augmented reality

Augmented reality lets you watch animated dinosaurs from a movie poster.

Microsoft has just unveiled the most practical use of augmented reality (AR) technology to date, at least for globetrotters.

Augmented reality added to physical newspaper, but couldn't people just go to the website with their phone or tablet?

System can project virtual items onto physical objects and have them react.

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.

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.

Watch out for that tree!

Microsoft's Kinect used to keep women's clothes on while they try on other clothes.

Augmented Reality technology is really fun to watch - it's the ability to overlay physical space with digital information. It's not just virtual reality, but something where the world of information merges with physical objects to create a larger whole. Keiichi Matsuda has this video showing what a typical morning may look like in the augmented world.

'Future PCs' might be lighter and simpler; more likely they'll be all but invisible and so integral to your life it's hard to tell whether you make the decisions or it does.

The augmented reality trend in iOS apps often teeters between an awkward gimmick and an awesome way to fight the Empire. But what if you could turn that trend towards helping people? What if, for example, you could use the iPhone to help people with color blindness?

Google Goggles (free) is an ambitious Augmented Reality (AR) app that uses your Android smartphone camera as input, then tries to match the captured image with relevant search results. When you see something interesting, such as a restaurant or a landmark, and decide you want to know more about it, you can whip out your Android phone and snap a picture. Google Googles then goes to work to serve up information about the restaurant or landmark--often, however, with very mixed results. But when it is used properly, Goggles can be quite useful.