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In the steps of Snapchat, Instagram and YouCam, another popular photo app has landed in the virtual try-on augmented reality game. On Thursday, BoxyCharm, a cosmetics subscription service, unveiled a collaboration with app developer Lightricks who bring AR filters for cosmetics to Facetune2, an app for editing selfies that are in the top 10 photo and video apps is in …

Indian startup Dimension NXG introduces augmented reality headsets to the Indian consumer market with a bold idea: focused on immersive computing in the top segment. The plan is to give a new type of AR headset to school children in remote Indian villages, from class 5 (age 10) to graduation. The education-oriented headset supplied to students, called AjnaLite, is the …

If you need to know if you are really a Hufflepuff or a Gryffindor, then it's time to get yourself an augmented reality sorting hat. The sorting hat game went live for Harry Potter fans this week within Wizarding World, a new mobile app and website launched by Harry Potters' publishing house and studio behind its movie franchise, Warner Brothers …

Augmented reality plays a key role in the evolution of adjacent technologies, such as 5G connectivity and brain-control interfaces (BCI), and the business news of the week serves up proof points for both examples. On the 5G front, Verizon's acquisition of Jaunt XR adds another AR chess piece to its 5G rollout. Elsewhere, Magic Leap, a company that AT&T has …

Change your watch face so that it fits at the moment and adjust certain faces with a different look. Here you can read how you can give your Apple Watch display your own personal touch. PCMag assesses products independently, but we can earn partner commissions by purchasing links on this page. Terms of Use If you are not fond of …

You can still use your old phone. Juan Garzon / CNET This year is full of cool new Android phones, such as the Note 10 and OnePlus 7T that leaves so much temptation to upgrade your old phone to one of the new devices. And although selling or trading your old phone is a great option to reduce the total …

Angela Lang / CNET If you ever had a Yahoo account between 2012 and 2016, you can now participate in a class action settlement to compensate you for losses. For several years, hackers were able to access Yahoo user accounts and steal private emails, calendars, and contacts in at least three separate attacks. The breaches ranged from two in 2012, …

With Minecraft Earth you can build a world on your phone with the world around you. Angela Lang / CNET Explore, collect items and find monsters in an AR world on your phone. Sounds like Pokemon Go from Niantic, right? It is not. It is Minecraft Earth, the new augmented reality app from Microsoft for iOS and Android phones. For …

The iPhone 11 and 11 Pro have many new camera functions. Óscar Gutiérrez / CNET Regardless of which Apple iPhone setup you have – the iPhone 11 iPhone 11 Pro or 11 Pro Max – their biggest upgrades are the cameras & # 39; s. All three models received an additional camera sensor on the back, bringing the total camera …

fizkes / Shutterstock Although FWIW is not the most popular piece of jargon on the internet, it routinely finds its way to Twitter messages, message boards and chat rooms. But what does FWIW mean, where does it come from and how do you use it? For what it is worth FWIW means "for what it is worth." It is an …