You may think Wimbledon, with its exquisitely manicured grass courts, royal family attendees, and strawberries and champagne is an old-fashioned affair. You'd be wrong. This year, along enjoying a retractable roof, the audience is ...READ»
Yesterday we wrote about the Android AR app called Layar, and today a hands-on video demo appeared revealing something unexpected: In the future, if your business isn't in the right places on the Web, your trade will suffer.
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We've been writing about how amazing augmented reality systems could be for a while, but soon you'll be able to get a proper taster yourself. An app called Layar is due for Android phones this month, and it has several real ...READ»
It may not be quite up to the spec of Geordi La Forge's visor on Star Trek TNG, but researchers in Germany have come up with an eyeglass-mounted display that's so freakily high-tech you may need only to move your eyes to control a PC.READ»
The botanically-minded among you will be fascinated by the developments of an upcoming augmented reality application being created by The National Science Foundation. As we reported in "Scientists Developing iPhone App to ...READ»
RFID technology gets mixed press thanks to its useful/creepy remote-distance object identification, but a new device--Mirror--may change all that. It's a cute, potentially useful gadget, and actually hard to describe--possibly since ...READ»
Augmented reality has been slowly moving beyond the realm of science fiction into real life, but it just got a large boost from Nokia. The Finish cellphone maker has introduced a public version of an app dubbed "Point and ...READ»
I have my doubts about Google's new plan to better target advertising to meet our transient interests. As yet another manifestation of the idea of only showing us the ads we want to see, when we want to see them, it will inevitably ...READ»
I'm here in building 33 on the Microsoft campus today for TechFest 2009, where the company's R&D division demos the future of everything from touch input mobile devices to the integration of social tools with your e-mail inbox. ...READ»
Augmented reality on smartphones may well be a killer app, but MIT's Fluid Interfaces group is already moving beyond the confines of a GPS-capable cellphone to create a data-driven "Sixth Sense."
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News of the Vuzix Wrap 920AV video-glasses first appeared a few days ago, but without any specific data. Now we know that along with looking less retro-sci-fi than previous video-goggles, they're packing some interesting ...READ»
