Intel Augmented Reality Digital Signage Could Make Shopping Awesome

Gizmodo AU

This morning at Digital Signage World, Intel were showing off their proof of concept augmented reality digital display. It uses a combination of real time analytics, augmented reality and comprehensive touchscreen technology to allow users to engage with the display to get more from their shopping experience. Every shopping centre should get one now.


July 15, 2010

NYC’s Sexiest Billboard Doesn’t Care For Dumbphones

See that beautiful model there, frolicking with a few of her friends? No? Well, your smartphone can. This billboard – and two others like it – is one giant QR code that in this case gives particular significance to augmented reality.


July 8, 2010
Gaming

Rocking And Socking In Augmented Reality

Augmented reality, so far: lotta buzz, little honey. Some window shopping, some historical photos – it’s nice, but it doesn’t really kick my arse into the fantastic, augmented future. Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, though? That’ll do it.


June 21, 2010
Software

Kickball AR Juggling App Lacks Only The Droning Buzz Of Vuvuzelas

As you juggle your virtual, augmented reality soccer ball with this cool little cameraphone-enabled app, be sure to have friends blare their vuvuzelas in your ears to complete the ambiance.


June 15, 2010
Mobile

19th Century Tech Makes A Smarter iPhone

Rarely has 19th-century technology stirred an audience of 21st-century technophiles as it did last week when Apple revealed that the next-generation iPhone will pack a gyroscope. But will this new sensor be, in Jobs’s words, “just perfect for gaming”?


June 4, 2010
Software

Layar 3.5 Update Does Away With Searching to Save Time

In your FACE, iPhone users! Layar’s latest update, 3.5, has been released first for Android phones. It includes the new ‘stream’ feature, which offers up augmented reality information based on your location, without a search entry needed.


Software

Las Vegas Augmented Reality App Makes The Strip Even More Larger Than Life

Vegas is already larger than life, causing a crick in the neck every time you want to take in the full wonders of the strip. And that’s before you make it to Déjà Vu Erotic Ultralounge.


May 26, 2010
Software

Strolling Through 19th Century London Today

Augmented reality might be the future, but my favourite application so far transports you far into past. StreetMuseum – an iPhone app from the Museum of London – overlays 400 years of historic images on today’s city streets.


May 18, 2010
Science

Conquer Your Fear Of Creepy Crawlies With Augmented Reality

A lot of augmented reality applications we’ve seen thus far have seemed a little, well, excessive. But if AR can put me at peace with spiders, snakes, cockroaches and the rest? That’s a feat deserving of a Nobel Prize.


April 23, 2010
Software

Augmented Reality Flashmob Kicking Off Tomorrow In Amsterdam

Armed with either an iPhone or Android, hundreds of Amsterdam residents are expected to converge on Dam Square tomorrow at 2pm for the first ever augmented reality flashmob. Darth Vader, Superman and various other characters will be making super-special appearances.