Tag: AUGMENTEDREALITY

Augmented reality interfaces are currently one of the hottest trends in tech, but they may be on their way to pasture, for the moment. Gesture interfaces are slowly but surely supplanting AR in tech headlines, because all the nerds want to be like Tom Cruise in 'Minority Report.' Hey, we can't argue with that. But the additional layer of interactivity that AR provides looks kind of facile compared ...

Share The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. ...

Augmented reality technology is really fantastic. Really! But, like anything else, it has potential for abuse, misuse, and simple wrongheadedness. In both Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the Dutch government has installed AR billboards intended to combat an apparently pervasive problem; public workers, in the course of their regular duties, are routinely faced with violence and aggression from ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. We're going to ...

What's the ideal tour guide through one of the largest banks in the world? A sleek and shiny red robot, of course. According to Engadget, Santander's Group City in Madrid enlisted YDreams to craft a fleet of robots to help visitors around the nine massive buildings that make up the bank's complex and that house about 5,500 employees. Upon entering the bank's visitor center, you walk up to a ...

London-based streetwear design label Cassette Playa recently presented its Autumn/Winter 2010 collection, incorporating augmented reality software and projections into the show. The label claimed that the idea of video game avatars figured heavily into this season's concept; as the consumer dons an outfit, she essentially becomes a new character. For the show, each of the analog looks contained ...

Augmented reality has primarily been used to locate nearby restaurants, insert 3-D baddies into video games, and offer glorified advertisements. General Motors, however, is trying to put the technology to good use, and integrate it into the windshields of future automobiles. Under the generic title "enhanced vision system," the prototype uses sensors, GPS, and video cameras to overlay useful ...

When the Wii, with its decidedly last-gen graphics technology, hit the market and trounced the competition, we knew it would only be a matter of time before Sony and Microsoft tried to copy Nintendo's motion sensing technology. While details are still scarce about the Xbox 360's Project Natal, the PlayStation Move has been officially announced and is expected to hit the market this fall. The ...

Recall with us, if you will, 'Back To the Future Part II,' in which Marty McFly leaves 1985 (25 years ago!), and shoots through time and space to arrive in 2015. It's sort of unnerving when you realize that's only five years from now. And just think about how many of the movie's predictions have already come true: from TV glasses to video conferencing to an MLB team in Miami. We have to give ...

Think of 2009 as the year all this augmented reality business really hit its stride. There are the Adidas sneaks that let wearers wander around a virtual world, the 'District 9' military training sim, and even that John Mayer music video that let people make cameos. This time, the latest AR effort comes from the Swedish mag T-post. On its site you can play a form of rock paper scissors all by ...

Augmented reality took off like a rocket last year -- with everything from sneakers to music videos making use of the technology. And, with the new year starting, it doesn't look like the trend will slow down, either. According to TechCrunch, the Ohio company behind the Muscle Milk protein drink has funneled that potent elixir into a special-edition Shaquille O'Neal bottle, which -- when paired ...

One of the most original and exciting products making its debut at CES is undoubtedly the A.R. Drone from Parrot. The augmented reality gaming platform incorporates a remote controlled helicopter and a controller app for the iPhone. (One of the engineers on the project told us that it will be coming to other platforms, too.) We decided to head to Parrot's tent outside the Las Vegas Convention ...

AR.Drone by Parrot The crowd that formed around the hovering, slightly tilting AR.Drone seemed as excited as the French developers did about their creation. Based on augmented reality gaming, the dragonfly-like, four-propellered 'quadricopter' boasts two on-board cameras that sense surrounding objects -- trees, people, walls -- and integrate them into gaming. While no software has been ...

Augmented reality technology has really caught fire this year, touching upon everything from movie promotions to sharpshooting games to John Mayer videos. So what's the next augmented frontier? In the immortal words of Mars Blackmon, "it's gotta be the shoes." At least that's what Adidas thinks. The company, according to Wired, is gearing up to launch a new augmented reality sneaker that ...

Android owners just got another killer app -- Google Goggles. Goggles is a visual search app that lets you snap pictures of things like books, paintings, or landmarks, and get back Google search results. You can even snap photos of business cards -- Goggles will recognize the text as contact information and allow you to add it to your address book. Slightly more interesting, Goggles has some ...