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The latest AR (augmented reality) news, reviews, features and guides from the likes of HoloLens, Magic Leap, Apple ARKit and more.

Microsoft is going big on education for Windows Mixed Realty

Windows Mixed Reality beefing up education

Microsoft wants your kids to learn a lot in WMR
Apple, Snap and Facebook met with AR suppliers at CES 2018, says report

Apple met with AR suppliers at CES 2018

The race to smartglasses is well and truly on
Vuzix Blade makes AR glasses look better than ever, in more ways than one

Vuzix Blade does Google Glass right

CES 2018: The glasses get an Alexa boost
ARCore explained: What you need to know about Google's Apple ARKit rival

Breaking down Google ARCore

The lowdown on the augmented reality platform
Merge's new 6DoF Blaster lets you explore VR without a headset

Merge Blaster gives you VR without a headset

CES 2018: Want to get into VR without a headset? Merge has got you
The world's most hotly anticipated wearable tech

World's most anticipated wearables

Here's what's on the horizon for 2018
The best ARKit apps and games you need to try right now

The best ARKit apps

Got iOS 11? You need to give these a try
2017 in review: The year in VR and AR

VR and AR: Year in review

The ups and downs of the last 12 months
Magic Leap's mixed reality glasses are real and shipping next year

Magic Leap reveals its One AR glasses

The Creator Edition is coming in 2018
MAD Gaze wants to slip its Vader AR headset in before the 2020 rush

MAD Gaze's AR headset gets ahead

Meet the latest AR headset that wants to be ahead of the curve
Apple just reportedly bought augmented reality headset startup Vrvana

Apple reportedly buys AR headset startup

Apple's ramping up its AR efforts
Why Vive Tracker and Resident Evil 7 won our VR/AR awards of the year

Why Vive Tracker is a VR winner

Awards: HTC's Vive add-on was a deserved winner
​Becoming a Jedi with the Lenovo Mirage

Becoming a Jedi with Lenovo's Mirage

AR fun to be had, there is
The big ideas at Web Summit show where AR and VR are headed next

The big ideas from Web Summit 2017

Augmented Android, virtual learning and memory hacking chips ahead
Apple working on an AR headset powered by rOS for release in 2020, claims report

Apple's AR headset planned for 2020

It's planning the unveiling for 2019
Acer Mixed Reality headset review

Acer Mixed Reality HMD

Acer's Mixed Reality headset leaves us with mixed feelings
What AR needs to do to succeed, according to one of its biggest investors

How we get to the future of AR

The AR future is still far away, but how do we get there?
Merge Cube review

Merge Cube

Come for the VR headset, stay for the AR fun
Microsoft turned me into a hologram at its new Capture Studio

Microsoft turned me into a hologram

I visited the Microsoft Reactor and all I got was this damned hologram
Everysight's AR cycling smart glasses landing February 2018 from $649

Everysight's AR glasses priced at $649

Early adopters will get a special discounted price
How Ikea became an AR leader in the race to the connected you

Ikea and the AR arms race

Ikea is blazing a new path in augmented reality, but others are catching up
VR headsets are set to grow big in the next couple years, but AR headsets will boom

AR is set to eclipse VR

VR may have the momentum now, but AR will
Samsung could be set to join the Windows Mixed Reality headset party

Samsung mixed reality headset shows up

Built-in AKG headphones and controllers shown off in renders
Intel Alloy VR headset has been scrapped

Intel's Alloy VR headset has been canned

Apparently there wasn't a lot of interest in the reference design headset
The Freefly FF3 is a hybrid headset that can let you experience VR, AR and MR

Freefly FF3 is a headset for all realities

For when real life just ain’t enough
Skully AR motorcycle helmet is being brought back to life

Skully AR smart helmet is set to live on

New startup determined to make things right for original Skully backers
ARKit guide: Everything you need to know about Apple's big augmented reality bet

Apple ARKit: Essential guide

Apple is ready to jump into the world of AR
Disney Research: The best projects, from Magic Bench to talking lights

The best Disney Research projects

The wonderful world of research
Inside LA’s exploding VR and AR scene

LA’s exploding VR and AR scene

The VR games, AR movie apps, and hardware coming out of LA’s virtual tech hub
Lenovo Mirage is an AR headset exclusively for Jedi Knights - for now

Lenovo unveils its Star Wars AR headset

IFA 2017: Never tell me the odds - just the price
How Google’s ARCore will take on Apple's ARKit – the race to our face is on

Google ARCore taking on ARKit

Things are about to get very interesting
ARCore is Google's Android AR platform set to rival Apple's ARKit

Google's ARCore for Android means business

Android is getting up in AR
SteamVR is coming to Windows Mixed Reality, so you'll have some games to play

SteamVR coming to Windows Mixed Reality

Microsoft reveals there'll be two different Mixed Realities
What wearable tech investors are looking for in 2017

What investors are looking for in 2017

We ask VCs what big tech trends they're looking to invest in
How Dolby Vision and Atmos could take VR immersion to another level

Dolby's tech could be huge for VR

But we need a revolution in resolution first
Facebook's AR glasses patent shows it's taking augmented reality seriously

Facebook's new AR smartglasses patent

Here's what we could be waiting five years for
Snapchat AR glasses investigation: Augmented reality specs are in the works

Snapchat AR glasses investigation

Snap needs a hero – and this could be it
What it's like to spend a day at VR World, the virtual reality theme park

Spending a day at VR World

High score tournaments, youth VR workshops and rotating art exhibitions
#Trending: Snapchat's sticky situation and how wearables might be the way out

#Trending: Snap's tricky situation

The company is in a tight spot
BlackBerry makes its first wearable play with AR smartglasses

BlackBerry enters smartglasses space

BB is teaming up with AR powerhouse Vuzix
Apple's testing multiple AR headsets, as IDC predicts boom times ahead

Apple's betting early on AR boom

Big numbers for AR by 2021, apparently
Neurable's HTC Vive add-on lets you control VR with your mind

Control VR with your mind

Physical controllers are so 2016