Apple's dive into AR could take the technology mainstream

Just a little more than a week before Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, reports have surfaced that Apple has acquired German augmented reality (AR) software company Metaio The unexpected move signals the iPhone maker may be prepping a deep dive into the world of the virtual, a turn that could dramatically increase interest in what has been, to date, a mostly niche technology See also: Microsoft demos Windows 10 apps on HoloLens, and it's stunning The first news of the acq...