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Aurasma augments the real world with real-time web updates

03/02/201203/02/2012 Guest Post

Barcelona, Spain: Aurasma, the world’s leading augmented reality platform, has announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC 12) a new feature that enables the real world to be merged with live, dynamic web updates. This announcement follows hot on the heels of Aurasma’s launch of its 3D engine at CES 12, since rolled out by commercial partners including Bandai – one of the world’s largest toy manufacturers. The new feature, powered by HTML5, allows partners to deliver live web updates augmented into the real world. When viewed with Aurasma, print, products…

Bodymetrics announces augmented reality fitting room for Consumer Electronics Show

01/11/2012 Stephen Vagus

Augmented reality is likely to be a big hit at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Several companies have already announced how they will be showing off the technology at the event. Many are attempting to bring more practicality to the technology, which has been used extensively as a gimmick for marketing campaigns. Bodymetrics, makers of body-mapping technologies, has announced that it too will be showing off its new augmented reality project at the conference. The company has teamed with PrimeSense, an Israeli technology company, to make…

Grid: A real-time augmented reality maze from Sahar Fikouhi

01/03/201201/03/2012 John Montgallo

Augmented reality continues to gain momentum in the gaming world. As the technology has grown more advanced, companies specializing in augmented reality, such as Metaio and Qualcomm, have released tools to help intrepid designers build their own AR experiences. Such is the case with Sahar Fikouhi, a computational designer and architect from London, UK. Fikouhi has developed a new game for the iPhone that plunges players into a world of staggering geometry and tasks them with navigating their way through a virtual maze. The game is called Grid and it…

Augmented reality developer Metaio releases new development tools for free

12/30/201112/30/2011 Jorge Gonzalez

Metaio, a German augmented reality developer, has recently released a sleuth of new software development kits (SDK) that will help users build their own augmented reality experience. The company has emerged as a formidable force in the augmented reality industry in recent years and believes that now is the time for more people to begin adopting the technology. Augmented reality can be a costly technology, however, as the software required to operate it is fairly advanced. Metaio’s new SDK’s are a first for the industry as they are completely free…

Top Gear magazine gets a high-tech upgrade with the help of augmented reality

12/10/201112/10/2011 Stephen Vagus

Top Gear magazine, the monthly publication of the acclaimed British car show Top Gear, has adopted augmented reality. The magazine has partnered with renown AR platform Aurasma in order to bring a new dimension to the publication. The December issue of the magazine is filled with several augmented reality experience, which readers can access by downloading the Aurasma mobile applications. These experiences include various highlights from the TV broadcast as well as behind the scenes interviews with famous guests and the show’s hosts. The app works by simply pointing a…