Before Google has its own pair of augmented reality glasses, it’ll need AR to work everywhere. World-spanning AR that blankets the real world using map data has been a goal for several companies ...

Google’s AR-enabled Maps app was first teased at last year’s I/O, introducing a fox that helped you find your way when you held up your phone to look at the world. Google Maps’ AR walking navigation ...

Niantic Inc., the maker of Pokemon Go and the upcoming Harry Potter: Wizards Unite game, announced plans to create a worldwide 3D map, with players of their games playing a large role. In an interview ...

Google just reinvented how we navigate our way around unfamiliar places. It's called Google Maps AR and it's solves all sorts of problems we currently experience when travelling with a GPS. You key in ...

Recent job listings on Apple’s hiring page suggest the company is considering giving Apple Maps an AR overhaul. The move would keep pace with Google, which showed off an AR mapping feature for Google ...

Today we've got a bit of a demo of Google Maps AR through a friend of ours who happens to be a Google Maps Local Guides level 5+ user. That's the level at which Google Maps now allows the augmented ...

Google I/O is ostensibly a developer conference, but the Mountain View company always manages to sneak in a product announcement or two. This morning during the kickoff keynote, Google announced that ...

VR and AR content creator Lucas Rizzotto has made a working version of the Marauder’s Map from Harry Potter using mobile AR. The video is part of his Lucas Builds the Future series, where each video ...