Internet memes are simply everywhere these days. While they’ve been popular since the ’90s, memes, as we know them now, are much different these days. You used to need a computer to make viral images that spread from one random user to the next, but thanks to modern technology, you can quickly create [...]

Snapchat and Snap Camera aren’t the only augmented reality apps available for couples to use on Valentine’s Day.

Google has added an augmented reality video effect to Duo, its latest video communications app for iOS and Android. Now, when recording a video message, Duo users can touch the “Valentine’s Day effect” button to [...]

We’re still weeks away from a probably HoloLens 2 release, but Microsoft’s immersive computing team is still hard at work on other aspects of its “mixed reality” ecosystem.

Earlier this week, Microsoft published a new extension for Unity and the Mixed Reality Tookit that enables developers to better replicate the natural lighting in [...]

The actual augmented reality portion of Pokémon GO is about to get even more fun for players.

On Tuesday, the company revealed GO Snapshot, an extension of AR+ Mode facilitated by ARKit and ARCore that will enable players to pose Pokémon characters in augmented reality for photo capture.

“We’ve been inspired by the [...]

While Apple augmented reality smartglasses are not yet official, the tech giant is ramping up its resources by appointing company veteran Frank Casanova to promote its augmented reality offerings.

Casanova has worked at Apple for about 30 years, most recently as the leader for marketing iPhones with wireless carriers. He was notably as [...]

Mobile app publishers are using augmented reality to solve everyday measurement problems from measuring the length or height of items to previewing furniture in the home.

Now, it looks like checking luggage dimensions for carry-on eligibility is another volumetric problem increasingly being solved by augmented reality, as UK airline easyJet has added just [...]

The augmented reality walking navigation mode for Google Maps appears to be closer to an upcoming release for the general public.

Google recently granted the Wall Street Journal (paywall) a sneak peek at the navigation mode via a preview build, and the newspaper published its first impressions on Sunday.

According to the paper, [...]

Your Instagram feed is jam-packed with interesting and lively photos, videos, and stories that largely offset the iOS app’s comparatively bland user interface. If the interface’s dull colors have always bothered you, you can splash on some much-needed color to better reflect your personality and tastes.

While there are no built-in settings to [...]

Browsing the web can be dangerous. With all of the various threats out there, it isn’t enough to just avoid bad links and visit only HTTPS websites. You need to take advantage of the tools available to you so you don’t end up the victim of some scam. Fortunately, Opera is making this [...]

This week, the recurring theme in augmented reality can be summed up fairly succinctly: content is king.

For Magic Leap, content comes in the form of the delivery of the Madefire immersive comics app. In the case of Apple, content arrives via a virtual try-on tool from Warby Parker that results in some [...]