Mixed Reality News

The buzz around Apple's extended reality ambitions has reached fever pitch. After months of typical Apple secrecy, we're finally getting concrete glimpses into what Apple has been cooking up beyond the Vision Pro—and these leaks suggest something bigger than incremental updates. Let's break down what multiple supply chain reports and patent filings reveal about the company's surprisingly ambitious XR roadmap.

We know your time is valuable to you, so starting this week — and continuing every Wednesday — we are going to release weekly Dev Reports that quickly highlight important news and updates that augmented and mixed reality developers should know about.

Soon, users will no longer need an expensive headset or even a smartphone to experience mixed reality. The new Microsoft update will be bringing mixed reality applications to every Windows computer next month. This new upgrade to Windows 10 named the Windows 10 Creators Update.

If you're part of the Windows 10 Insider Program, build 15048 launched this morning, and included a nice big unannounced surprise. You can now launch the Mixed Reality Portal and enable the simulation to try out mixed reality right from your PC, even if you don't have one of the new Acer dev kits.

San Diego, California - Independent developer & founder Michael L. Farrell of Verto Studio LLC today is pleased to introduce Verto Studio VR for HoloLens and Windows Holographic Devices, his fully-capable holographic 3D modeling studio and generalized augmented reality tool. The app supports importing of FBX, DAE, OBJ, STL (and more) files, allowing users to download thousands of different wire mesh models or create their own. Any 3D file that users have sitting on their PC or tablet is now...

As we slowly approach its January 3 start date, CES 2017 seems to be shaping up to be an exciting year for smart glasses as well as augmented and mixed reality.

With most augmented and mixed reality devices, you wear a purchased headset and use it alone, in a place of your choice—but not this one. Ben Sax decided to reinvent the binoculars to create a mixed reality experience that anyone can walk up to and try for free. He calls it the Perceptoscope.

Our future technology has a lot of amazing possibilities, and few have more promise than augmented and mixed reality headsets. But these advancements come with several concerns over privacy, and if we don't understand them, we may lose control of our own data without even knowing.