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All of us will soon be able to tap into digital technology in ways that will allow us to embrace our digital sixth sense.
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Roald Dahl would probably have loved AR and bringing his books to life. I'm sure he would have also delighted in adding some 'easter eggs' to his stories. I wonder if anyone will pick up on that. His museum could be an interesting visit with AR Glasses. Delete the scoop?
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CrowdOptic, a startup with technology for identifying where people are pointing their smartphone cameras, has raised another $1 million in funding. Delete the scoop?
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Say you’re planning a big trip to New York. You want to get in touch with friends to go to a movie or a concert while you’re in the Big Apple, but can’t remember exactly which of your Facebook friends lives there. Via FLITTER
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TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.
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Last week I received a massive pile of Direct Mail in my letter box. I didn't even open most of it it. Do you? Marketing and creative people put a lot of effort into creating it, it was printed, pa...
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I didn't understand what this product even was fro the junk mail and if I hadn't been motivated to go and seek out the web page, I still wouldn't know and File 13 would just be that little bit fuller.
This is a sitter for the new soluion Imersia is developing which combines Augmented Reality with video and with location based services to help you go find the product once you've decided its worth your time and effort to check it out. Have a read of the story and watch the video to see what I mean. Delete the scoop?
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@jennydeluxe re: Glass, class issues go beyond affordability. augmented reality where those outside graph don't exist http://t.co/AhFiWwVnJW
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André Meyer, a student and developer at MIT Innovation AG, talks about and demonstrates TouchMountain. This innovative application makes awesome use of augme...
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Nice to see it on a Windows Phone with help from Nokia. Delete the scoop?
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Augmented Reality: curved screens and flexible displays
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There's no question that curved screens are coming, the question to me is where and how will they really add value. Maybe I'll have a curved screen as an advertisement on the side of my car. I can't see me wanting a curved eBook reader other than as a space saver that I can roll it up in my bag. I'd rather have one I can fold up and put in my shirt pocket, more like ePaper, as long as it doesn't have kinks in it when I unfold it.
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Google was granted a patent that will bring its services into a driver's augmented reality dream - or potential nightmare.
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This reminds me a lot of the Daniel Suarez books Daemon and Freedom. I like this. This speaks to Google's strengths, but certainly in my part of the world they do not appear to have an effective routing engine with basic features I would expect from a car navigation system.
Things like road class, speed zone, turn restrictions, dirt roads and more. There are also issues of currency of data, new roads or highways just opened, major changes to roads etc.
A quality car nav system needs to have all of this data updated a number of times a year. Nevertheless, I would love to have Heads Up Display (HUD) on my windscreen that looked like this. Delete the scoop?
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Image recognition and augmented reality trigger larger share of mobile ...
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Have you heard of mobile activated print? You may well be using it very soon! Delete the scoop?
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Business success means mastering the six layers of customer engagement. Are you ready? (RT: Augmented reality is fun.
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Great blog and would have loved to attend the presentation, but I probably wasn't in Chatanooga at the right time:) Great graphic too. Delete the scoop?
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First coined in 1990 by Tom Caudell, a researcher at aircraft manufacturer Boeing, ‘augmented reality’ used to refer to a head-mounted digital display worn by aircraft technician to guide them in the assembly of electrical wires in aircrafts.Today,...
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Commercially AR has huge potential for business, especialy engineering and technical onsite support. Delete the scoop?
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Founded in 1905, ADO Den Haag is one of the leading football teams in the Dutch national league. Together with marketing and communications … (@CeesHogendoorn @UWMERKWAARDIG: UM!
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There are lots of opportunities for sports clubs interaction using Augmented Reality. We have several concepts just waiting for a code to discuss with us. Delete the scoop?
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BooksARalive. Augmented Reality Children's Books.Hi children's books lovers!! From May 13 to 19, 2013 we're celebrating Children's Book Week.
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Google's Project Glass is getting closer to reality for consumers. Here's a closer look at the augmented reality glasses. (Fed up with The Way Things Are? Delete the scoop?
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Here's an interesting take on using augmented reality alongside hobby electronics.
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When MIT start thinking about how you can augment the real world using WiFi and Arduino, some very cool things start happening. Watch this 3 minute video to see how they add new controls to a radio, a door, a light switch and connect devices together using AR.
Remove the AR element and the programming remains on the analogue switches. This is so cool and helps bring the potential of AR into practical applications.
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Mobile Action Codes: Image Recognition and Augmented Reality Emerging http://t.co/VzjXxEFsEm
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It would appear we are on the right track! Delete the scoop?
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Augmented Reality & the Move to the World of Flat Surfaces - 05/03/2013 (Nice read by @chuckmartin on #AR http://t.co/EgjYv36uxJ)
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We agree on the immediate opportunity on flat surfaces as outlined in our blog on Junk Mail. http://imersianz.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/junk-mail-rocks/ But this is just one area and we ar working on several opportunities in the real world. Delete the scoop?
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augmented reality into the living room of a home using a combination of a projector and a Kinect camera. The purpose would be to enhance the environment (#AR - next big topic Augmented reality IllumiRoom from Microsoft will one day bring AR home...
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This is potentially huge for gaming, especially MMOG's. Reminds me of the early days of Ninetendo on big Plasma screens. This will drive additional hardware sales and gamers will love it! Delete the scoop?
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A new dimension has been added to make graffiti interactive, enabling people to see virtual objects or additional info.
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This is extremely cool, street art is awesome on its own, but now its coming to life! 
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May 1, 7:10 AM
Simply amazing... lots of opportunities out there, with this stuff. Can't wait to see it in action!
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@Oakley, @Sony, @EpsonAmerica and @ZealOptics are paving their mark in the world of augmented reality glasses http://t.co/DQyBCsRSw1
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Look out for them, here will be many options. Everyone's going to be wearing glasses next year!. Delete the scoop?
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With new devices allowing two photos a minute to be taken automatically, critics warn that over-sharing could be mean people become unwitting subjects of surveillance. (Memoto.
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Do you have a photographic memory? Now you don't need to rely on your brain.
Twice a minute may be excessive, but as an example of benefits, I used Foursquare during a recent road trip in the USA and it was very valuable going back through my photos to remember where I had been. Having taken hundreds of photos over a few thousand miles at places I had never been to before, it just made it so easy for me to recall where they were taken, what I was doing and so on.
What does this have to do with Augmented Reality? Using AR glasses, a smartphone or another device to capture information, you can not only create a diary or record of things you see and hear, but you can also access information and impressions at locations of what other people have seen and heard through applications now under development.
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SpaceWalking is an augmented-reality app that brings the Solar System down to Earth (RT @russeltarr)Recommended Link from Russel Tarr at www.activehistory.co.uk (RT @russeltarr: SpaceWalking is an augmented-reality app that brings the Solar System down to Earth: http://t.co/uufykoMXIn)...
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This is a great example of using AR to make education more fun. Delete the scoop?
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90-Year-Old Grandmother Tries The Oculus Rift – ... (In the adorable, 90 year old grandma tries augmented reality http://t.co/CRkCbJiQ5g #tech)
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Orange, France Télévisions Editions Numériques and production group Telfrance have struck a technological partnership to test an augmented reality project based on France 3's popular daily series Plus Belle la Vie.
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I got asked recently whether Augmented Reality could be used on broadcast TV. My answer was a clearn and resounding yes. It appears I'm not alone in these thoughts. Delete the scoop?
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I've been looking into solutions for people with dementia (Alzheimers is the most well known, but there are many forms of dementia) and so far have struggled to find a good solution.
We are intrested in partnering with the right businesses to come up with a solution for New Zealand. Mostly rest homes and retirement villages use RF bracelets and necklaces with RF. These are not directional, do not use GPS and have a limited range. Rest homes and retirement villages do not generally have any technology that alerts them if someone leaves a perimeter or geofence and finding people requiers expensive resources, i.e. SAR volunteers or professionals who will walk aroun with a directional handheld YAGI antenna.
Elderly people are habitual and it isn't easy to get them to wear a device like a necklace or watch, if it is not the sort of thing they would usually wear. If they go for a walk, they may well not have a handbag with them, so no point having something they will carry.
Whilst this will change over time, these people mostly do not have a mobile phone, so a smartphone isn't a great solution.
I have been looking at very well constructed portable devices, which include features such as drop sensors and GPS. Again these devices, whilst getting much smaller, require that the person carries them when they leave their home. If they have dementia, they may not even know that they have such a device.
Because it requires possible daily charging, a caregiver needs to take care of that. Plugging them in requries a degree of dexterity that some elderly people do not have. This can be solved with devices that can be placed on a charging mat and don't have to be plugged in, but this also requires caregiver supervision.
We hope to hook up with device manufacturers and health companies to come up with a solution suitable for tracking of elderly people and people with similar needs for New Zealand and Australia. It is a difficult problem and one that not only generates large costs, but more importantly anxiety for people who get lost and disoriented and major worries for their families and friends.