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Nintendo 3DS games detailed: Nintendogs, Steel Diver, more

, Feb 22nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Nintendo has confirmed its launch day line-up of Nintendo 3DS games, an 18-strong list including Nintendogs + Cats, Steel Diver and Pilotwings Resort. Each will be priced at $39.99 - the 3DS itself will be $249.99 when it hits the US on March 27 - and Nintendo confirms that more than 30 new titles will follow in-between then and E3 2011 in June. Read The Full Story

USA Today brings augmented reality Super Bowl coverage to Android and iPhone

, Feb 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

I haven't purchased a newspaper since college and I only did it then because we had to get them for class. I get all my news for the web today and I bet a lot of you are the same way. USA Today has announced that it will be offering up some cool augmented reality coverage of the Super Bowl that might have a bunch of us buying the paper to check it out. Read The Full Story

Layar Player Now Available for iPhone – Makes Augmented Reality Your Reality

, Feb 2nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Dutch company Layar has released their Layar Player on iTunes, giving the users the opportunity to experience AR (augmented reality) within their iPhone apps. The tool allows developers to incorporate AR into their apps easily. Read The Full Story

TagCandy Uses Augmented Reality to Change the Way we Eat Candy [Video]

, Jan 14th 2011 Discuss [0]

Engineering students at Keio University's Yasuaki Kakehi Laboratory in Japan have set their sights on candy. Using a sort of augmented reality, based on sound and sensors, the students have created a new way for people to eat, and enjoy, candy. With a demonstration on video, the students have high hopes for their device, which can give you the sensation of biting into an apple the next time you put a sucker in your mouth. Read The Full Story

Occipital Finds Augmented Reality Capabilities Within Mobile Safari for iOS 4.2

, Dec 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

With iOS 4.2 still fresh in the market, and on iDevices, there's no surprise that people are still stumbling onto new aspects of the latest version of Apple's popular mobile Operating System. And while Augmented Reality may not be the one feature that's on the tip of everyone's tongue, it's still interesting to see new ways that the technology can be implemented in our devices. Thanks to a company called Occipital, we now know that the gyroscope within the latest version of the iPhone, as well as the newest model of iPod Touch, can be used to bring some AR-based fun times. Read The Full Story

Word Lens for iPhone auto-translates foreign text in real-time [Video]

, Dec 17th 2010 Discuss [3]

Ladies and Gentlemen, the future is here: at least, a future as partly imagined by Douglas Adams. Word Lens for iPhone and iPod touch takes augmented reality and makes it actually useful, performing real-time instant translations of text as seen through the Apple devices' video camera and overlaying your choice of language on-screen. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

iPhone Conrolled Parrot AR.Drone Quadricopter Gets Augmented Reality Chase Game for iOS

, Nov 21st 2010 Discuss [3]

This game is called AR.Pursuit and it'll make controlling your flying machine all the more fantastic with augmented reality - available at the end of November in the Apple App Store. It's a two-player game where you control your AR.Drone VS a friend's, blasting away at them with missiles and machine guns, playing cat and dog in a real world / virtual reality world simulation. It's so weird! It's so wild! It looks like so much fun! Read The Full Story

Hasbro my3D brings 3D gaming, movies and AR to iPhone

, Nov 9th 2010 Discuss [4]

Someone at Hasbro has obviously been digging through the internet archives and decided that what iPhone and iPod touch users are crying out for is a 3D viewer for their Apple device. The Hasbro my3D is a stereoscopic viewer that your iPhone slots into, showing entertainment, gaming and other content in 3D. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review – Week 41 2010

, Oct 17th 2010 Discuss [2]

This was a big week for mobile phone fans with the unveiling and leaks of hoards of Windows Phone 7 handsets. Among those handsets was the HTC HD7 also known as the Schubert. The specs of the handset leaked Monday. T-Mobile's pricing for the Samsung Galaxy Tab in the US also leaked early in the week. The device will be $399 with a new contract after a $50 MIR or $649 sans contract. Read The Full Story

Vuzix WRAP 920AR augmented reality glasses now shipping

, Oct 11th 2010 Discuss [2]

If you are a fan of augmented reality gear, you may recall the Vuzix augmented reality glasses called the Wrap 920AR. We first spied the glasses back in January and then we spent a bit of hands on time with the 920AR at CES. If you liked the glasses and wanted a set for yourself the good news is that the things are finally shipping. Read The Full Story

The Daily Slash: October 6th 2010

, Oct 6th 2010 Discuss [0]

With CTIA officially kicked off, it was a pretty busy few hours there earlier this afternoon. And with more events planned, and some not even at CTIA, it looks like the rest of the week is going to be just as busy. In our story caught from around the Web, NTT DoCoMo and Olympus have teamed up to create some Augmented Reality glasses. And then, as we usually do around this time of the night, we'll wrap up what's happening around the R3 Media Network. Read The Full Story

Qualcomm Augmented Reality SDK for Android released

, Oct 4th 2010 Discuss [0]

Qualcomm's augmented reality photo frames were perhaps the most memorable demo from the company's IQ 2010 event last month, and as promised they're releasing the necessary SDK for developers to do something similar themselves.  The Qualcomm Augmented Reality SDK for Android uses vision rather than GPS to anchor on-screen graphics to real-world objects, as with the company's Rock 'Em Sock 'Em robots game. Read The Full Story
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