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Merged VR: Augmented Reality Cubed

There is considerable development activity at the high end of hardware and content creation for virtual reality and augmented reality, as well as such AR aliases as mixed reality, extended reality and others.

Most industry investment is aimed at leading-edge gaming and industrial application development. However, the low-end of the market is also worth looking at, to see how people and institutions without big budgets -- consumers and education -- might adopt these technologies sooner, rather than waiting years for all the advancements to trickle down to lower price points.

An example of AR done on a more human-friendly scale is Merge VR. Its founders seem to have taken the hint from The Graduate ("One word: plastics"), added software and a bit of creativity, and then applied it to AR.

Aldi is adding some high tech products to its range – with the latest additions being a 3D printer and a 4K TV.

The budget supermarket, known for its high quality, low cost groceries, and unpredictable middle aisle bargains, is getting some online exclusive bargains.

Soon Aldi shoppers will be able to pick up a 3D printer on the website – and it costs less than £300.

The printer prints layers of Fused Filament Fabrication to create physical objects that users can design themselves, or download design schematics from the internet.

Spectacles at a hipster pop-up store in London.They were supposed to change the snapping game forever, and maybe they did, but Snap's Spectacles caused a staggering $40 million loss on unsold devices to the company.
To try to get rid of some of those Spectacles — which, according to reports, are sitting in a warehouse in China by the hundreds of thousands — Snap has announced it will sell them in a pop-up shop in east London.

Boxpark Shoreditch, a hipster hotspot in the UK, will host a dedicated store for the Snap spectacles starting Saturday, 11 November, "just in time for Christmas and the winter sport season," a press release said.

The store will be an interactive space where people can try out the Spectacles, and hopefully buy them.

Snap said the $40 million loss was “primarily related to excess inventory reserves and inventory purchase commitment cancellation charges.”