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"Harvest is an app that uses augmented reality to display custom information for people with allergies and special diets. This concept and prototype design aims to help millions with dietary restrictions due to health, ethical, or religious reasons."

WelcomeA community for the advancement of standards for AR has formed. As it is a grassroots initiative, there is no formal administrative structure for this community. These pages serve as a digital repository of information that the community gathers/contributes.

ODE is an open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics. It is fully featured, stable, mature and platform independent with an easy to use C/C++ API. It has advanced joint types and integrated collision detection with friction. ODE is useful for simulating vehicles, objects in virtual reality environments and virtual creatures.

People who were told to "cut down" a sequoia redwood in a 3-D forest were less likely to waste paper later, says  Stanford University graduate student Sun Joo Ahn, whose doctoral dissertation outlines the findings. "We found that virtual reality can change how people behave."

I don't even know where to start. I just finished reading Jane McGonigal's Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Penguin Group), and I feel like my chest might explode in frustration.

Starting in April, the Smithsonian is running Vanished, an alternate reality game that will put the "science" back in science-fiction, allowing players to work through the scientific process and explore a variety of disciplines. The young at heart can follow along with a special "watcher" account, but the full interactive experience is reserved for kids 11-14 years old.