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Half-Amazing, Half-Terrifying Concept App Combines Facial Recognition With Augmented Reality One of the (many) reasons augmented reality apps haven’t caught on is because they usually require markers or special objects for their tracking software to work. Unlike this Obvious Engine system, which can easily track anything in a scene.
When I was a kid, we lived first-person shooters, running around with vests and pistols in a game called Lazer Tag. It’s long gone, but this new Xappr Gun for smartphones looks like it might recreate some of that fun.
The company that brought us the iPhone Appgun is back with another augmented reality toy. This time it’s a board game called CheckARz which takes a crack at recreating that awesome battling chess set from Star Wars, with marginal success.
Embedded augmented reality chip technology means we’ll finally start using AR for good instead of filling all the app stores with Predator, Terminator and Robocop camera overlay apps. Nah, I’m just kidding, it’s probably going to get worse.
Augmented Reality shopping, anyone? Tissot’s AR app lets you try on expensive watches — but without the watch part. Which means you’re trying on a watch that doesn’t exist.
I love Cyborg Vision, an augmented reality app that recognises your Facebook friends’ faces and overlays their information like the vision of the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Series 800. Yes, this $0.99 app gives you Terminator’s vision.
Augmented Reality’s one of those terms that’s been rather over-used in recent years, but Layar, one of the first AR smartphone apps, remains a favourite.
We’ve known about the AppBlaster for some time now, but last week, one landed on my desk. Armed only with an iPhone 3GS, I set to seeing whether a plastic AR gun could really make my real world shooting dreams come true.
