Mobile operator Jio Platforms, in which Facebook and Google previously invested $ 20 billion, has taken up gaming investments. The Indian company was one of the sponsors of the California startup Krikey, which develops mobile AR games.

In 2019, more than $4.1 billion was invested in augmented and virtual reality projects. This is less than in 2018.

Mojo Vision company will introduce contact lenses with augmented reality support in the future. $108 million has already been invested in the project.

Sensor Tower has published the October top of the most profitable and downloadable AR games on iOS. App2Top found out how much the titles listed in it earn.

Investments in AR/VR games have come to naught. The sad situation of virtual and augmented reality games by the 4th quarter of the year is demonstrated by the report of Digi-Capital.

In several American cities, it became possible to order the first Magic Leap augmented reality glasses, in which investors invested $ 2.3 billion.

The segment of companies engaged in augmented reality projects expanded by 50% in the first half of 2018, according to the investment fund The Venture Reality Fund.

According to the analytical company SuperData, the segment of augmented reality applications in the second quarter of 2018 developed slowly, users and developers began to lose interest in it. However, analysts are confident that this drop is temporary, and the situation will change before the end of the year.

On June 4, Apple opened the annual conference for developers – WWDC 2018. During the first day, a solemn presentation with software announcements took place. One of the main events was the ARKit 2 show. We decided to coincide with this announcement with a conversation with Andrey Ivashentsev about the present and future of AR.

Apple has introduced an updated augmented reality platform ARKit 2, which will appear in the latest version of the iOS 12 mobile operating system. Among other features in ARKit 2, support for multiplayer in AR games is announced.

6 months have passed since the release of the ARKit augmented reality application platform for iOS. During this time, ARKit-enabled programs have been downloaded more than 13 million times, according to the Sensor Tower analytical company.

The analytical company SuperData presented a forecast of the development of the virtual and augmented reality industry in the next 3 years. According to him, by 2021, VR games will generate $3.3 billion. Revenues of virtual reality titles for 2017 amounted to $306 million.

Google has released the final version of the ARCore devkit, designed for the development of augmented reality applications.

Niantic Studio, in partnership with the media company Warner Brothers, is developing a mobile augmented reality game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite based on the “Harry Potter” franchise.

Apple is working on an augmented reality headset that could be ready by 2020, according to business publication Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the company’s plans.

The AR Stack puzzle from Ketchapp studio became the first augmented reality game to take the top spot in the category of shareware games of the App Store.

Apple has added two separate categories for augmented reality games and applications to the App Store.

The game “My Country” has appeared in the App Store. One of the first builders and, in general, projects focused on the game exclusively within the framework of augmented reality.

Magic Leap is looking for $500 million in investments to accelerate the release of augmented reality headsets. These investments will raise the startup’s value to $6 billion.