When it comes to Augmented Reality browsers on mobile devices, I always particularly liked Junaio (just one of the many AR tools created and maintained by Munich-based company Metaio). It's an especially appealing option since it's quite powerful, and has many, many content channels to choose from (a good side effect of their successful developer outreach - they have over 10,000 active content developers to date).I'll admit (and I've said this... full story ![]()

Apple has been awarded a patent today (via AppleInsider) that describes an augmented reality (AR) system that can tag real-world items in a live video stream and display information about them in a HUD overlay. It sounds exactly like Pop-Up video in practice: turn your device to focus on Rick Astley, for instance, and get a pop-up picture of the singer belting out "Never...
techcrunch.com (2 months and 2 days ago)

Adding to its previously released set of video eye-wear glasses, the Wrap 1200, Vuzix is now shipping the Wrap 1200AR. The AR (Augmented Reality) part of the tag is thanks to the addition of a stereoscopic camera pair mounted on the frames, which support VGA video capture at 30 frames per second and enable the display of 3D or 2D AR content...
gizmag.com (3 months and 3 days ago)
Augmented reality — looking at the world through an overlay of computer-generated information — was once the stuff of science fiction, but it's going mainstream and Canadians want a piece of the action.
cbc.ca (17 days ago)
Augmented reality has arrived for smartphones and advertising agencies have taken note. Blippar CEO Ambarish Mitra joins digits.
wsj.com (4 days ago)

It’s turning into a week of wearable computing, with Epson-partnered start-up Meta readying preorders for its true augmented reality headset. First revealed back in January, Meta offers a fully digitally-mediated view of the world – allowing for graphics, video, and text to be superimposed on real people and objects – rather than the Google Glass ...
slashgear.com (2 days ago)

Todd Humphreys and his students at the University of Texas in Austin are tired of waiting for augmented reality that meets the promise of the technology we've been hearing about and seeing in science fiction for years now. So they set out to build it themselves, and presented a very rough prototype for the first time at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW) in...
gizmag.com (2 months and 11 days ago)
Earlier this morning, we posted about the Meta 1 augmented reality headset - a rather unique pair of glasses that lets you play around with virtual 3D objects in the real world. Being right on schedule, the project has officially hit Kickstarter, with the goal of raising 100 grand in just 30 short days. Right ...
slashgear.com (2 days ago)

"How If Feels" video demonstration gives you a riding-shotgun tour of Google's new augmented reality glasses. ->
discovery.com (2 months and 28 days ago)
Google's startup division, Niantic Labs, is launching a line of ebooks that tie into its augmented-reality mobile game Ingress.
gigaom.com (2 months and 6 days ago)

Canon announced the launch of its MREAL system for "mixed reality" today, which includes a head-mounted display that allows wearers to combine virtual objects with the real world in 3D, which essentially sounds like a product designer's dream. On the consumer side, augmented reality hasn't done a great job of proving itself generally useful at this point, but in an...
techcrunch.com (2 months and 28 days ago)
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