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Tag: Augmented Reality

Kinect Lightsaber Hack: First Kinect Star Wars Game (Sorta.)

Kinect Lightsaber Hack: First Kinect Star Wars Game (Sorta.)

The hacking possibilities for the Xbox 360 Kinect peripheral seem to keep growing every day. The latest hack to hit the inter-pipes: the Kinect lightsaber. Yankeyan used the OpenKinect drivers, along with…

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Star Wars Arcade Falcon Gunner: Augmented Reality Shooter

Star Wars Arcade Falcon Gunner: Augmented Reality Shooter

THQ will be releasing a Star Wars-themed first person shooter for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. I’m not sure if it’s one of the game modes or if there’s an option…

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Augmented Reality App Lets Women Try on Swimsuits Virtually

Augmented Reality App Lets Women Try on Swimsuits Virtually

Any man who has ever ended up shopping at the mall with his wife/girlfriend is very familiar with the guy chair. The lone chair sitting there so the guys outside the dressing…

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Flavor-Changing Meta Cookie: Willy Wonka Gets Real

Flavor-Changing Meta Cookie: Willy Wonka Gets Real

Stealing a page right out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this strange looking headgear turns a single cookie into one of seven different flavors. Scientist Tajuki Narumi and a team from…

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Real Life Auto: Your Life to Become a Series of Mini Games?

Real Life Auto: Your Life to Become a Series of Mini Games?

Rockstar’s hit formula for video games is CMU professor Jesse Schell’s vision of the future: a quantified life, where every activity is a game, with rewards and challenges. Wake up in the…

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Digital Cosmetic Mirror Lets You Try on Makeup Virtually: Life Imitating Rpg

Digital Cosmetic Mirror Lets You Try on Makeup Virtually: Life Imitating Rpg

Now this is something that a lot of women would like to have in their own homes: Japanese cosmetics company Shiseido installed a digital cosmetic mirror at the Takashimaya department store in…

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Augmented Reality Tattoo Can Fly Off!

Augmented Reality Tattoo Can Fly Off!

All this talk about augmented reality is cool, but this is a really cool application of this technology. The design basically involved tattooing a simple barcode onto someone’s arm. What happens next?…

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Only Gadgets Can Read the n Building’S Qr Code Facade

Only Gadgets Can Read the n Building’S Qr Code Facade

Are machine-readable codes the the future of advertising? Teradadesign and Qosmo worked together on the facade of the N building, a commercial building in one of Tokyo’s shopping districts. The team felt…

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Augmented Hyper(Reality): Pop-Up Ads Take Over Your Walls

Augmented Hyper(Reality): Pop-Up Ads Take Over Your Walls

When I first watched Keiichi Matsuda’s Augmented (hyper)Reality video, I wasn’t sure if I should be awed or frightened by his vision of the world that lies in front of us. Matsuda’s…

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Surfacescape Redefines Tabletop Gaming

Surfacescape Redefines Tabletop Gaming

Anything that starts out of a suggestion from Penny-Arcade’s Mike Krahulik & Jerry Holkins – aka Gabe & Tycho – is bound to be geeky, and this one is no exception. The…

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Dishpointer Augmented Reality iPhone 3gs App Helps You Find Satellites With Ease

Dishpointer Augmented Reality iPhone 3gs App Helps You Find Satellites With Ease

Ever try to install a satellite dish? Speaking from personal experience, I can say that finding the right line-of-sight from the dish to the skies can be a real pain in the…

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These Guys Want to Turn Your City Into a Zombie-Infested Wasteland

These Guys Want to Turn Your City Into a Zombie-Infested Wasteland

Would you survive a zombie attack? If the tech catches up to the idea, ARhrrrr might help you find out just how well-equipped you’d be. ARhrrrr is an Augmented Reality Game, currently…

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Mini Augmented Reality Ads Hit Newstands

Mini Augmented Reality Ads Hit Newstands

This amazing new advertisement for MINI uses augmented reality (AR) technology to create a truly interactive media piece out of a 2-dimensional magazine ad. Using AR tracking technology, as you hold the…

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Bandai Tuttuki Bako: Stick Your Finger in the Hole

Bandai Tuttuki Bako: Stick Your Finger in the Hole

This new interactive toy from Japan involves sticking your finger in a hole on the side of the box to interact with a virtual environment. Really. I’m not kidding. Bandai’s new Tuttuki…

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Portal Technology in the Real World

Portal Technology in the Real World

Inspired by the mind-bending transportation technology in last year’s sleeper hit game Portal, this video clip uses digital augmented reality technology to produce a similar effect in the real world. Created by…

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Change Your Clothes, Virtually.

Change Your Clothes, Virtually.

This amazing tech demo shows off an augmented reality system which can digitally swap out textures on clothing. While it sounds pretty simple, the ability to exactly mimic the behavior and appearance…

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