Apr 29
Posted by mLearnCon Staff
Categories: Augmented Reality , Google/Android
Augmented Reality App developer Layar has released a new version of its app for Apple iOS and Google Android platforms. The new Layar 5.0 app brings a couple of new features with animation capabilities and most importantly the ability to share content over Facebook and Twitter. The Android and iOS devices owners can download the app fromhere or the respective app stores.
Augmented Reality is a new technology that integrates graphics and computer generated environments into real-world through mobile phones or other imaging interface. Recently, the advent of Augmented Reality on mobile phones has been tapped with several mobile augmented reality applications. Layar is like an augmented reality browser that integrates location-relevant data and shows them on a live imagery being captured using mobile camera.
Read more and check out the screenshots from TechTree.com here
Apr 1
Posted by mLearnCon Staff
Categories: Augmented Reality , Smartphone
Copenhagen Airport is to launch a new smartphone app that allows passengers to pull up information about their terminal using augmented reality.
The app, set to be released in the coming weeks, is unique in its ability to use an augmented reality display, which can normally only be used outdoors with a GPS signal, while inside the terminal to show airport features overlaid on the camera display.
It will mean that passengers will be able to hold up their phone to find out about surrounding shops, restaurants and services, as well as being able to get directions to their gate.
The technology, which uses wifi and signal strength triangulation to pinpoint passengers inside the terminal, is a world first, according to the developer, aviation technologist SITA.
Read the full article from The Independent here
Mar 29
Posted by mLearnCon Staff
Categories: Augmented Reality , Smartphone
Check out a couple of mobile Augmented Reality examples, and the rest of the slideshow of cool apps from Business Insider here
Wikitude points you to Wikipedia entries near you using geo-location
AR: Augmented Car Finder will never let you lose track of your parked car again
Check out the real cool slideshow from Business Insider here
Mar 17
Posted by mLearnCon Staff
Categories: Apple/iPhone/iPad , Augmented Reality , Tablet
The iPad 2 is getting all sorts of praise, but something interesting is emerging: Are its light weight, large screen and twin cameras perfectly positioned to make the iPad an Augmented Reality giant?
Augmented Reality apps have slowly proliferated on smartphones, bringing a novelty and genuine usefulness to some data streams that are overlaid on reality through the device's rear cameras, but now there are tablet computers with rear cameras, too. Freshest, and perhaps most potent, among the list of tablets is the iPad 2, and already some AR apps have surfaced for it.
Read this article with comprehensive videos from Fast Company here
Sep 9
Danish designer Mads Hindhed has created glasses that instantly take spoken speech, converts it into readable text, and project them onto the inside of glasses.
The tech is called "BabelFisk," which is Danish for "Babel Fish"--not to be confused with Yahoo!'s Babel Fish translation site (hey there, impending Yahoo! law suit). This tech is designed to bring the hearing impaired into any conversation. And that's going to help a lot of people.
Read all about it HERE
