augmented reality
Software
10 iPhone Apps To Augment Your Sad Reality
12:00PM John Herrman | Augmented reality. It’s definitely a buzz word, but what is it? How do you experience it? Is there an app for it? Oh, most definitely. Here are 10. More »
Software
Augmented Reality App Tracks Where US Gov. Bailout Dollars Went
1:20PM Dan Nosowitz | Layar has a new augmented reality app function for iPhone and Android that’s depressingly topical: It’ll let you see exactly where US bailout money went, via recovery.gov, which is pretty sweet since you sort of own all that stuff! More »
Gadgets
Build Your Own Life HUD With A Smartphone And Cardboard
1:34AM John Herrman | 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 »
Gadgets
AR Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost To Marine Mechanics
5:20PM Matt Buchanan | It’s like a real-life Starcraft perk for mechanics repairing armoured vehicles: Marine mechanics, assisted by augmented-reality goggles with a heads-up display, repaired light armoured vehicles up to 46 per cent faster. More »
Music
10:10AM Nick Broughall | My favourite thing at the moment is augmented reality, so I’m completely in love with the video clip project for Sydney band Lost Valentinos song Nightmoves. More »
Sydney Band Uses Augmented Reality For Video Clip
10:10AM Nick Broughall | My favourite thing at the moment is augmented reality, so I’m completely in love with the video clip project for Sydney band Lost Valentinos song Nightmoves. More »
Design
5:17AM John Herrman | 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 favourites. More »
The Desperate Puppy In The Window, Digitised
5:17AM John Herrman | 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 favourites. More »
Software
Android’s Best Augmented Reality App Hits The iPhone
8:59AM John Herrman | 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 »
Screens
Augmented Reality Finger Billboard Prods, Destroys Passersby
2:20AM John Herrman | Chris O’Shea, an artist with latent fantasies about growing into a giant and teasing, then destroying, the people of Liverpool, England, has a new installation! It’s a live video billboard that teases, then destroys, the people of Liverpool, England. More »
Software
PewPewPew (With Your iPhone)
6:59AM Matt Buchanan | I don’t really have to explain this one, do I? It’s called iPew and it’s $1.19 and it’s got rockets and lasers and fire and bullets and it’s awesome. [iTunes, Thanks Kevin!]
Software
The Secret Ingredient Is
7:20AM Mark Wilson | 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 »
