This startup’s mixed reality glasses offer a glimpse at the future — but AR is still in its infancy
It’s been three years since the unveiling of Microsoft’s HoloLens, and nearly five years since the release of the ill-fated Google Glass, but true augmented reality hardware remains an elusive concept. In 2018, and especially here in Las Vegas for the annual CES gadget expo, it’s evident that AR is only just now starting to pick up the same amount of steam on the hardware end that helped push its virtual reality counterpart into the limelight, during that multi-year lead up to the launch of the Oculus Rift.
Amid the new AR frenzy — which is being pushed along, thanks to powerful smartphone platforms like Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore — all sorts of new startups are pushing a vision of consumer AR that’s tenuously tied to a…
