Tag Archives: augmented reality

Sphero, the $130 Robot Ball That’s Also a Video Game, Rolls Out in December

Robots. Video Games. Smart phones. What do they all have in common? Sphero. The robotic ball that you control via [...]

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The Latest Updates to Augmented Reality: 3D and Gravity

Augmented reality allows you to look through the camera on your mobile phone and see a digital world superimposed on [...]

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Sphero, The Robot Ball You Control With Your Phone, Is Getting Ready To Roll Into Your Home

Orbotix has the hottest set of robot balls out there, and it’s finally showing what they really look like to [...]

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Augmented Reality Browser Makes Your Mobile A Portal Into the Digital World

I don’t know if you noticed, but a parallel Earth has merged with our own, overlapping our reality no matter [...]

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TRON is Coming, You Can Already Drive a Light Cycle On Your Phone (video)

I’ve crashed my motorcycle dozens of times in the past few days. Don’t worry, it’s virtual. Coke Zero has teamed [...]

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Look Inside $2000 Augmented Reality Glasses (video)

You may think the ability to reshape your world as you see fit would be priceless, but it’s not. Vuzix [...]

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New Augmented Reality Software Removes Objects From Video Feeds In Realtime

What if you could remove all the ugliness in the world? It’s not a hypothetical question. Researchers at Ilmenau University [...]

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Catching Augmented Reality Butterflies on Your iPhone to Earn Free Stuff (video)

If you see some crazy person waving their phone around like they’re trying to hit an imaginary bug, don’t worry [...]

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Augmented Reality On Your Glasses, Maps in Your Eyes (video)

How do you know you’re watching a science fiction movie? Easy – there’s always someone who has a video, or [...]

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Japan’s Taking Its Virtual Girlfriend on a Real Date

Dude, have you seen Japan’s girlfriend? She’s totally hot for an imaginary chick. The resort town of Atami, Japan hit [...]

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Japan’s Augmented Reality Teleconference Room (video)

Get ready for teleconferencing in the round. NTT, the world’s second largest telecomm, has developed a new video room that [...]

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MIT’s Robot Lamp with Augmented Reality (video)

MIT has created its own version of a magic lamp. Nathan Linder of the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT Media [...]

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Parrot’s AR Drone Gets Cool New Augmented Reality Games (video)

Just in time for the E3 Expo, Parrot has released new augmented reality video games for its awesome AR Drone. [...]

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IBM’s Virtual Mirror Brings Augmented Reality to Makeup Counters (video)

Mega-corp IBM has teamed up with Israel-based EZface to create a “virtual mirror” that allows you to see what makeup [...]

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Blaise Aguera Demos Amazing Dynamic and Augmented Reality Maps (Video)

Expect more from your maps. Blaise Aguera y Arcas, the mind behind Sea Dragon’s revolutionary approach to photo images, is [...]

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Robots, Augmented Reality and More – The Building of the Future

Amazing! Someone took all the stunning technological advancements of the past decade and actually made a building that looks like [...]

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Clothes With Matrix Codes Put Information Up Front

Matrix codes are like bar codes on steroids. To the naked eye, they look deceptively like a series of dots [...]

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Augmented Reality Makes Walls Transparent (Video)

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are going to bring you Superman’s X-ray vision. Using multiple cameras and new video transformation [...]

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Iphone App Lets You See What People Are Tweeting Inside Building

If you’re not satisfied with projecting videos onto a building, or turning it into a giant pinball machine, maybe you’d [...]

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Vuzix Displays Stereo Augmented Reality Glasses at CES 2010

One of the really great parts of attending CES was getting to actually try out some of the cool new [...]

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Augmented Reality To Help Military Mechanics Fix Vehicles (Video)

The days when you can fix your own car may be coming to an end. New vehicles have complex onboard [...]

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iPhone Helicopter from Parrot is Amazing (Video)

Gather up any presents you may have received this winter, return them to the store, and take the cash. The [...]

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Vuzix Makes Head Mounted Display Easy with iWear CamAR

Augmented Reality may be the artistic medium of the future. We’ve already seen AR in large corporate displays, video games, [...]

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Haptic Ring Lets You Feel Objects in Augmented Reality (Video)

The first thing that we often give children to hold is a stuffed animal so it makes sense that the [...]

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SixthSense Augmented Reality Device Goes Open Source

Have you ever looked at an object in a display window and wondered how much it cost? Or have you [...]

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