Augmented Reality

Facebook's Reality Labs Research wing is currently working on a number of projects designed to help us cut through noisy environments and zero in on folks we're trying to hold a conversation with, or enhance our daily lives when used with AR glasses.

Mario Kart is the latest game to cross over into the real world via augmented reality (AR). Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit lets you drive a little remote-controlled kart around the floor using the Switch console, dodging virtual racers and items.

It's easier to keep pace or beat your personal bests when running with a partner, rather than alone. A new AR headset called the Ghost Pacer helps you do that even when your friends are busy, by pitting you against a virtual avatar only you can see.

Dreamworld is back with another pair of augmented reality glasses: the DreamGlass 4K. With an improved 4K resolution and 5G connectivity, these could be the perfect at-home entertainment system now that we're all spending more time indoors.

Phoria is a startup working to leverage VR and AR technologies to take its users to entirely new places. New Atlas sat down with its CEO Trent Clews-de Castella to discuss its ambitions, and where its experiences might be taking people in the future.

Although augmented reality (AR) glasses are potentially very useful, they can also be awkward to wear and kind of funny-looking. California-based startup Mojo Vision is developing a sleeker, less-dorky alternative, in the form of an AR contact lens.

HUD's have all kinds of potential applications, but what if your car's entire windscreen was a mixed reality display, capable of overlaying all manner of graphics and animations over the view forward and even acting as a movie screen for passengers?

In the age of wearable computers, scientists in the laboratories of DARPA, Google, and universities around the world see contact lenses not as tools to improve our vision, but as opportunities to augment the human experience. But how? And why?

In order for AR systems to recognize locations from a user's ground-level perspective, they first have to be "trained" using ground-level images of those same places. Sturfee's City AR system, however, works quicker by utilizing satellite photos.

When you think of Lenovo, probably the first thing that comes to mind is computers. Last weekend at the VR/AR Global Summit, however, the company displayed its latest foray into the world of augmented reality headsets – the ThinkReality A6.

Misadventure in Little Lon is a location-based, augmented reality mobile game that asks players to help solve a century-old crime by walking the real-world streets of Melbourne, Australia, and talking to virtual characters. New Atlas goes hands-on.

New technology known as Portal-ble allows the users of smartphone-based AR systems to put their hands in the picture.