Tag Archives : Augmented Reality

A Montreal based startup, Hololabs is coming up with an iPhone app called the MixAR App, which will enable users to create 3D objects in augmented reality without any knowledge of coding. Basically people will be able to take pictures that will convert into 3D and which can be later on overlaid in AR and recorded as video. So now anybody will be able [...]

A newly launched startup company, GoldRun, has now shaken the world of marketing to its very roots as it has launched an all new marketing strategy using the cutting edge augmented reality (AR) technology, to ensure that the brands get as much exposure as possible and the consumers can have an enhanced shopping experience. GoldRun, that was launched [...]

Quest Visual has just released Word Lens, a new iPhone app that instantly translates Spanish text into English and vice versa, via the medium of augmented reality. It is heartening to see that augmented reality is starting to move away from marketing gimmicks it was used for to becoming useful tool. Any technology takes time settling down. Initially [...]

A professor at Keio University in Japan, Adrian K. Cheok, is developing a technology that will work with electrical impulses applied directly to the brain, causing the body to experience sensations of touch and taste via electronic means such as internet and mobile. Professor Cheok is developing an augmented reality technology that uses electrical [...]

After Apple’s hyper hyped iPhone made it on the retail shelves, folks just couldn’t stop churning apps and accessories. It seemed like everyone around wanted a piece of its fame. But FabLab Wallpaper isn’t a part of the similar chase instead it is top of the heap. You have seen unlocking your car or controlling your robot with your iPhone, its [...]

At the Consumer Electronics Show 2010 (CES), one of the foremost bluetooth products manufacturing companies, Parrot has introduced one of the coolest and most amazing Apple iPhone and iPod Touch accessory, called the Parrot AR.Drone. This one of a kind device is a modeled quadricopter that connects to an iPhone or iPod Touch via wifi and then can be [...]

CES 2009 is finally coming to a close Total Immersion was one of the few who dared to go beyond the usual. The company made use of Augmented Reality to create special effects. These special effects were created in real time and they just used a camera and a computer and they used the K’nex toy to create awesome images on the monitor. In fact, [...]