Augmented Reality (AR) can be fun technology to play with. The basic premise of AR is to overlay digital content on top of real things using something like a map, a camera, or sometimes the sky.

As technology becomes an increasingly important part of life for people across the spectrum of age, a new mobile application being developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison aims ...

Apple's ARKit platform lets developers create interactive augmented reality apps, complete with 2D and 3D elements. AR apps leverage your iPhone's cameras, display, graphics processor, and machine ...

Weren’t we supposed to be watching movies wearing virtual reality helmets by now? Full immersion, not just 3D. But the technology, it turned out, fell short of its lofty promise. Helmets delivered ...

Pokémon Go may have kick-started the augmented reality trend in smartphone games, but it’s not the only app to use the technique. The latest to join the trend? The United States Postal Service. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Damien McDuffie is an artist, historian and archivist and this West Oakland native has recently added software developer to his résumé. Over the past two years, McDuffie has built an ...

There’s nothing better than gazing up at the stars on a night out. For $3, Pocket Universe: Virtual Sky Astronomy, using sorta-augmented reality, lets the astronomically impaired among us impress our ...

The clip shows a mind-blowing iPhone app being used that employs augmented reality to de-clothe unwitting victims being viewed through the iPhone’s camera. Seems like great idea, judging by the ...

Audi has teamed up with software developer Metaio to launch an augmented reality iOS app for A3 owners that serves as a hi-tech instruction manual for their car. The eKurzinfo application is designed ...

OpenAI recently announced powerful new ChatGPT capabilities, including the ability to use pictures in addition to text prompts for conversations with the AI chatbot. (The company also announced that ...

A measuring tape is one of those tools that always seems to be missing when you need it most. What you do have, though, is your phone, and its camera can actually serve as a handy substitute for a ...