Version 0.5 of the Epiphany Eyewear will contain a wifi chip, enabling the device to pair with a phone or tablet, sending the camera feed in real-time to a mobile Augmented Reality app or a social video app or to our site yougen.tv.
By crushing Nokia, Apple and Google took 5% out of the Finnish economy, wiped out the post-Psion, British OS Symbian, which had already found its way into over 350 million smartphones, and relegated Nokia to the status of struggling niche player, dependent on another US company, Microsoft, just at the point where it was going to write a new chapter in mobile, augmented reality and mapping.
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Google Glass and Vuzix (available this year) are essentially mobile computers that take augmented reality to the next stage.
More recently, it has branched into buzzy new areas such as augmented reality and mobile health initiatives.
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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.
He broke down how augmented reality would work on mobile devices.
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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Under Agile methodology, marketers are deploying their budgets and resources more intelligently, and looking actively for the best performance against their campaigns: taking advantage of the ever expanding number of social media sites, targeting users on mobile phones, and even exploring very early technologies like augmented reality.
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And more mobile gamers are moving thanks to location-based games and augmented reality.
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That kind of augmented reality is just what eBay has been tooling around with in its mobile division.
Other technologies such as QR codes, augmented reality and smartphone apps are already competing to make virtual shopping and mobile payments a reality.
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