Apple hid an AR Easter egg in its September event announcement

Apple has officially announced its upcoming “Time Flies” event for September 15th, and the company hid a neat augmented reality Easter egg in the event announcement that uses Apple’s ARKit to turn the swirling Apple logo into a floating image of the ... more - theverge

Minecraft is coming to PlayStation VR as a free upgrade later this month

Minecraft is getting a free upgrade making the game playable in PlayStation VR later this month, developer Mojang Studios announced in a blog post today. Fans have been asking for PSVR Minecraft for a while now. Although the ever-popular game is already ... more - theverge

Facebook wants its AR glasses to give wearers superhearing

Facebook A new Facebook experiment shows how sound could play a major role in augmented reality. Chief scientist Michael Abrash and his team at FRL Research (formerly Facebook Reality Labs) released details today about what the team calls “perceptual ... more - theverge

Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit is a Switch racer that uses RC cars

During a surprise announcement today, Nintendo revealed the latest Mario Kart — and it’s an unexpected one. Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit is a racing game, but one where players use their Switch to drive remote-controlled cars. The cars, along with a ... more - theverge

Facebook’s OASIS-style VR playground Horizon enters public beta

Did you forget that Facebook was building the OASIS? The company has been working on its multiplayer virtual reality social space, Horizon, for a while now, which is comparable in concept if not scope to the fantastical VR world of Ready Player One. ... more - theverge

League of Legends’ virtual K-pop group K/DA is back with a new song

In 2018, the League of Legends World Championship opened in stunning fashion, thanks to an augmented reality concert from a virtual K-pop group called K/DA. The video for the virtual group’s first single, “Pop/Stars,” currently has more than 360 million ... more - theverge

The Witcher is getting a monster-hunting AR spinoff for mobile

You might not have Henry Cavill’s arms, but you can still pretend to be a witcher thanks to a new mobile game. Today, developer CD Projekt Red announced The Witcher: Monster Slayer , an augmented reality game for iOS and Android that has players doing ... more - theverge

Apple TV Plus is reportedly getting augmented reality companion content

Apple is planning to add augmented reality content as a companion to its TV Plus streaming service next year, according to a new report from Bloomberg . The AR content could be characters or objects from the show itself, which would then be overlaid ... more - theverge

Oculus Connect is now ‘Facebook Connect,’ and it’s happening September 16th

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook’s annual Oculus Connect conference will be held online-only on September 16th — and it’s being rebranded as Facebook Connect, part of the social giant’s gradual assimilation of its virtual reality ... more - theverge

Vader Immortal, a former Oculus exclusive, is available now on PlayStation VR

Vader Immortal is available now on PlayStation VR. The three-part series was previously an exclusive for the Oculus Quest and Rift, but has now arrived on the PlayStation for $29.99. Each episode of Vader Immortal takes about an hour to play and is narrative ... more - theverge

Google makes NASA artifacts and prehistoric crustaceans viewable in AR

Image: Google Google has made a number of prehistoric creatures and historical artifacts available to view in augmented reality in its Arts and Culture app, the company announced today. If you want to take a closer look at the ancient crustacean Cambropachycope ... more - theverge

How a designer used AI and Photoshop to bring ancient Roman emperors back to life

AI renditions of Roman emperors Augustus (left) and Maximinus Thrax (right) with their statues. | Image by Daniel Voshart Machine learning is a fantastic tool for renovating old photos and videos. So much so that it can even bring ancient statues to ... more - theverge

Facebook is making Oculus’s worst feature unavoidable

Image: Oculus VR Yesterday, Facebook infuriated the VR world, announcing plans to require a Facebook login for future VR headsets. The decision broke an early promise from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and was almost universally reviled online, with critics ... more - theverge

You’ll need a Facebook account to use future Oculus headsets

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Oculus will soon require all of its virtual reality headset users to sign up with a Facebook account. The Facebook-owned company says it will start removing support for separate Oculus accounts in October, ... more - theverge

Snapchat now has lenses specifically to be used in viral TikTok dance challenges

Snapchat Snap knows that people post videos with its augmented reality lenses to multiple platforms, and today, it’s launching lenses specifically to be used on TikTok. The company is partnering with four TikTok stars, including Jalaiah Harmon, who created ... more - theverge

Nreal’s augmented reality glasses are shipping this month in Korea

Nreal The Nreal Light mixed reality glasses are shipping in Korea alongside Samsung’s newly announced Galaxy Note 20. LG Uplus will sell the glasses as a standalone device for 699,000KRW (around $586), and it’s bundling them with the Galaxy Note 20 or ... more - theverge

PlayStation 5 will support PS4 controllers, but only for playing PS4 games

Image: Sony Sony is confirming today that its existing PS4 controller will not work with PS5 games. “We believe that PS5 games should take advantage of the new capabilities and features we’re bringing to the platform, including the features of DualSense ... more - theverge

July was a big month for VR games

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge 2020 has seen renewed interest in VR, and it’s not just because of the pandemic. There have been tentpole releases like Half-Life: Alyx , and the Oculus Quest continues to grow in popularity with a rumored ... more - theverge

Form’s smart goggles now work with GPS smartwatches to track open-water swims

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Form is releasing an update today for its smart augmented reality swim goggles that enable them to pair over Bluetooth to selected GPS smartwatches, allowing users to track their swims in real time in open water, ... more - theverge

Google adds creepy crawlies to its AR search results

If you’ve ever wanted to invite giant beetles or hornets into your living room without fear, Google has got you covered. The search giant is adding 23 creepy crawlies to its growing roster of augmented reality search results that also include dinosaurs, ... more - theverge

Virgin Galactic unveils the interior cabin of its tourist spaceplane

An artistic rendering of the interior cabin of VSS Unity. | Image: Virgin Galactic I was standing inside Virgin Galactic’s tourist spaceplane with three translucent green heads floating in front of me. One of the heads was explaining how the white-and-teal ... more - theverge

A new Oculus Quest has seemingly leaked from every angle, and it might launch soon

Image: WalkingCat on Twitter Earlier this week, we got our first look at what appeared to be a new Oculus Quest virtual reality headset thanks to an apparent marketing image shared on Twitter. Since then, more images — including ones of the device in ... more - theverge

Tetris Effect: Connected is an Xbox-exclusive multiplayer expansion

Image: Enhance Games The excellent Tetris Effect , a mesmerizing audio-visual spin on the classic puzzle game, is getting a full multiplayer expansion this fall called Tetris Effect: Connected , which is releasing as a timed exclusive on PC (on the Microsoft ... more - theverge

New Oculus Quest headset image seemingly leaked on Twitter

WalkingCat A picture of a new Oculus Quest virtual reality headset has seemingly leaked online. The image was posted by Twitter user WalkingCat, who has produced credible leaks in the past. It shows a headset very similar to the existing Oculus Quest, ... more - theverge

OnePlus says the Nord will come with Google Messages and Phone pre-installed

Image: OnePlus Ahead of its debut on July 21st OnePlus released an Instagram video indicating its Nord phone will come with Google’s Messages and Phone apps installed instead of its own SMS and dialer, 9to5Google reported. The device also will have Google’s ... more - theverge

PlayStation 5 pack-in Astro’s Playroom is a DualSense controller demo

Every PlayStation 5 console will include a pack-in copy of Astro’s Playroom , a lighthearted platforming game based on the Astro Bot Rescue Mission PS VR game. But a new gameplay demo from Geoff Keighley shows off the game’s real purpose: to introduce ... more - theverge

Sony reportedly boosts PS5 production by 50 percent

Sony is ordering at least 50 percent more PlayStation 5 consoles than it had originally planned to ship this year, according to reports in the Japanese press. While the company was expecting to produce around six million consoles in 2020, Nikkei says ... more - theverge

Peacock’s interface aims to recreate the feeling of live TV, but it comes up short

Every new streaming service is looking for standout features to differentiate themselves from the competition, and Peacock’s features try to combine three different types of experiences in one app: a traditional streaming interface, a curation of small, ... more - theverge

OnePlus teases first pair of true wireless earbuds for July 21st reveal

OnePlus is no stranger to producing headphones (pictured), but it has yet to release a true wireless model. | Image: OnePlus OnePlus will reveal its first pair of true wireless earbuds on July 21st, the company confirmed today. The OnePlus Buds, as the ... more - theverge

Superhot creators are giving away millions of free copies of Mind Control Delete expansion

Image: Superhot Team The team behind time-bending first-person shooter Superhot has a pretty good proposition: buy or have bought the first game and you get the follow-up for free. Called Superhot: Mind Control Delete , the standalone expansion has been ... more - theverge