EghtesadOnline: Intel Corp. has closed its Recon brand of augmented-reality goggles for sporting and industrial applications, according to people familiar with the decision.

EghtesadOnline: Apple Inc. packed its $1,000 iPhone with augmented reality features, betting the nascent technology will persuade consumers to pay premium prices for its products even as cheaper alternatives abound.

EghtesadOnline: Magic Leap Inc., a secretive augmented reality startup with a massive funding warchest, lost its top marketing executive before the company has even brought its first product to market.

EghtesadOnline: Even though Google reportedly scrapped plans for an Oculus Rift competitor, Engadget reports that it's still working on a high-end standalone headset — one that mixes features of augmented reality and virtual reality.

EghtesadOnline: Google has had impressive augmented reality technology for years, but few ways to get millions of people using it. The company thinks it has software to fix that now.

EghtesadOnline: Apple Inc.’s HomePod speaker made headlines at the company’s annual developer conference. But for thousands of developers at the event, the conversation was abuzz with another topic: augmented reality.

EghtesadOnline: Tim Cook has talked up a lot of technologies since becoming Apple Inc.'s chief executive in 2011. Driverless cars. Artificial intelligence. Streaming television. But no technology has fired up Cook quite like augmented reality, which overlays images, video and games on the real world.

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc's Google quickened the pace of its push into virtual and augmented reality this week as its hardware partners announced new devices featuring the company’s technology at the CES electronics show in Las Vegas.