Hotels.com is creating a new virtual world, which includes a touch of augmented reality.
The glasses will be able to connect to Wi-Fi and incorporate augmented reality into gaming.
For instance, IBM Research recently launched an augmented reality application, which combines all these consumer wants.
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Another key technology for the consumer intent on redesigning the workplace is augmented reality.
The computer sends its simulation to a pair of augmented reality viewing glasses users wear.
Even toys you may consider to be traditional are getting the augmented reality treatment.
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An augmented reality app has brought a Robert Burns portrait to life on the TEDGlobal stage.
It's being rendered in real-time, but it's important to understand that this isn't proper augmented reality stuff.
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Speaking of apps, T3 highlightts a new one that instantly translates text using augmented reality.
More recently, it has branched into buzzy new areas such as augmented reality and mobile health initiatives.
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It is very similar to the augmented reality features seen in movies, such as Stranger Than Fiction.
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In several such areas, emerging interactive technologies such as AR (Augmented Reality) can make a significant difference.
One of the more interesting uses for the 3DS is for augmented reality (AR) games and applications.
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Google Glass and other augmented reality gadgets risk creating a world in which privacy is impossible, warn campaigners.
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With that date just around the corner, it is debatable whether augmented reality has lived up to expectations.
From augmented reality to constant texting to ubiquitous computing and smart-devices we live in a culture already re-made.
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Researchers have created an augmented reality application that fills your desk with virtual hairy, red-and-black patterned spiders.
That kind of augmented reality is just what eBay has been tooling around with in its mobile division.
Mills says augmented reality also has yet to reach the mainstream because the technology requires so much processing power.
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Google's Project Glass has garnered lots of attention among Earthlings and Saiyans on the augmented reality front.
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And more mobile gamers are moving thanks to location-based games and augmented reality.
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Qualcomm already has teams of researchers working on Augmented Reality technology in South Korean, China, San Diego, and Vienna.
This kind of augmented reality is only going to get bigger in 2011.
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Google Glass and Vuzix (available this year) are essentially mobile computers that take augmented reality to the next stage.
It is not yet clear what the augmented reality display will show but it is likely to be simple.
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Toyota has also developed technology that lets a car communicate with a driver's smartphone to offer augmented reality features.
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Augmented reality apps, like those powered by Qualcomm's Vuforia platform, are being used to help children learn to read.
In the company's new augmented reality range, a completed puzzle comes to life.
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And what's really clever is that Aurasma allows anyone who downloads the app to create their own augmented reality content.
Software developers are now working on ways to make augmented reality as integral a part of the Internet as Flash.
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