Have you ever seen a chair float across the living room? Placed an imaginary carpet on your floor? Seen your entire dream room through the screen of a tablet or phone?Now through the new and innovative AR technology, a whole room can be imagined into existence without moving a single piece of furniture. Through AR, an object can be projected onto screen via a camera or video, giving a live demonstration of what the furniture looks like and how it fits in a room.

Rokid, a China based AR glasses manufacturer, announced the second generation of their Rokid Glass model in January. In a recent press release, Rokid shared that the company had finished mass production and was in the preparations for shipping globally. 

The explosive growth of mobile AR is completely attributable to smartphones and tablets. Mobile AR has contributed enormously to the way we can now experience games, art and entertainment which can be accessed from remote places to urban landscapes.

A crowd of medical students stumbling after a Consultant on a ward round has been a common sight in hospitals for decades now; but perhaps not for much longer. A London university has utilised AR to allow students to take part in a ward round from their own home.

A new AR app, Hipster Bait, plans to recreate the classic era of discovering music and exposing the user to new rock n’ roll artists and bands through a location based AR experience, similar to Pokémon GO.

Punchdrunk and Niantic are planning how to turn people into “the hero of their own living game.”

A new augmented reality adventure has been created by Aardman that will allow fans to interact with life size characters in their own homes.