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Augmented reality: What do businesses need to know?

Posted March 13, 2013 - 10:59 am

The technology has been around for quite some time, but like so many other fringe smartphone features, augmented reality has yet to present itself as a must-have for consumers.
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New HP app turns photos into videos

Posted February 27, 2013 - 11:30 am

Could HP's new Live Photo app change the way we take photos and/or videos?
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Meet Microsoft, the world's best kept R&D secret

Posted January 2, 2013 - 3:28 pm

As far as 99.9 percent of the world population is concerned, Microsoft is a stodgy, old-guard technology company. Its bottom line is fully leveraged against PC operating systems and business software--hardly the building blocks of a future-thinking portfolio, right?
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High-tech glasses wow with new advances

Posted December 10, 2012 - 1:21 pm

High-tech glasses are becoming more advanced and could one day give you options to get directions, place video calls or check into social networks.
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Google Ingress: How to save the world with your Android phone

Posted December 4, 2012 - 4:28 pm

If you'd been hanging around Kendall Square in Cambridge this weekend, you might have seen a brave freedom fighter lurking near MIT, battling nefarious paranormal forces, windchill and GPS problems. That was me.
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Cool app combines maps with live video

Posted November 14, 2012 - 2:10 pm

From Japan: Using augmented reality with mapping to better navigate around.
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Google Glass - The way of the future or the next Apple Newton?

Posted November 2, 2012 - 8:00 am

Time Tech recently announced their Best Inventions of 2012 list and included in the list is Google Glass, Google’s augmented reality eyewear project. This almost cliche looking piece of futuristic hardware has the potential to become as ubiquitous as cell phones or laptops. At least that’s the plan.
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These Kinect-style augmented reality goggles can land you a date (but not a real one)

Posted July 21, 2012 - 7:05 am

If you're feeling a little lonely, technology is always there to help. Not only can you meet people via social networks, you could also create a robot that sits on your shoulder so your friends can virtually follow you wherever you go. But if that isn't enough for you, you can take it one step further and make an augmented reality (AR) girlfriend.
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Canon shows augmented-reality platform with head-mounted displays

Posted June 28, 2012 - 10:48 am

The company will target the platform at manufacturers in Japan initially, then expand abroad
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AT&T predicts secure world with brainwave authentication, augmented reality glasses

Posted June 18, 2012 - 10:28 am

Remember those prediction ads from AT&T in the '90s with the "You Will" tagline? AT&T brings that back with this take on future security methods.
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'Portal' gun hits the real world

Posted June 12, 2012 - 3:00 pm

One big fan of the video game Portal has figured out how to bring the legendary wormhole-creating, character-teleporting Portal gun out of a game and into real life. The video is undoubtedly cool; the only question left is, how is he going to fix all those holes in his house?
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Sesame Street moves augmented reality from back alley to main street

Posted May 9, 2012 - 10:16 am

The 2012 Augmented Reality Event conference in Santa Clara is playing host to the Sesame Street characters—as well as some pop-up style animated books and apps for the classroom.
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Movies come to life via iPad virtual reality app

Posted April 27, 2012 - 11:09 am

Augmented reality lets you watch animated dinosaurs from a movie poster.
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Look out, Google, Oakley's developing its own smart glasses

Posted April 21, 2012 - 7:26 am

Google might want to use its new smart glasses prototype to look over its shoulder
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Bing translator app gets cool augmented reality tool

Posted April 21, 2012 - 7:26 am

Microsoft has just unveiled the most practical use of augmented reality (AR) technology to date, at least for globetrotters.
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Google's Project Glass made real in a DIY augmented reality project

Posted April 14, 2012 - 7:41 am

Last week, Google showed off the best vision for the future of augmented reality that we've seen with its Project Glass. As incredible as the video was, it was still just a concept video, so I mostly wrote it off as pipe-dream technology that's still years away from feasibility.
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Philadelphia newspaper adds augmented reality via iPad app

Posted April 3, 2012 - 10:41 am

Augmented reality added to physical newspaper, but couldn't people just go to the website with their phone or tablet?
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NASA set to market headset that lets pilots (and drivers?) see through fog

Posted March 19, 2012 - 2:36 pm

Think your phone is smart because it can translate pictures of signs, overlay directions on roads you can't identify and tell you where the nearest good coffee (or Starbucks) is? NASA's version is designed to let you land a 747 with all the windows covered in spray paint.
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Beamatron combines Kinect with projectors for augmented reality awesomeness

Posted March 13, 2012 - 5:30 pm

System can project virtual items onto physical objects and have them react.
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Microsoft preps universal translator easier to carry than in Dr. Who or Star Trek

Posted March 12, 2012 - 2:19 pm

Microsoft Research shows off software designed to translate voices and text from real- and virtual-world sources without losing speaker's voice. If it works, Google Translate will have [nothing nada, rien, ingenting, ei mitaan, niente, Ничего] on Microsoft
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Augmented reality makes a splash in Barcelona

Posted February 29, 2012 - 5:46 pm

Augmented Reality companies are causing crowds to gather in Barcelona. The technology still includes image-based elements, but true 3D recognition technology is growing, and the demand for content is there.
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NYT relies on anonymous sources to break critical 'wearable' iPhone

Posted December 19, 2011 - 5:01 pm

Sources who'd rather not admit they work at Apple revealed to the New York Times that the company is working on a new generation of wearable smartphone products that sound as if they're designed to get consumers to buy more pieces of Apple to get the same set of functions.
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Advent Calendar goes virtual, 3D

Posted December 12, 2011 - 7:01 pm

Aurasma, which wowed the crowd at this year's DEMOfall event with its augmented reality application for the iPad, is back with another application, just in time for the holidays.
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Magic mixing with technology creates new illusions

Posted November 4, 2011 - 2:17 pm

The latest TEDTalk video podcast shows a presentation by Marco Tempest, an illusionist who shows some of the latest advances in technology and magic to basically create a stick figure to life and do all sorts of fun things.
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A video game you can drive

Posted August 5, 2011 - 12:00 pm

Watch out for that tree!
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