Report: Valve’s former augmented reality system is no more

[ArseTechnica]

[url]https://arstechnica.com/?p=1124747[/url]

[Karmah]

First I've ever heard of it

[Miya]

basically valve was R&D'ing AR and VR at the same time.

VR suceeded, so they let go everyone in the AR section and valve let them keep all the AR tech.

[Whomobile]

Thats a shame, I think AR has more interesting applications then VR imo.

[Miya]

[QUOTE=Whomobile;52405629]Thats a shame, I think AR has more interesting applications then VR imo.[/QUOTE]

Apple is releasing a ARKit in the new iOS update while Google is doing Project Tango

example of iOS ARkit:
[video]https://youtu.be/z7DYC_zbZCM[/video]

[Lazore]

[QUOTE=Whomobile;52405629]Thats a shame, I think AR has more interesting applications then VR imo.[/QUOTE]

AR is horrible for entertainment, only useful for practical stuff. So far.