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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.

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
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
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
HoloLens comes to the NFL: Mixed River's mixed reality playbook

NFL's mixed reality playbook

Meet the startup using Microsoft's headset to bring holographic players to the field
Merge thinks augmented reality is more fun when you can touch it

Touching AR is even more fun

And its new AR cube will let you do just that
Microsoft's Mixed Reality headsets are now available to everyone

Windows Mixed Reality headsets now available

They're still developer edition, but you're a 'developer' at heart
VTech's Kidizoom DX2 smartwatch has two cameras and AR games

Kidizoom DX2 watch has AR games

Plus instructions to Silly Yourself - sure, why not
Meet the people making augmented reality magic with Apple's ARKit

The people making AR(Kit) magic

Apple's AR platform is already causing a stir, and it's not even landed yet
Leap Motion is looking to mobile VR, China and full VR embodiment

Where Leap Motion goes next

The journey to a post-controller future
Mira's Prism headset for iPhone is a $99 HoloLens rival

Trying out Mira's mobile AR headset

Is this the gateway drug augmented reality headsets need?
Disney and Lenovo's Star Wars AR has lightsaber controls

Star Wars AR has lightsaber controls

Lenovo has a new smartphone AR/VR headset that's 'coming soon'
Why Meta's AR vision of the future should excite you - and scare HoloLens

Meta should have HoloLens worried

AR Week: Let’s get (Meta)physical
The best AR apps for smartglasses and wearables so far

The best AR apps so far

It's early days for augmented reality applications
Avegant's AR headset won me over with 'light field' and David Bowie

How Avegant's light field changes AR

AR Week: Avegant's light field does wonders for our eyes
The future of AR is...

The future of AR is...

AR Week: Editors, experts and industry insiders cast their predictions
Trending: AR and sporting worlds collide

Trending: AR and sport collide

It's still early days, but the future is bright
Microsoft’s AR end game is to bring Mixed Reality and HoloLens together

Microsoft is merging VR, MR and AR

AR Week: Microsoft shares its plans to build the spectrum between AR and VR
Alpha Labs wants to bring you your first pair of casual AR glasses

Alpha Labs' casual AR glasses

Finally, something that looks more like your regular glasses
Meet Apple's AR dream team

Meet Apple's AR dream team

The engineers, execs and researchers building Apple's secret AR tech
UC Berkeley is working on AR that will help us talk to robots

UC Berkeley's VR and AR dreams

We visit the famous university's exciting AR and VR division
Virtual reality v augmented reality: Which is the future?

VR v AR: Which is the future?

Fancy spending time in a better version of the real world or new, artificial worlds?