Augmented Reality

4. August 2009 | 14:39

Gamer Society AR Girls Give You A Hot Augmented Reality Lap Dance On Your Desk

Lionsgate promotes the upcoming movie Gamer with some fun and sexy Augmented Reality experience with the Society AR Girls website. The Restricted (age over 18) service lets you control a 3D scantily glad girl on your desk with a printed icon. All you ne… (News Source: I4U - 06:59:32)

P&G Tries Augmented Reality

NEW YORK Procter & Gamble is testing the waters for augmented reality, a form of digital technology that’s driving a new campaign for Always Infinity. The packaged-goods giant hopes to give consumers ways to interact with its ads like never before. (News Source: AdWeek - 08:26:37)

Augmented Reality Twitter is the Coolest Thing Ever

…but unfortunately not available in the iPhone App Store just yet. It all started last month with TwittARound , an application for the iPhone 3GS that uses the GPS, compass and camera to show where Tweets are coming from. As the stunning video below shows, Tweets are overlaid on the landscape, augmenting your view of the world. Twittaround hasn’t made it into the iPhone App Store yet: the iPhone … (News Source: Mashable - 10:44:25)

Five Addictive Augmented Reality Gaming Apps

Their games, your world: The next generation of AR gaming promises play in the environments of our choosing. Killing zombie hordes on your kitchen table. Speaking to a ghost in your bedroom. Such is the promise of augmented reality gaming. AR gaming is here, because the current generation of mobile phones feature cameras good enough to properly capture the world as well as processors powerful … (News Source: Fast Company Magazine - 19:23:56)

iPhone App Trends: Music, Health and Augmented Reality

This weekend, developers, UI designers and testers combined forces to share ideas and collaborate at the third annual iPhone Dev Camp . The event encourages individuals at all levels to continue to stretch the development boundaries of the iPhone and iPod touch. The event’s Hackathon competition offers an exhibition of attendee projects and is a showcase of some of the industry’s brightest … (News Source: ReadWriteWeb - 06:27:35)

Five Groundbreaking Augmented Reality Socializing Apps

The next generation of social-media powered AR apps will make it easier to create connections in meatspace. We’ll have to wait a bit longer for augmented reality-based apps to be available on the iPhone and Android platforms (word is that after Apple releases its 3.1 software update in September , we’ll see a flood of AR apps in the App Store). In the meantime, we’re gathering our wish lists for … (News Source: Fast Company Magazine - 12:13:50)

Is ‘Augmented Reality’ the Next Big Thing?

Until recently, augmented reality existed mainly in movies like The Minority Report and computer science labs at universities, where technologists grappled with comically clunky headgear. (News Source: BrandWeek - 15:30:02)

PS3’s Augmented Reality Pet Game Is Like Your Own Pokemon [PS3]

Augmented reality will soon be coming to games with Sony’s EyePet for PS3. Kotaku took the game for a spin and were pretty impressed with how all the elements came together. Players interact with… (News Source: Gizmodo - 03:05:55)

Review: ‘Addicted to Beauty’

Revolving around a La Jolla spa, the Oxygen series can seem less a reality show than an infomercial. If American pop culture had a garage sale, it would look something like Oxygen’s “Addicted to Beauty.” (News Source: Los Angeles Times - 01:59:47)

Week in Apple: Google drama, security, jailbreaking, and more

This week’s top Apple news highlighted the (in)security of the new iPhone’s hardware encryption, Google Voice’s mysterious disappearance from the App Store, more Apple tablet rumors, Apple’s plans to “resurrect” the album on iTunes, and more. Need to catch up? We have the roundup right here. Augmented reality coming to iPhone with iPhone OS 3.1 : Developers should be able to use official APIs in … (News Source: Ars Technica - 21:11:16)

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