We make no secret of our love for Muppets, so we’re psyched that these new augmented reality Band-Aids are bringing our favourite puppets into the 21st century.
This interactive avatar is projected onto a plexiglass silhouette of a woman’s body. Lost and disoriented travellers can ask her for help with things like getting to the correct gate, security checkpoint rules, and duty-free shopping.
Special features are great, when they’re included in DVDs to supplement your favourite movie or TV show. So, why does the idea of creating special features for ebooks seem so… unnecessary?
Remember the incredible Google Glasses promo video? The one promising us an ultra-futuristic augmented reality UI for our everyday lives? Science fiction cum reality! Well, it’s not going to be as cool as we were promised. Le sigh.
Unlike Tupac, BBC host James May doesn’t have to be dead before we get an augmented reality version of him. Granted, this is not quite as thrilling as having a Hologram Tupac Shakur perform as if still living, but as far as museum guides go, an augmented reality miniature man is a pretty sweet deal.
It looks like Google has been making moves to lock down the intellectual property behind Project Glass. The company has been granted three patents that could give some clues about the guts behind the augmented reality specs, aside from the teaser that dropped earlier in the month.
As dorky as you’ll look wearing Google Glasses, the idea of augmented reality specs is dripping with potential awesomeness (and guaranteed hilarity). So it’s not a surprise that sunglasses king Oakley is working on its own Google Glasses competitor. Maybe they won’t be as ugly as Google’s?
We’ve seen some pretty crazy potential uses for Google Glasses, but what if instead of helping you commute better, they made your diet easier? These augmented reality glasses do just that by tricking you into thinking you’ve eaten more than you have. Obesity solved!
When Google officially announced the lofty-sounding “Project Glass” last week it neglected to give us one crucial piece of information: When in the hell are we going to actually get cool augmented reality glasses? Maybe never! So why wait for a multibillion dollar corporation to make the glasses when you can make them yourself?
We first heard rumours about Google’s augmented reality glasses a few months ago, and now in a post on Google Plus, the company has revealed some of its ideas for the project including some prototype designs. These specs look like the freaky science fiction concept they are. Would you wear them, though?