Meta said it's shutting down its augmented-reality studio Spark early next year. The feature allows AR developers to make custom effects for apps like Instagram and Facebook. AR effects have become a ...

Augmented Reality (AR) can be fun technology to play with. The basic premise of AR is to overlay digital content on top of real things using something like a map, a camera, or sometimes the sky.

For the past few years, Google has pushed a particular technology for implementing augmented reality in phones. Known first as Project Tango and now as Tango, Google's AR platform used to have ...