Augmented Reality

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.

The Dejarik holochess game we see Chewbacca and R2-D2 playing in the original Star Wars is one step closer to reality – or augmented reality, anyway.

BAE Systems has unveiled the finalized prototype of its lightweight augmented reality headset that is about the size of a pair of glasses.

Loog Guitars has kicked off a crowdfunding campaign to fund three learning guitars for kids with a built-in amp and speaker.

In recent tests, it has been shown that a depth perception-boosting headset could help legally-blind users to avoid collisions.