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You're building an Android app with Jetpack Compose. You need 3D. Maybe a product viewer, a model configurator, or AR furniture placement. You search. You ask ChatGPT. You try Copilot. And you get: Unity (50MB+, no Compose), raw Filament (1000 lines to render a cube), or Sceneform (deprecated since 2021). There's a gap. Android has no built-in 3D composable. Until now. SceneView: 3D as a Composab…

Flying Magazine reports, "For the first time, U.S. military helicopter pilots will train using augmented reality (AR) technology that can recreate... The post U.S. Army Apache Pilots to Train with Augmented Reality for First Time appeared first on AIAA - Shaping the future of aerospace .

As an augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) specialist at Duke, David Zielinski often finds himself in the middle of... The post How David Zielinski Brings Extended Reality to Life at Duke appeared first on Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation .

The smart glasses landscape has exploded in 2025. What was once a niche, experimental corner of the wearables world has become one of its most exciting frontiers, with new devices launching at a blistering pace. From AI-powered overlays to glasses that act as a personal cinema, the next generation of smart eyewear is here. The [...] The post Best smart glasses and AR specs: We test Ray-Ban Meta, …

The post NGN: Escape rooms are fun, but they could also help make VR and AR effective tools for education and AI, research finds appeared first on Khoury College of Computer Sciences .

Supported with gradually advancing AR and VR technologies, social VR platforms began to offer various opportunities for users to interact, communicate, and create with others in a shared digital space. Launched in 2014 and used by millions across the world today, VRChat platform is one such place where participants engage in practices such as role-playing, ASMR, and cross-gender avatar embodiment…

Oliver Kreylos, virtual reality research specialist at the UC Davis DataLab, won UC IT’s 2023 Larry L. Sautter Golden Award for his work on two open source technologies —  the Augmented Reality (AR) Sandbox and the Virtual Reality User Interface (Vrui) — that make it easier for researchers and students to explore concepts involving 3D […]

In short Why it matters Celebrating 10 years of commercial AR hardware 2023 marks the 10-year anniversary of Google’s infamous Google Glass launch, which rocked the tech world in 2013 and started the era of commercial AR headsets. In those 10 years, we have seen two generations of AR headsets, but adoption has lagged behind […] The post The enterprise AR market and the industrial metaverse: Why 2…

US Army soldiers are evaluating the latest iteration of Microsoft’s modified HoloLens 2 headset as part of the service’s effort to inject augmented reality (AR) into how the force trains and conducts combat missions. Under the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) programme, the service is working with Microsoft to militarise the company’s HoloLens 2 AR […]

Jarvish X-AR will keep you safe and connected on your bike The post This smart motorcycle helmet brings Alexa and AR to the road appeared first on Wareable .

… and how User Research can help Over the last few years, I’ve researched and played many Augmented Reality games. Through this experience, and from looking at reviews of other AR games, I’ve learned how critical user research is to the production of a good AR game, and what can go wrong when research isn’t […] The post The problem with AR games… appeared first on Steve Bromley - User Research .