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Design your garden before you grow it with new AR app Prelimb Prelimb

Channel your inner Alan Titchmarsh and see what your garden will look like in years to come, using augmented reality app Prelimb that lets you ‘know before you grow’.

Here’s what using a HoloLens will really be like TechCrunch

Microsoft have created a video giving people insight into what wearing their augmented reality helmet the HoloLens will really feel like.

7 factors that will make AR and VR worth $150bn Venture Beat

To live up to its promises, AR and VR must be all about mobility, vision, immersion, usability, flexibility, wearability and affordability.

Is this the smartest bedside lamp in the world? PSFK

Personalised sounds, therapeutic light patterns, wireless device charging, weather reports and speech control: the Luzi might mean you never actually want to leave your bed.

How to encourage more women into tech Medium

Christina Li spent one spring break teaching girls to code, then set up her web development camp Hello, World. Here she explains why it’s crucial more women do the same.