Apple buys AR/VR technology platform Spaces, a former project of DreamWorks Animation

[ad_1] Apple has apparently acquired Spaces, an augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) technology startup that was spun out from DreamWorks Animation in 2016, for an undisclosed sum. Apple’s confirmed the acquisition with its boilerplate statement: “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans.” According …

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Amazon’s shopping app brings enhanced AR tools

[ad_1] Augmented reality has a few quite legitimate use cases, like home furnishing. Ikea uses augmented reality in its Place app to a great success, and now Amazon’s expanded augmented reality capabilities of its shopping app with a new Room Decorator feature making it easy to create more than a hundred different configurations consisting of …

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