A new augmented reality system splits the difference, by precisely guiding the hands of human carpenters. Developed by Andrea Settimi and colleagues at Switzerland's EPFL university, the open-source ...

A system developed at Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) uses augmented reality (AR) to help make extremely precise timber cuts without having to measure or mark up beams.

Augmented reality technology did not, it turns out, light the touch paper on a booming new industry. What we got instead were a few cute applications on smartphones and devices like Microsoft's ...

Daniel Samuel built a construction company after learning the trade at age 14 and created Snapchat AR lenses that generated ...