to deliver intelligent transformation in business and bring…
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Magic Leap Announces They’re Looking for a New CEO
Around a month ago, the future of Magic Leap seemed more than a little uncertain as the company confirmed not only staff lay-offs but also a major restructuring process. While it wasn’t cited as a specific reason, it didn’t exactly take a business genius to figure out that this was…
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Magic Leap Raises Another $350m in Investment
It’s been around a year now since Magic Leap debuted their Creator Edition AR (augmented reality) headsets and so far, it’s been anything but a success. In fact, as of December (the last time confirmed sales figures were revealed) they had only managed to sell around 6,000 units. Despite huge…
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Magic Leap Confirms Major Restructuring as Cash Runs Thin!
Magic Leap first launched its consumer-level AR (augmented reality) headsets to the market in mid-2018 and, so far, sales have been more than a little disappointing. How badly is it doing? Well, while we don’t have any up-to-date figures, we do know that as of December 2019, total sales were…
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Magic Leap One Creator Edition Has Only Sold 6,000 Units
Around 6-months ago, the Magic Leap One Creator Edition augmented reality headset finally went on sale. Selling for around £2300, it was clearly pretty expensive. It did, however, offer some very impressive features in what was (at least potentially) one of the most exciting AR headsets around. So, what were…
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Microsoft Confirm HoloLens 2 Release Date
While the Microsoft HoloLens hasn’t exactly been setting the world on fire since its initial release, it has been known for some time that the company was working on a new updated version that would include a significant number of improvements. One of the main key questions, however, has been…
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Analyst Predicts Apple AR Will Arrive In 2020
Apple AR To Arrive In 2020? At the moment, both VR and AR represent some of the most heavily invested sectors in the technology world. There are very few companies or corporations on the Nasdaq 100 that are not, in some way, looking into the technology. In a report via…
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Microsoft Reveal HoloLens 2 With a Hefty Price Tag
Microsoft Reveal HoloLens 2 Microsoft is currently one of the biggest companies investing in AR (augmented reality) technology. With the release of their HoloLens, we got to see the potential of what it had to offer combining the ‘real world’ with artificially inserted aspects via the headset display. While it’s development…
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Microsoft Workers Demand Army HoloLens Contract Is Dropped
Microsoft Workers Unhappy Over Army Contract Various military forces around the world have expressed a very strong interest in VR or AR technology. This is largely for implementation either in training or actually on the battlefield. This is, however, ethically a rather difficult situation as the technology companies that create…
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Apple Reportedly Launching a Cheaper iPad Mini in Spring
Long Overdue iPad Mini Update Apple has not released a new iPad Mini tablet since 2015. However, according to sources close to Bloomberg, the company is planning to launch a new one soon. It will have a faster processor, retain the lightning Port and a new home screen as part…
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