Think that only a tech giant like Google can make next generation augmented-reality glasses?
An augmented-reality app that "translates" grown-up newspapers for children has been developed in Japan.
The DanKam, an augmented-reality app for iPhone and Android, works on the same principle.
Meanwhile, a design collective from France developed a garment that uses augmented-reality technology and evolves with its wearer in real time.
An augmented-reality marker representing the port or airlock will then be overlaid on the image sent back to their handset by the drone's cameras.
It's called Cast AR, and it's a pair of 3D augmented-reality glasses that she and fellow co-worker Rick Johnson were developing at Valve before leaving.
Announced last year, Google Glass is an augmented-reality headset that looks like a thin pair of eyeglasses and can be controlled by voice commands.
Google got some time in the spotlight this week too, as the company's new augmented-reality glasses were trotted down the runway at New York Fashion Week.
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Augmented-reality glasses are sure to become the buzz over the next few years, especially with Google suggesting that commercial versions of their Glass would be available in 2013.
Nintendo 3DS comes with six augmented-reality cards, called AR cards.
There is much excitement in tech circles about augmented-reality apps.
But few new products have captured the imagination of the tech-minded such as Google Glass, an eyewear-like headset that offers augmented-reality images as well as basic smartphone-like features.
This kind of test may even find its way in an augmented-reality device like Google Glass by tracking eye movements as an image moves across the field of view, as a recently uncovered patent suggests.
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Last Jan. 20, I spotted a guy on the New York City subway wearing what looked like Google Glass, which at the time was a mysterious new augmented-reality gadget that looked like a pair of glasses and supposedly put hands-free smartphone tech literally in front of your eyes.
But the emergence of its younger, more attractive cousin -- augmented reality (AR) -- in an age when computers are all-pervasive and understanding of them is widespread, means that we might, at long last, be ready to take the plunge.
Two of its representatives spoke at the TED Global conference in Edinburgh on Tuesday about how their one-year-old company was aiming to become a platform for sharing augmented reality-style content through mobile phones.
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Along with a new Sphero Augmented Reality SDK available today on Github, Orbotix has created a new Sphero Augmented Reality plug-in for Unity, a flexible development platform used to make intelligent, interactive 3D and 2D content.
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It's joined by the LG GD880 we previously spotted in the wild, along with a slew of phones headed for Vodafone, including the Compass slider, and the Krystal (pictured after the break), which apparently packs displays on both sides and some augmented reality-type features (like on the fly translation of newspapers).
That means developing tech like an augmented reality heads-up display, currently in pre-development, which uses laser projected imagery to make it look like navigational arrows actually appear on the road, not on a separate GPS screen.
The firm also updated its mapping technology to feature "City Lens" - an augmented reality app that overlays information about nearby restaurants and other points of interest over live footage of the surrounding area captured by the device's camera.
Various technologies such as augmented reality, multi-modal interactions, gesture based interfaces, surface computing etc. are means to achieve immersive interaction experiences for end customers.
As before, the headset is decidedly industry-facing, targeting product prototypers with an augmented reality system that lets designers interact with computer-generated versions of their creations before actually willing them into existence.
The glasses will be able to connect to Wi-Fi and incorporate augmented reality into gaming.
And more mobile gamers are moving thanks to location-based games and augmented reality.
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In the next few years, some amazing things like Google Glass will allow you to do everything in real-time with constant augmented reality.
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Valve Software's experiments with virtual reality, most recently exposed as a " VR Mode" of its popular free-to-play shooter Team Fortress 2, are actually just an offshoot of the company's longer-term goal: augmented reality.
The update adds a Reality Scanner feature that helps finding points of interest close-by, presenting them in an augmented reality view.
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Then it made more of its driver-less car technology and augmented reality (Google glasses) and we started to sit up and listen to Google once more.
One area where mobile and cloud computing converge is augmented reality, which allows computer-generated content to be superimposed over a live camera view of the real world.
This research and development project consists of a hands-free, head-mounted display that uses augmented reality to give you a whole new screen (i.e. the physical world in front of you) on which to display information.
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