“augmented reality,” where data from the network overlays your view of the real world
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New AR capabilities in Sony's about to be released PlayStation Vita. Very cool
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I've never seen something that can take objects form the real world and make it part of the game experience for characters to jump off and bullets can ricochet off of real worl items.
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Fantastic possibilities for entertainment and gaming. I can imagine doing a Parcour in my living room :-) It will be interesting to see who will invest the money and effort to bring this incredible technology to the educational area on portable gaming devices.
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developers are creating augmented reality applications and games for a variety of smartphones
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embraced a version of the technology to enhance their products and advertising campaigns.
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Tom Caudell, a researcher at aircraft manufacturer Boeing, coined the term “augmented reality” in 1990.
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he wants to be able to point a phone at a city it’s completely unfamiliar with, download the surroundings and output information on the fly.
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Mattel is using the same type of 3-D imaging augmented reality in “i-Tag” action figures f
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isn’t truly useful in a static desktop environment, Höllerer said, because people’s day-to-day realities involve more than sitting around all day
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And that’s why smartphones, which include GPS hardware and cameras, are crucial to driving the evolution of augmented reality.
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Ogmento, a company that creates augmented reality products for games and marketing
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movie posters will trigger interactive experiences on an iPhone, such as a trailer or even a virtual treasure hunt to promote the film.
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The Layar browser (video above) looks at an environment through the phone’s camera, and the app displays houses for sale, popular restaurants and shops, and tourist attractions
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it’s not truly real-time: The app can’t analyze data it hasn’t downloaded ahead of time.
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You know more, you find more, or you see something you haven’t seen before.
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Nokia is currently testing an AR app called Point & Find, which involves pointing your camera phone at real-world objects and planting virtual information tags on them
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This can be a really cool feature for teachers if they have a closed-group option. If you are part of the large network, there is all sorts of things people might plant that you don't want to see or know about... Another thought, if there is a closed-group option, perhaps this will create a whole new way of drug trafficking and helping illegal organizations hide information from authorities.
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place (real) Skittles on the physical map and shoot them to set off (virtual) bombs
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open API to access live video from the phone’s camera
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live tweets of mobile Twitter users around your location.
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When I was a little kid, a strange little kid, I believed this scenario was playing out and that I was the only human that ever existed...You too? This is a full matured approach to the UI and emersive properties of AR & VR. But as usual, the vision of this new world mirrors present paradigms just with futuristic technical applicatios...playing vinyl records and adjusting the rabbit-ears on their TV to watch Survivor Season 325