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This year has brought many challenges to visual artists. How to reach the audience when galleries are closed, and people won't leave their homes?

The global lockdown has accelerated the development and adoption of technology. Not only in communication but also in the entertainment and arts field. Immersive technologies have made it possible for people everywhere to interact with their favorite artists, even while physically apart. 

Feels like the whole year has been a continuous bad-luck-day. Actually, only today, it's Friday the 13th in 2020. But, here we have some positive AR news to share!

This week brings us an AR DJ set from David Guetta, holographic sports broadcasts, an XR app for on-set direction, an AR smoke sculpture, Nreal's AR glasses set to launch in Japan, and Cadillac joining the AR display club. That's quite a lot, so let's dive in!

The infamous year of 2020 has changed almost everything in our lives - at least the cultural aspect. Galleries and museums are struggling with the loss of audience and visual artists from not displaying their work. 

Today, we're at the dawn of something new, as a visual artist Jani Leinonen is one of the first in the frontline to try out a novel way of displaying art.

This week's augmented reality insights bring us both tech and entertainment. AR indeed goes many ways and works in many applications!

Amazon launches a Halloween AR experience so you can become a pumpkin yourself, Apple takes another step towards the future of AR, and virtual voguing and razzle-dazzle.

We rarely get an opportunity to explore the mysteries of ancient Egypt. Even more rarely, we can immerse ourselves in them. Today we can.

Amos Rex is a museum where the past, the present, and the future meet. In 2020 the museum exhibits the foundation of our society: the glory of Egypt. A never-before-seen experience, a virtual ancient tomb, sends visitors off on a journey thousands of years back in time.

AR looks to the future and travels to the past this week! AR goggles for dogs and an app to turn yourself into a painting or check how you'd look with an ancient Egyptian necklace on you.

And, as we speak of ancient Egypt, a little tip for some weekend fun made possible with augmented reality.

For over a decade, Arabia Street Festival has brought music, food, and art to the streets of the Arabia area in Helsinki, Finland. The annual festival celebrates communality and sustainability, and street art has been in its focus since the beginning. 

13th of its kind, the festival organized on the 5th of September 2020 went online for the first time ever. In addition to the online program, the festival audience could, and still can, walk around the Arabia area to explore the gorgeous public art. This year, nine street art pieces enhanced with augmented reality decorate the streets and buildings.

Last week Mario Kart, this week PAC-MAN! Our favorite games from the past are coming to reality.

Also, the XR field is getting the much-needed privacy framework, a new set of AR glasses arises, and the world's first AR-built motorcycle.

For a Finnish graphic artist Seela Petra, public art means action for collective well-being. Through art, stories about changes in nature, wild youth, child's play, love, and aging become alive.

Seela Petra's artwork One Day is a collection of characters and scenes inspired by the Tapiola area in Espoo, Finland. The piece was created in 2019 as a part of Tapiola's new bicycle parking at the AINOA shopping center, in collaboration with Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA. Now, the artwork comes alive with augmented reality.

Summer is not over if there AR margaritas. And there are!

Copy & paste margaritas, art preservation, and classic literature gamified, all possible with augmented reality! Read on to find out more.