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Glasses with built-in displays and/or cameras already exist, which means that pairs with augmented reality functions are just one step away.
Sure, that one step might not be the smallest in history, but it's still just one step. Google has already introduced its idea for taking it.
Dubbed Project Glass, it h... |
14 May 2012
04:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has been long touting the great possibilities that its Kinect sensor could provide, especially when combined with the Kinect for Windows SDK and a great idea. Two recent projects have come to light to demonstrate that things are indeed so. The two projects, a Microsoft MirageTable and the Augmented Realit... |
11 May 2012
09:27 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is ramping up to offer some more appealing application to its Windows Phone users, the latest of them being Nokia City Lens. Released in a beta version, the mobile application is meant to provide users with an augmented reality interface to find places in cities they do not yet know... |
8 May 2012
08:28 GMT |
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It's one thing to play in a normal sandbox and other to have one that lets you build things on a massive scale without any chance of getting sand and water all over you.
Kids, of course, love to play in sandboxes anyway. Some even prefer being dirty to cleanliness, for some obscure reason. Maybe they feel more... |
7 May 2012
15:11 GMT |
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We could very well say that we saved the best for last today, although we'll leave it to you to decide if Google's newest pet project is really more interesting than the AMD and Intel APU/CPU updates. What we have here is a video in which Google reveals Project Glass, its idea for augmented reality glasse... |
6 April 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Nokia brought its Windows Phone-powered Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 smartphones to the market in Australia several weeks ago, and the company is hard at work with marketing their capabilities.
And since the greatest marketing campaigns are those who run on the street, Nokia decided to take a similar approach too.
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26 March 2012
10:13 GMT |
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“Immersion” is something companies like to drone on when advertising a new monitor or graphics card, or whatever else. Basically, “immersion” has come to mean that sensation of being inside a game or movie while playing/watching it. A certain gamer with some knowledge in electronics and/or g... |
19 March 2012
11:42 GMT |
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Sony has made its latest Android-based flagship device, the Xperia S, available for purchase in the UK, and it also kicked off the marketing campaign for the handset. The smartphone is now available through various wireless carriers and retailers in the country, and it appears that Sony wants to make sure it picks... |
16 March 2012
05:47 GMT |
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While Google is becoming more and more boring on one front, the one led by Larry Page, meaning most of Google's user-facing products, it is becoming a lot more interesting on another, the one led by Sergey Brin, Google X.
Not much is known about the secret labs/think tank that Brin has created to house shot for... |
22 February 2012
05:30 GMT |
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Reality Fighters on the PlayStation Vita is a mix between a classic fighting game, an augmented reality experience and a virtual doll management game and only the first part of the experience is solid enough to keep gamers engaged in the long term.
Reality Fighters was created by Novarama, a Spain based studio tha... |
21 February 2012
10:19 GMT |
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Scientists with the European Space Agency (ESA) announce the development of an augmented reality (AU) device for astronauts. This piece of equipment will help people in space diagnose any potential problems with their crew members, as well as enable them to perform basic surgeries.
AU devices were already created fo... |
6 February 2012
04:50 GMT |
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The developers at Genius Sonority, who are well known for their work on Nintendo-made handheld devices, have announced that they plan to launch a new 3DS title that will use the much-touted Augmented Reality features of the device.
The game is called Radio Wave People and will challenge the player to collect a numbe... |
2 February 2012
13:01 GMT |
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General Motors Research and Development (GM) challenged researchers and students from the FUTURE LAB at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel to come up with some way of making car rides more enjoyable for passengers.
As any rules and regulations book will clearly spell out, car drivers should have their eye ... |
19 January 2012
04:03 GMT |
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Sony has just deployed a brand new video that shows off one of the Augmented Reality mini-games that will be bundled with the PlayStation Vita, in the form of Table Football (or Table Soccer, as it will be known in the U.S.).The PlayStation Vita is getting ready for its global release at the end of February and Sony ... |
12 January 2012
05:22 GMT |
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Mobile phones powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system can now provide users with the possibility to enjoy augmented reality on the go via the Wikitude browser. The application has been voted the "Best Augmented Reality browser" for three years in a raw, namely in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Through usi... |
10 January 2012
15:11 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita has been launched in Japan for close to one full week and the developers at Sony working on the hardware and the software for the device are already looking to the future, with the Augmented Reality features of the device one possible focus.Shuhei Yoshida, who is a vice president at Sony Computer... |
21 December 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Nokia’s augmented reality browser Live View has just been released for the company’s N9 smartphone, which is powered by the MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan operating system.
The application was previously available only for the company’s Symbian smartphones, but Nokia decided to push it to more users.
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15 December 2011
14:01 GMT |
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One of the most popular navigation applications, ROUTE 66 is now available as a free download from Android Market. The developer offers users a free 30-day Worldwide Trial license comprising Navigation and free access to premium services, including Traffic information and Speed cameras. However, the promotional ... |
24 November 2011
21:01 GMT |
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Teams working at the University of Washington in the United States and at the Aalto University in Finland have managed to create and perform the first tests with a new contact lens that can receive and display a one pixel image directly on its own surface.The new technology can be used, if it proves to be stable and ... |
24 November 2011
08:23 GMT |
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PBS KIDS has announced the launch of an augmented reality app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad called FETCH! Lunch Rush. The free app uses the iDevices’ cameras to overlay software graphics on top of the physical environment around you.The goal of the app, according to PBS, was to provide a tool that makes using... |
15 November 2011
16:01 GMT |
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In addition to announcing new handsets running under Microsoft's Windows Phone platform and the availability of a series of applications and services for them, Nokia also announced updated apps for Symbian phones, and the Nokia Live View browser was one of them.
The application comes with a nice range of new f... |
27 October 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Fujifilm has recently announced the introduction of its most advanced compact digital camera to date, the FinePix F600EXR, which comes with a wide series of features including a 16MP sensor, a built-in GPS with an augmented reality app and a 15x wide-angle optical zoom lens now.The FinePix F600 EXR builds on the spec... |
12 August 2011
10:41 GMT |
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One of world's first AR (Augmented Reality) applications for Android devices, Wikitude Drive has just been introduced in U.S.A., Canada and Mexico.
The multi-awarded application was initially launched in Europe earlier this year, but now it is set to revolutionize how North Americans navigate.
Wikitude Dri... |
19 July 2011
12:31 GMT |
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A new application is now out of the Nokia Beta Labs, the Nokia Live View augmented reality browser, which comes with support for Symbian^3-based handsets like the Nokia C7, Nokia E7 and Nokia N8.
Still an experimental application, the new browser is meant to offer users a new way for discovering various places a... |
12 July 2011
04:55 GMT |
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Along with an iPad HD model in 2011 and a new iPad 3 flavor next year, Cupertino, California-based Apple might also bring to the market a special iPad model that would sport Augmented Reality capabilities.
Recent filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office shows that the company is considering the... |
8 July 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer Sony has announced its new handheld, officially known at the moment as the NPG and possibly called Vita for launch, back in January of this year but the company says that the E3 reveal for the device will show how it can dominate the handheld market in the long term.Speaking to EDGE abou... |
3 June 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Mango, the latest flavor of Windows Phone, Microsoft's own mobile operating system, is finally official, with a great deal of new features included into the mix, and with brand new experience in store for all of its users. Most of the features the new platform release would arrive on devices with have been alre... |
24 May 2011
10:27 GMT |
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Video game company Nintendo has announced that more video games using the Augmented Reality abilities of the newly launched Nintendo 3DS handheld will be released, developed both internally at the Japanese company and by third parties.
Speaking to the magazine, Nintendo Power Hideki Konno, who is cited as being th... |
4 May 2011
09:31 GMT |
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It looks like Canadian customers are in for a nice surprise as Virgin Mobile plans carry the newly announced BlackBlerry Bold 9900. The operator made the announcement via Twitter and added that further details will be revealed in the near future: “phone news! we’ll be adding the new @blackberry bold 990... |
3 May 2011
04:12 GMT |
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NAVIGON AG has updated its entire range of MobileNavigator apps to include a Reality Scanner feature that uses augmented reality to help find points of interest close-by. Version 1.8 also includes safety camera alerts as an In App Purchase, as well as a new NAVTEQ map, and an at-a-glance traffic gage.
MobileNaviga... |
14 April 2011
08:42 GMT |
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Total Immersion is leveraging the new hardware in Apple’s iPad 2 with AR Magic Mirror, an augmented reality application that allows people to “try on” outfits, hairstyles, and accessories.
Total Immersion is an expert in augmented reality.
The company blends the virtual world and the real worl... |
15 March 2011
08:42 GMT |
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Total Immersion has announced the introduction of the first augmented reality m-Commerce application for the iPhone 4. Using an iPhone 4 or a fourth generation iPod touch, the app identifies a face and applies virtual glasses, allowing the user to move about, and see how the glasses fit.
According to the makers of... |
23 February 2011
12:31 GMT |
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When the Nintendo 3DS launches, on February 26 in Japan and about one month later in Europe and the United States, one of the most intriguing and little talked about features will be six augmented reality cards which will allow players to engage in gaming experiences which blend the virtual and the real life.
An a... |
23 February 2011
04:21 GMT |
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Although fishing is one of the sports (or past-time activities) that typically requires people to actually leave their homes, it seems that Japanese company Takara Tomy has come up with a device that will enable fishermen to engage in some sort of “augmented reality” fishing, namely the Virtual Masters Re... |
3 February 2011
08:07 GMT |
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The next flavor of Google's mobile operating system, namely Android 3.0 Honeycomb, is expected to come to the market with some pretty interesting changes when compared to the existing flavors of the platform.Some of these enhancements are only rumored for the time being, but there are great chances that others ... |
16 December 2010
11:25 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7, the latest mobile operating system that Redmond-based software giant Microsoft brought to the market only several weeks ago, can allow developers to run unauthorized code, and the first application that can take advantage of these capabilities was showcased not too long ago.Not only does the said so... |
22 November 2010
06:52 GMT |
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Qualcomm recently announced the release of of its Augmented Reality Software Development Kit (SDK) for Android smartphones, which will enable developers to create new generation of augmented reality experiences. The new applications that can be created with the help of the new SDK will deliver interactive 3D experien... |
5 October 2010
08:55 GMT |
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Recently, Qualcomm announced officially its plans to bring to the market an augmented reality platform and software development kit (SDK) to provide the base for a new gen of augmented reality applications. Initially, the solution should become available for handsets based on Google's Android operating system, ... |
2 July 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Nokia Point & Find, the first mobile augmented reality browser on S60 devices, has just been updated. The solution offers users the possibility to discover various useful and relevant information and services by simply pointing the camera on their Nokia handsets at objects around them. One can use the app to get inf... |
28 April 2010
05:32 GMT |
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Photosynth, a Microsoft technology that lets end users create synths, 3D navigable spaces by stitching together 2D images, will be an integral part of the company’s vision of augmented reality. The software giant unveiled recently its concept of spatial exploration, courtesy of architect Blaise Agüera y Ar... |
19 March 2010
11:17 GMT |
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The hologram, technically known as augmented reality, has been nothing but a dream until a few years ago, when a group of developers led by Philip Lamb developed a C-powered library (ARToolKit) able to handle dynamic viewpoints and then redraw a 3D object accordingly. Less than a week ago, on February 24, German .NET... |
2 March 2010
06:20 GMT |
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One of the technologies that is becoming increasingly popular on mobile phone today is Augmented Reality (AR), this is something that we all know. However, it seems that behind the impressive user experience the technology can deliver, there are some areas that are not as bright and sunny as one might think, but whi... |
2 February 2010
11:24 GMT |
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The future, or at least glimpses of it, is here. Well, at least in terms of military technology, which always seems to come first. According to the most recent projects set forth by various companies and research agencies, the combatants of tomorrow will be a totally different breed of fighting machines, endowed with... |
2 February 2010
10:04 GMT |
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Augmented reality (AR) is one area that is expected to grow a lot during the following few years, a series of previous reports have showed already, and now Juniper Research provides a series of estimated figures for the area. According to the research firm, the number of mobile downloads that include augmented reali... |
5 January 2010
10:22 GMT |
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The social discovery network Brightkite has announced today the launch of the first augmented reality advertising solution on the US market. The augmented reality service has been available for its users ever since August, via a partnership with Layar, and now it has been brought to a brand new level, offering them ... |
21 December 2009
10:21 GMT |
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Layar has released a new version of its augmented reality browser, and has also included a wide range of new features inside it, so as to enable the creation of new AR experiences to developers. According to the company, the new version of their browser offers those that have basic web development skills the possibi... |
4 December 2009
06:06 GMT |
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The market for mobile augmented-reality (AR) services is expected to see a great increase during the following few years, according to a recent report from Juniper Research. The research firm notes that the services are to reach $732 million by 2014, as the revenues will be generated by paid-for application downloads... |
25 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Columbia University experts have just recently finished developing a new Augmented Reality (AR) system that allows mechanics to finish complex repairs for the machines they are charged with fixing in half the time they would need otherwise. Imagine a world in which, rather than reading an extensive manual, engineers ... |
26 October 2009
05:59 GMT |
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When most people say augmented reality, they immediately think about video games, where this system could make the gaming experiences much more rich. Television and movies jump to mind immediately afterwards, but researchers are now imaging a use for AR that surpasses all that. They argue that a large number of car c... |
24 October 2009
05:44 GMT |
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Layar announced on Tuesday that it made new enhancements to its augmented reality browser through the addition of 3D capabilities to the platform. According to the company, the new 3D features will enable developers to place 3D text when tagging real-life objects, as well as 3D objects in real-world space, while also... |
23 September 2009
10:23 GMT |
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