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Your Future Morning View Will Make You Vomit

Current augmented reality: Computers recognizing your surroundings and overlaying useful information over the real world. Future advertising-driven augmented reality according to Keiichi Matsudafor: A mind blowing view that will make everyone of us puke. Even his simulation makes me dizzy. More »

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By Jesus Diaz

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Sky Siege Augmented Reality Warfare Game Turns iPhone Into Deadly Portal to the Heavens

Sky Siege ($3, available now) uses the iPhone 3GS' compass and accelerometers to turn the iPhone into a window rather than just a screen, resulting in startlingly immersive gameplay. Don't know what that means? Just watch this remarkable clip. [iTunes]

02/08/10

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By Mark Wilson

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Now You Can See Through Buildings Like Batman Bin Suparman

Taking a hint from how the F-35 demon helmet maps multiple video feeds into a 3D space, a Carnegie Mellon University team has created an augmented reality car system to see through any massive obstacle. The objective: Avoid car collisions. More »

01/17/10

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By Jesus Diaz

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Augmented Reality Façade Shows Building's Real-Time Deets and Tweets

The street-facing side of Tokyo's N Building is covered in QR codes that can be read by your phone for up-to-date information—including Twitter updates from the building's inhabitants as they happen. More »

01/12/10

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By Brian Barrett

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Hands-On With The Vuzix Wrap 920AR Augmented Reality Glasses: Fun, Shame About The Lousy Resolution

Taking design cues from the Oakley Thump MP3 player sunglasses is never a good idea. But that's not the only fault these Vuzix Wrap 920AR glasses have. The resolution sucks. More »

01/08/10

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Vuzix Wrap 920AR Augmented Reality Glasses: Why Can't Anyone Make These Things Look Cool?

Vuzix can make glasses with built in stereoscopic cameras that can seamlessly blend computer-generated imagery and your real world environment together, but they can't make them look cool? More »

01/08/10

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By Sean Fallon

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Even Epson Has Caught The Augmented Reality Bug

Did you send Christmas cards this year? Perhaps an e-card? A text? Whatever you did, Epson has just one-upped you with its augmented reality greeting cards. More »

12/29/09

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By Kat Hannaford

#iphoneapps

Open Apps On a Virtual iPhone, Thanks To Augmented Reality

While it doesn't have photos of scantily-clad teens or help you find the nearest bar, this Orange 3D app has wowed me hard. When pointed at an Orange logo, the app launches a hovering, virtual iPhone which you can control. More »

12/23/09

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By Kat Hannaford

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Augmented Reality Used By Red Cross To Target Japanese Nerdlingers

Man alive, even Japan's Red Cross Society is technologically-savvy. Commuters rushing through Akihabara station recently were treated to an augmented reality campaign urging them to donate blood. Anime girls in short skirts = instant win for the blood bank. More »

12/21/09

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By Kat Hannaford

#japan

Augmented Reality...Wait For It...Vending Machines!

America is so lame. When you buy a soft drink from a vending machine here, and all you get is diabetes. In Japan, however, you get the whole augmented reality experience. More »

12/08/09

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By Mark Wilson

#magic

An Augmented Reality Projection Tracking System Actually Makes This Magician Seem Cool

Magicians seem to have fallen out of favor in recent years, but Marco Tempest, the "Virtual Magician" has something going that could change all of that: augmented reality. More »

12/03/09

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By Sean Fallon

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Dear New Layar 3.0: You Got Me at Beatles

The new big feature of Layar 3.0 is 3D objects. But what I like most is the new point of interest story-telling and guided tours. Especially the Beatles Tour in London, which leads you through 42 locations in the city. More »

12/03/09

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By Jesus Diaz

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Augmented Reality Goofiness Thanks to Avatar and Coke

There's just no escaping the Avatar marketing machine. Special bottle-shaped Coke Zero cans will soon hit the streets, and when held up to your Webcam, they'll make a controllable helicopter appear on screen. Take a look. More »

11/25/09

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By Danny Allen

#apps

Augmented Reality iPhone/Android App Tracks Where Government Bailout Dollars Went

Layar has a new augmented reality app function for iPhone and Android that's ~~delightfully~~ depressingly topical: It'll let you see exactly where bailout money went, via recovery.gov, which is pretty sweet since you sort of own all that stuff! More »

10/27/09

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By Dan Nosowitz

#howto

Build Your Own Life HUD With a Smartphone and Some Cardboard

A cardboard box, sliced to pieces, taped together, fastened to a pair of work goggles, and capped off with an HTC Magic: this is what DIY augmented reality looks like, right now. More »

10/27/09

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By John Herrman

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Augmented Reality Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost to Marine Mechanics

It's like a real-life Starcraft perk for mechanics repairing armored vehicles: Marine mechanics assisted by augmented-reality goggles with a heads-up display repaired light armored vehicles up to 46 percent faster. More »

10/27/09

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By matt buchanan

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The Desperate Puppy in the Window, Digitized

Projected against a shop window in New York, Sniff is a 3D animated dog. He's just a computer-generated rendering, sure, but he's got personality—he reacts to your gestures, follows you around, and presented with a group, chooses favorites. More »

10/15/09

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By John Herrman

#iphoneapps

Android's Best Augmented Reality App Hits the iPhone

Layar, the first camera-based AR app to really blow us (or anyone) away, has quietly slipped into the App Store. As with the Android version, the app overlays all kinds of information onto a live view of the world around you. More »

10/14/09

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By John Herrman

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PewPewPew (With Your iPhone)

I don't really have to explain this one, do I? It's called iPew and it's 99 cents and it's got rockets and lasers and fire and bullets and it's awesome. [iTunes, Thanks Kevin!]

10/09/09

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By matt buchanan

#food

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The Secret Ingredient Is Love Augmented Reality

The confections look innocent enough—slightly geometric renditions of Vanilla Refrigerator Cookies from The Joy of Cooking. But hold these cookie markers under a webcam with some accompanying software, and you get this: More »

10/06/09

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By Mark Wilson

#iphoneapps

Cyclopedia Augmented Reality iPhone App Drenches Your World In Wikipedia

App concepts don't get much simpler than this, or much cooler: Cyclopedia takes Wikipedia's tens of thousands of geotagged entries, and overlays them onto a live, compass-oriented view of your surroundings. More »

10/01/09

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By John Herrman

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