Keepmoat, a house building company based in the United Kingdom who provides private homes for sale, has developed a new AR app to help potential new home buyers see what modern, urban living will be like at a Keepmoat development in Glasgow.

Researchers at the LEARNER project have created a mixed reality learning environment, which uses exoskeletons and AR to train and assist emergency service workers and improve their safety and performance by enhancing their physical and cognitive abilities. 

To help celebrate the global launch of its pop-ups, Burberry has partnered with Snapchat to showcase an in store gamification experience. Snapchat users simply scan the Snapcode embedded in the pop-ups, and are transported into the world of Burberry’s Animal Kingdom and see the animals around them come to life. Users can tap on the toucans to unlock offers and rewards.

Amazon Prime Video is giving fans of its dark superhero series The Boys, an opportunity to be part of the team and blast away villains with the laser beam eyes of a baby in its new AR game app.

Facebook has partnered with Warner Music to create an Augmented Reality effect prior to the launch of David Guetta and Sia’s new single, Let’s Love. 

In this week's weekly round up of Augmented Reality news, we look at the new Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit game which uses AR on the Nintendo Switch, the SIT introducing AR into their teaching to train nurses to care for patients with COVID-19, as well as Samsung’s Life Unstoppable virtual event which uses AR to showcase products to their consumers. All of this and more. Here's what happened, this week in AR.

While most fans can’t get to a game at the moment, the Australian Football League (AFL) have deployed augmented reality into the Official AFL Live App to create an innovative way to both enhance the app and provide an interactive experience for their fans to enjoy. 

The most trusted provider of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) management software, Cority, has recently announced a partnership with Interaptix, provider of augmented reality solutions for the industrial workforce, to strengthen worker safety by providing real-time, contextually relevant health, safety, and environmental information to enable rapid and effective decision-making to reduce risk.