augmented reality
Gaming

Ex-Valve Engineers’ Crazy AR Glasses Put Tiny Projectors On Your Face

Want some more tech to put on your face? Neither full-on goggles like the Oculus Rift nor slender no-AR-yet specs like Google’s Glass, CastAR takes a whole different approach to modified-reality tech by slapping tiny projectors on your face, and The Verge got to take a peek.

10 March 2013

Geek Out

Turn Your Pool Table Into A Psychedelic Aquarium With Kinect-Powered Projection Effects

Pool is a fun game, but with just some coloured balls on a plain green field, the spectacle is a little lacking. We’ve already seen how some clever projection can turn anyone into a pool shark, but now OpenPool is taking it a step further by turning pool into a psychedelic rave of a game.

22 February 2013

Computing

New Dedicated AR Chips Could Keep Your Reality Augmented Forever

Augment reality has always been cool, but it’s never quite been practical for extended use. Crazy processor demands chew up battery power and deliver a workable experience, but not one that can last. Metaio aims to but an end to that with the first ever dedicated augmented-reality chip, and it’s coming as soon as the end of this year.

21 February 2013

Gadgets

The Best Google Glasses Analogy Yet

Google Glasses might be a neat version of the future, but they’re also awkward and unnecessary. You know, kind of like a Segway?

13 February 2013

Software

I Am The Prettiest Princess

I am the prettiest princess, and you(r child of either gender) can be too. With an endless supply of cyber-makeup afforded by the Barbie™ Digital Makeover Mirror, an iPad and the associated app, your (child’s) dreams of effervescent, MSPaint magnificence can — will come true.

6 February 2013

Gadgets

Augmented Reality Case Turns Your iPhone Into A Tape Measure

There are already a handful of iOS apps that can turn your iPhone into a tape measure (minus the tape) in a pinch, but Incipio’s new Rugged AR Case promises a usable level of accuracy when it comes to measuring distances of up to 6m.

11 January 2013

Software

Big Bird Will Teach Kids To Read With Qualcomm’s Augmented Reality Tech

Were children just totally illiterate before Sesame Street? Because the creators of the children’s show have great tools for teaching kids how to read — like an upcoming augmented reality app called Big Bird’s Words.

10 January 2013

Software

Facecake Is An Awesome Augmented Reality Shopping App

I really love to shop, but I always feel bad about pestering the salesperson for different sizes or colours of a pair of pants or something. Facecake is a technology that makes it so you never have to ask another human being if these jeans make you look fat.

9 January 2013

Cars

Harman Wants To Put Augmented Reality In Your Car’s Windshield

Harman has developed an augmented reality display technology that give you real-time information in your windshield while you drive. It’s like Google Glasses for your car, except that the product is actually about to launch it (or so they say). And Harman promises you won’t crash while using it.

20 December 2012

Gadgets

Augmented Reality Eyepatches Will Probably Lead To Super Pirates

The excitement for Google’s Project Glass has been lukewarm at best, but apparently there are at least a few technophiles out there excited for the technology. Like Gregory McRoberts, who apparently couldn’t wait for Google to finish its augmented reality specs, so he designed his own that’s worn like an eyepatch.

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