Heads Up AR Concept
Posted on Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Interesting heads up AR concept. Experience your computer screen when you get up in the morning. Concept shows calibrating by looking at certain points with your eyes. A long ways off and something like Minority Report (the part no one wants to come true) but a good look at an AR UI Design.
Posted by Spannungsbogen on YouTube. The poster is primarily a DJ/Producerbut he does have some serious 3D and artistic talent. You can find [...]
continue readingWaze Crowd-Sourced Mapping App
Posted on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Man the folks over at Waze have been pretty busy. What is Waze you ask? Well it’s a user-generated mapping application for the iPhone, Andriod phones, and even Windows Mobile phones. The interesting part is the social interaction in the app. Some very smart people have been enriching mapping content. The best part is the app is FREE.
The Waze team originates from Isreal. Where thier app created maps of the roads from their users driving. [...]
continue readingMicrosoft Introduces Windows Phone 7 Series
Posted on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Yesterday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain Microsoft introduced their next offering to the mobile OS platform. Windows Phone 7 Series. And I do have to say the design looks impressive.
Microsoft has taken a step back and started to innovate. They’ve looked at phones as a different kind of platform a small platform not a mini PC. Geometric design which has a clean simple look, using grey, blue, and white with the integration [...]
continue readingAugmented Reality on YELP iPhone App
Posted on Friday, August 28th, 2009
Augmented reality has hit the mainstream. The first AR app to make it to the iPhone app store was Metro Paris Subway by French developer PresseLite. Unfortunately you need to be in Paris to experience the AR features of the app.
Lucky for us, with the latest release of Yelp you can experience augmented reality on the iPhone 3GS for yourself. Yelp is a handy location based directory app for finding restaurants, bars, banks, etc. in [...]
continue readingBest Buy Uses Augmented Reality in Sunday Ad
Posted on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Best Buy jazzed up their normal Sunday circular this week with the presence of augmented reality.
The circular ad directs the consumer to a website (BestBuy3d.com.) At the website the consumer can hold up the back page of their circular and see a Toshiba laptop in augmented reality. By creating some engagement with their normal Sunday ad Best Buy is able to create a little buzz and bring their consumer a unexpected experience. Best Buy is [...]
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