Augmented Reality

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd (NYSE: TSM) are reportedly working on the development of ultra-advanced display technology in Taiwan. What Happened: The Tim Cook-led company is planning to use the micro OLED displays in future augmented reality devices,...

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) is planning a virtual reality headset that may ultimately lead it to sell augmented reality glasses, Bloomberg reported Thursday. What Happened: The headset with the working name N301 is still in a prototype stage, while the glasses dubbed N421 are at a nascent stage known...

Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) new range of iPhones will support a Light Detection And Ranging Scanner (LiDAR), which allows for deeper and more precise augmented reality (AR) experiences. According to TechCrunch, Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP)-owned Snapchat will be among the first to...

Virtual reality headset maker Oculus announced Tuesday that a user account with parent company Facebook Inc's (NASDAQ: FB) namesake social media platform would be necessary to log into its devices beginning October 2020. What Happened The Mark Zuckerberg-led company’s VR...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is considering acquiring the video service firm NextVR for $100 million, according to an unconfirmed report by 9to5Mac.  The company produces virtual reality video from special events and has partnerships with organizations including the NBA, Wimbledon and...

Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) reported a fourth-quarter revenue miss and widening year-over-year loss. Snap's total addressable market represents a top concern for investors to "worry about most," Needham analyst Laura Martin wrote in a note. Management said the...

Maple Leaf Motoring is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of Canadian transportation. This week: Challenger Motor Freight gets into augmented reality, group pushes for Oshawa plan EV conversion, and trucker charged with reckless driving after rollover on 401.  A major Canadian trucking...

Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) has unveiled Spectacles 3, the latest version of Spectacles sunglasses with dual HD cameras priced at $380. The company says the Spectacles 3, are a redesigned version of its augmented reality sunglasses with a sleek new design and an added HD camera to create depth...

Algo.ai, a Troy, Michigan-based startup with a collaborative intelligence platform used by suppliers to major retailers, is joining NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA)’s Inception accelerator program. The Nvidia accelerator provides Algo.ai with resources as it continues to develop deep...

The typical course of action investors take with new exchange traded funds is to wait for the rookie fund to accumulate some assets and decent trading volume before committing their own capital. Some new ETFs, however, do merit immediate consideration, particularly when the fundamentals for...

Video content is picking up steam across the financial industry as online brokerages seek to move away from dreary PDF statements as the medium of choice for reporting results. The reason for the move to video can be captured in a single number: $30 trillion. That's the amount of money set to...

An exchange traded fund dedicated to the augmented and virtual reality investment themes is here. The Defiance Future Tech ETF (NYSE: AUGR) debuted Wednesday courtesy of upstart issuer Defiance ETFs. The Defiance Future Tech ETF is the first ETF from New York-based Defiance. What Happened AUGR...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) hosted its WWDC 2018 presentation Monday, and in Macquarie Research's view it was a "relatively low-key event" with "no big surprises."  The Analyst Analyst Benjamin Schachter maintains an Outperform rating on Apple with an unchanged $...

Last fall, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) popped 12 percent ahead of its annual device unveiling. The preceding Worldwide Developers Conference proved less galvanizing. “The stock doesn’t have as much movement around this,” Loup Ventures managing partner Gene Munster told Benzinga....

Legal teams at the world’s top tech companies are bracing for a new era — one that aligns the real world with an increasingly expansive virtual one. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)’s Oculus and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG)’s Daydream already market virtual reality...