When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Michael D. Shaw is a biochemist and freelance writer. A graduate of the University of California, ...

Augmented reality, combining real world views and digital information, is not particularly new, but it is still considered in its infancy. The technology has been used in a variety of ways, from GPS ...

The University of Texas at San Antonio has more than 2 million titles in its library system, and lately it’s been building a collection that most students—and future teachers—might not even know ...

We’ve read old-fashioned printed books, e-books, and then audiobooks. Now, another book format, a-books, is making the news. A-books, short for augmented reality books, are soon to enter the ...

Christmas has become awfully technical in the last decade or so. But if you’ve already caved and bought your child a smartphone and iPad or anything else with a webcam on it, you might consider buying ...

We have had e-books for a while now and maybe it’s time to get started with something called a-books. No, it’s not short for audiobooks but it stands for augmented reality books. As The Guardian ...

Alice Asevedo works for Edgewood Independent School District. Laura Johansen homeschools an elementary-aged child. Both women are blown away by this training on Augmented-Reality books. AR books use ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A local woman is bringing books to life using augmented reality to help children with speech delays and autism learn. Angelique Marshall is the author of "Angels Awesome ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Imagine reading a ...

Virtual reality (VR) has a long history, with many false starts and retrenchments, from the Nintendo Power Glove to Second Life to Magic Leap. Augmented reality (AR) actually goes even further back, ...

A German company called Metaio is developing a new system that turns regular old books into reality-augmented 3D objects, with models of things like globes sprouting off of the pages. All you need to ...

Virtual keyboards are a frequent source of frustration for augmented reality (AR) users. The virtual surfaces are slow and ...