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Mashable - Blog - 10 Awesome Uses of Augmented Reality Marketing - 2 views
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Visuals are an important part of advertising, so it's not surprising that so many companies have jumped on the augmented reality bandwagon, offering tools that visualize their products in a magical and memorable way. Here we take a look at some pretty amazing promotional uses of this new tech that work with common webcams, giving everyone a chance to experience augmented reality - a trend that will be big in 2010.
Augmented Reality - Explained by Common Craft - 5 views
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An introduction to a new technology that adds a layer of useful information to computer and smartphone camera screens
Gesture-Based Computing - 5 views
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Devices that can accept multiple simultaneous inputs (like using two fingers on the Apple iPhone or the Microsoft Surface to zoom in or out) and gesture-based inputs like those used on the Nintendo Wii have begun to change the way we interact with computers.
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Gesture-based computing allows users to engage in virtual activities with motion and movement similar to what they would use in the real world.
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A number of mobile applications use gestures. Mover lets users flick files from one phone to another; Shut Up, an app from Nokia, silences the phone when the user turns it upside down; nAlertme, an antitheft app, sounds an alarm if the phone isn't shaken in a specific, preset way:
GM's Awesome Augmented Reality Windshield [VIDEO] - 4 views
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an ordinary windshield into an augmented reality information dashboard.
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improve safety
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advance knowledge behind the wheel
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Mobile Computing - 4 views
Bill MacKenty - Educational Technology - 3 views
Visual Data Analysis - 3 views
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facilitates human-data interaction by highlighting patterns, anomalies and alert conditions in reporting views...tables of data ready for human consumption.
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Some of these tools, such as Visokio Omniscope, are powerful hybrid desktop/web visualisation clients that can replace spreadsheets, presentation packages like PowerPoint, and create portable, reusable data files anyone can access, navigate and filter using a free viewer.
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enables data to be interpreted holistically by exposing contextually meanful attributes of the data set such as patterns, trends, structure, and exceptions.
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Visual data analysis facilitates human-data interaction by highlighting patterns, anomalies and alert conditions in reporting views...tables of data ready for human consumption. Visual data analysis enables data to be interpreted holistically by exposing contextually meanful attributes of the data set such as patterns, trends, structure, and exceptions. Visual data analysis may build upon prior logical processing via mathematical formulas, artificial intelligence or other automated mechanisms for analysis and improving data quality. Strictly speaking, visual data analysis primarily focuses on visual presentation of tabular views ready for human consumption.
100 Excellent Open Access Journals for Educators | Online College Tips - Online Colleges - 3 views
Free Technology for Teachers: Augmented Reality in Plain English - 5 views
The future, it is all a Gesture - Bruce On Games - 3 views
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technology continues to roll on and mankind has used it’s ingenuity to come up with a whole new sort of man/machine interface. It is called Gesture. And it is not an acronym, it really does mean interfacing by human gesture. And it is one of the hottest areas of technology just now.
Wikibooks - 3 views
TED Blog: Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense on TED.com - 2 views
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This demo, from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT (and spearheaded by her student Pranav Mistry), was the buzz of TED2009. Sixth Sense is a wearable device with a projection screen that paves the way for profound, data-rich interaction with our environment. Imagine Minority Report and then some. (Recorded in February 2009 in Long Beach, California. Duration: 08:42.)