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The worlds largest augmented reality project - Augmented Planet

Posted by work 3 days ago English News
http://www.augmentedplanet.com — If you want to use augmented reality to visualize what that new sofa will look like in your living room you simply print a marker, place it on the floor and point your webcam.

André Fogaça who works in marketing for a construction company called Rossi based out in Brazil liked the idea of using augmented reality to help potential customers visualize their product, the only problem was the prod Read More
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Head-up uses facial recognition and augmented reality - Hack a Day

Posted by hacho 9 days ago English News
http://hackaday.com — Scouter is a facial recognition system and head-up display that [Christopher Mitchell] developed for his Master’s Thesis. The wearable device combines the computing power of an eeePC 901 with a Vuzix VR920 wearable display and a Logitech Quickcam 9000. The camera is mounted face-forward on the wearable display like a third eye and the live feed is patched through to the wearer. [Christopher's] so Read More
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Can Augmented Reality Help Save the Print Publishing Industry?

Posted by hacho 9 days ago English News
http://www.readwriteweb.com — There's a memorable scene in the movie Minority Report where a man reads a futuristic newspaper with rich embedded multimedia updating live with breaking news. While we are a long way seeing anything like this in the hands of the general public, a German newspaper has taken a small step in that direction with the release of a special augmented reality (AR) edition of its Friday magazine.
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Metaverse One: AR-cadabra with the Virtual Magician

Posted by hacho 9 days ago English News
http://damonhernandez.blogspot.com — So I attended the New York Augmented Reality (ARNY) meetup on Tuesday night, which was awesome, and one of the people I got the chance to meet was Marco Tempest, the Virtual Magician. Now I am familiar with Marco by his Youtube videos that blend the latest in technology with magic for super cool presentations and illusions. Read More
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Lonely Planet’s 25 travel guides get a dose of Augmented Reality

Posted by hacho 26 days ago English News
http://eu.techcrunch.com — Lonely Planet, the BBC World-owned travel guide company, has rolled out an Augmented Reality option for Android users.

Now targeting 25 popular European, US and Asian cities, its AR-supported ‘Compass Guides’ use a combination of GPS, compass and the phone’s camera to enable users to see their current location and nearby points of interest. The app then overlays information on top of the devic Read More
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Augmented Reality Market Place for iPhone developers – Augmented Planet

Posted by hacho 26 days ago English News
http://www.augmentedplanet.com — The number of new augmented reality iPhone applications published in July was 54. That brings the total to 605 augmented reality applications available for the iPhone. Of the 605 applications, at least 100 of them have dubious at best claims to be augmented reality applications. Next month I’ll look at hiding those.

It’s also worth mentioning, included in the 54 new applications this month, is Read More
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Next-Gen Smartphone Games - ARDefender available on Samsung Apps ! - int13.net

Posted by hacho 26 days ago English News
http://www.int13.net — ARDefender is an Augmented Reality Game, involving a tower, various weapons and nasty opponents bugging you on your desk. Simply move your phone to target the enemies, it’s magical! The game uses your camera phone and a piece a paper that you printed. Read More
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Augmented Reality - insidear - metaio

Posted by hacho 26 days ago English News
http://www.metaio.com — The insideAR augmented reality conference by metaio is a comprehensive overview about state of the art technology and business opportunities in the growing field of connecting real and virtual worlds. You will have the chance to get in touch with our R&D or application development specialists as well as our partners and international experts from various industries. See the applications of tomorr Read More
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