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Ikea launches an improved version of its AR app for people to design whole rooms. 

Also, Amazon opens a salon with augmented reality hair color try-ons, and Samsung is turning the world into an AR canvas.

Augmented reality helps in preserving history and enables you to create your own trip down the memory-lane.

Also, a new player enters the AR glasses game, and Audi adds AR to its windshields.

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Find you lost items easily with AR!

Samsung is releasing a device to help people find their lost items with augmented navigation. Also, musicians promote their new music and themselves in AR, and Google rolls out a range of XR experiments.

Is there a new player coming in the AR smart glasses game? Maybe, and it might be Niantic.

Google's Live View AR navigation spreads to malls and airports, Snap's Spectacles are getting displays for true AR experience, and Niantic rolls out another AR game.

The most valuable part of Art is that it creates an emotional connection between past experiences or future hopes and the environment and its people. That connection is difficult to transform into virtual, but immersive technologies might change things.

Also, Nintendo and Samsung are making moves to put AR in the hands of the vast audience.

Looking Glass teams up with Reggie Watts to make augmented reality art holdable.

Also, Facebook is working on a wristband to interact with and control the digital world, and an arcade classic Space Invaders is making a come-back as an AR mobile game.

Go on an augmented Easter egg hunt with Cadbury!

Also, Google released an interactive electronic music exhibition for educational and entertainment purposes and adds depth support for dual cameras to ARCore.

If you still have some cleaning energy left from the lockdown, Ikea comes to the rescue! The furniture company launched an AR game on Snapchat, where the users can "escape" by decluttering a room.

Also, Microsoft presents its Mesh service with Niantic and an XR Pokémon GO demo, and Varjo becomes a Unity Verified Solution Partner.

The rover Perseverance touched the surface of Mars, and so can you - in AR. And take a selfie with it.

National Geographic and Bacardi launch epic AR filters for social media, a new device for gesture control enters the game, and hints of upcoming AR glasses unveil.

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What are the XR industry's big players up to?

Google launches toolbox for depth sensors and LiDAR, Apple makes a partnership to produce micro OLED displays, and Unity collaborates with Volvo for open-source car design models.

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