How augmented reality glasses will really be used.

Related Google Glasses video

I can’t decide if this is a late April fools or real news.

Google has taken the wraps off techno-glasses which add emails, Google searches and even directions over your view of the world.
The glasses - unveiled via a Google Plus page, Project Glass, are voice-controlled, and offer GPS directions as well as email and video chat through a built-in screen directly in front of a user’s eyes.
The glasses are a product of Google’s ‘Google X’ blue-sky ideas lab - and the search giant is looking for ideas to improve them.

craigdaitch:

Nat Geo’s Augmented Reality Program with @appshaker

trendd:

This is a pretty cool idea, but beyond print, it will be interesting to see how they incorporate the 3D experience into their universal app. 

“[At] SXSW, Marvel announced a partnership with Autonomy’s Aurasma platform to lets users watch video trailers of books they see in stores, as well as 3D animation, recaps, and other augmented reality extras by holding their phones up to comics. That means 3D super heroes will soon be stepping out of your print books.”

(via Marvel and Aurasma Show Off New Line Of Augmented Reality Comics | TechCrunch)

micajita:

Interactive Sesame Street Playset AR prototype

 Using Qualcomm’s Vuforia augmented reality platform, and the camera from a tablet or smartphone running the app, the user (hopefully your kids) can bring scenes to life. we saw Bert and Ernie enjoying some tunes after a jukebox was placed in the room. It also has the ability to turn the disco lights on and play music. Other accessories included a toilet and car.

via: mattermedia, netbooknews

seanleow:

Augmented reality glasses to access emotions and metaphysical experiences. By Michaël Harboun.

trendd:

These are some amazing looking augmented reality games for the PlayStation Vita (on sale tomorrow).

PlayStation Vita - Augmented Reality (by GamerSpawn)

realityshifting:

DARPA Works On Virtual Reality Contact Lenses

Digital images could be directly projected onto lenses to improve soldiers’ situational awareness. 

By Elizabeth Montalbano, InformationWeek
February 01, 2012 01:03 PM

The Department of Defense (DOD) is working on contact lenses that would enhance soldiers’ vision to improve intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) activities without the need for specialized equipment that is currently used in the battlefield.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects (DARPA) agency is doing work at Washington-based Innovega iOptiks to create wearable eye lenses with tiny, full-color displays onto which digital images can be projected to give the wearers better situational awareness, according to the agency.

The lenses would allow users to focus simultaneously on images that are both close up and far away, which would improve their ability to use portable displays while still interacting in real time with the environment around them, according to DARPA. A graphic on the agency’s website shows the basic design of the lenses. 

hairynomas:

Here is a nice intro of Augmented Reality in Education from ICTmagic. He has some nice articles on his blog that are worth check in out. I am a big fan on this technology with camera phones and handheld devices (tablet or IPad). Not sure I can see me rocking the IR glasses in the future, but you never know… 

Augmented Reality in Education

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