Christie's uses AR to place artwork in your surroundings using iOS app

Fine art auction house Christie's is using the power of Augmented Reality to showcase upcoming artworks and digitally project them into your homes or offices. Imagine having Leonardo Da Vinci's $450,000.000 'Salvator Mundi' hanging over your mantle, you get the idea. Christie's is enabling certain lots to be AR enabled via their iOS app and is focusing on its Asian Contemporary and Chinese Contemporary Ink collections which are included in an upcoming collections. This is a superb use of AR technology using tools like iPhones and iPads which most people already have. 

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Apple buys AR startup for $30 Million to bolster its own AR headset

Apple has bought Vrvana for $30 million. The AR development company has likely caught Apple's eye for its work on AR headsets which can help the company in its own efforts to create their AR headset. Apple is famously pushing AR as a future interface and its ARKit framework has fueled various apps used on iPhones and iPads and which will likely translate to a headset provided the right components and input mechanisms are available.

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