Augmented reality

The Daqri Smart Helmet Wants to Put Augmented Reality to Work

Augmented reality is coming. Whether it’s a dedicated screen strapped to your face or a just a pair of glasses, computer-enhanced vision will have a place in our tech future. But exactly what package it will arrive in is up for grabs. Where Google Glass and VR companies aim for wide consumer applications, the Los…

Tech News Darren Orf

These New Glasses Could Make Augmented Reality Practical

Augmented reality is awesome, but seriously, you don’t want to wear bulky glasses that use lenses, beam splitters and reflectors that make the magic happen. A Ph.D student at UNC-Chapel Hill has developed a sleek pair of augmented reality glasses that are actually light and compact. Andrew Maimone has been working with three other researchers…

Tech News Pranav Dixit

Epson’s New Smart Glasses Provide Pilots with Smart HUDs

The Eurofighter Typhoon and F-35 Lightning II are two of the most advanced warplanes ever designed and come replete with bleeding-edge, motion-tracking, x-ray-vision-enabled helmets. But why should Air Force pilots have all the fun? Epson’s Moverio smart glasses have been on the market for a couple of years now, but have hereunto been used primarily…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Augmented Reality Climbing Walls Turn Mountaineering Into a Game

There are lots of reasons to tackle a climbing wall at your local gym: it’s great exercise, it can improve your hand-eye coordination, and it helps instill useful mountaineering skills should you ever find yourself trapped on a cliff. But researchers at Aalto University in Finland want to take them one step further through the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

An Augmented Reality Windshield Tells You How to Take a Racing Line

Land Rover’s windshield experiments have already been pretty impressive — rememberthe conceptthat would make your car’s bonnet appear transparent to make it easier to avoid potholes? But what if you’re on a silky-smooth race track, looking to perfect your performance? That’s the focus of the auto manufacturer’s latest concept. Just like a video game’s HUD…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

Oculus Rift Developer Creates Weird Third-Person View Hack

This man is living the dream of starring in his own real-world video game, using a complex camera rig and an Oculus Rift headset to view his own life from the popular behind-and-up-a-bit third-person perspective. He is also, presumably, very confused. The project uses a pair of GoPro cameras, fixing them to a 3D-printed mount…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Project Tango Hands-On: Computer Vision Is So Much Cooler Than You Think

Google’s Project Tango tablet can see in 3D, but I didn’t really understand why I, human person, would actually care about the technology beyond an abstract appreciation of the ideas behind it. Until I strapped one to my face, with an Oculus Rift-like head mask. Until I strapped the mask on, I never believed that…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

These Augmented Reality Specs Can Turn a Regular Joe into James Bond

While 007 can seemingly pull off any impossible mission without breaking a sweat, real world field intelligence agents don’t have it nearly that easy. They must maintain encyclopedic mental records of names and faces as well as relay information to and from HQ—all without blowing their covers. To give its agents an edge in their…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Google’s Project Tango Will Power Augmented Reality Shopping

Google just announced a pretty impressive-looking retail experience powered by its Project Tango 3D mapping service. With help from aisle411 and Walgreens, the new augmented reality shopping technology will help you find products more efficiently. It sort of turns shopping into a video game. Google and aisle411 unveiled the new technology at the I/O developer…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Lowe’s Is Putting (Kinda Sorta) Holodecks In Some of Its Stores

If you’ve ever done any home improvement, you know how hard it is to visualize what a finished room will look like. That’s why Lowe’s is going to start putting so-called Holorooms in its stores. These augmented reality chambers show your finished project before you’ve even started. Lowe’s is completely transparent about the extent to…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

An Augmented Reality Mirror Lets You Test Makeup Without Putting It On

Thanks to this slick augmented reality mirror, if you happen to find yourself in Sephora’s makeup store while visiting Milan, Italy, you’ll have the rare opportunity to try on almost every shade of eyeshadow the company sells, without ever putting any of it on your face. The mirror was created by a company called ModiFace,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

An Augmented Reality Made With Hand-Drawn Cartoons and an iPhone

Prolific doodler Marty Cooper carries around animation cels, a marker, and some Wite-Out as he wanders the city, creating whimsical scenes that turn mundane background imagery into charming mini-stories. And he painstakingly captures them on his iPhone to create the animated world of Aug(De)Mented Reality. http://mcgnarcal.tumblr.com/ These grin-inducing little vignettes defy rigid definition: are they…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

New Thermal Technology Turns the Entire World into a Touchscreen

Holy crap, somebody invented something that makes Google Glass seem cool. The augmented reality wizards at Metaio just showed off their Thermal Touch technology, a new kind of user interface that basically turns the whole world into a touchscreen. It looks pretty futuristic. The idea itself is surprisingly simple. Whenever you touch something, you leave…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Turn an NYC Subway Map Into an Augmented Reality Adventure

Riding through New York City’s subway can be a surprisingly solitary pursuit. Waiting on the platform is even worse. That’s why creative technologist William Lindmeier built Tunnel Vision, an augmented reality app that uses the subway map as a canvas for displaying public data about the city’s residents. It’s beautiful, both for its simplicity and…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

An Artist Is Using Augmented Reality To Stage a Guerrilla Show at MoMA

New York’s Museum of Modern Art won’t display the early work of choreographer Ted Shawn—so Adam H. Weinert is doing it for them. Surprise! MoMa just got a permanent unauthorized exhibition that displays performances inside the museum through an augmented reality app. Weinert explains that while Shawn gave his works to MoMA, the museum gave…

Tech News Leslie Horn

A Smartphone Turns These Fast Food Trays Into Tiny Soccer Fields

Decades ago McDonald’s realized that food wasn’t the only way to draw kids into its restaurants. Toys, playgrounds, and cartoon characters all help the cause, and now a Brazilian food chain called Giraffas has come up with a clever way to lure soccer fans into its restaurants, just in time for the 2014 FIFA World…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Is How Wearable Computing Will Revolutionize Healthcare

Clinical settings and emergency rooms will never look the same once augmented reality and other collaborative devices finally make their much vaunted appearance. And as this new video from Wearable Intelligence shows, it could even save our lives. The video shows how Google Glass, once integrated with other tools, could be used to assist in…

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An Augmented Reality Transparent Hood Could Keep You Out of Potholes

Aside from the sleek body designs and supercharged engines, part of the appeal of a sports car is feeling close to the ground, hurtling along with such close proximity to the roads as to feel a tangible connection to the street or circuit beneath you. But as Jaguar Land Rover’s Transparent Bonnet concept shows, augmented…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

This cool pad and pen lets you sketch in 3D using augmented reality

Gravity is a pen and pad that allows to sketch in 3D space using augmented reality. The cool patent-pending system hardware and software system has gone through several working prototypes and now they are looking to start manufacturing. Check out the video—it’s pretty cool. Gravity’s creators—a group of four Innovation Design Engineering students of the…

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The Future of Active Eyewear: An Interview With Oakley’s R&D Division

The pinnacle achievement in active eyewear was once simply making a pair of sunglasses that were light and wouldn’t shatter into your eyeballs. While that’s still important, technology has obviously progressed. So what is the future, exactly? Heads-up displays? Augmented reality? Cybernetic retinal implants? At a recent event in Los Angeles, we caught up with…

Tech News Brent Rose

The Daqri Smart Helmet Wants to Put Augmented Reality to Work

These New Glasses Could Make Augmented Reality Practical

Epson’s New Smart Glasses Provide Pilots with Smart HUDs

Augmented Reality Climbing Walls Turn Mountaineering Into a Game

An Augmented Reality Windshield Tells You How to Take a Racing Line

Oculus Rift Developer Creates Weird Third-Person View Hack

Project Tango Hands-On: Computer Vision Is So Much Cooler Than You Think

These Augmented Reality Specs Can Turn a Regular Joe into James Bond

Google’s Project Tango Will Power Augmented Reality Shopping

Lowe’s Is Putting (Kinda Sorta) Holodecks In Some of Its Stores

An Augmented Reality Mirror Lets You Test Makeup Without Putting It On

An Augmented Reality Made With Hand-Drawn Cartoons and an iPhone

New Thermal Technology Turns the Entire World into a Touchscreen

Turn an NYC Subway Map Into an Augmented Reality Adventure

An Artist Is Using Augmented Reality To Stage a Guerrilla Show at MoMA

A Smartphone Turns These Fast Food Trays Into Tiny Soccer Fields

This Is How Wearable Computing Will Revolutionize Healthcare

An Augmented Reality Transparent Hood Could Keep You Out of Potholes

This cool pad and pen lets you sketch in 3D using augmented reality

The Future of Active Eyewear: An Interview With Oakley’s R&D Division

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