Tag: AUGMENTEDREALITY

If you have an artistic temperament, but you weren't blessed with steady hands or an eye for color, Konstruct might be the app for you. Not only does the iPhone app let you produce generative art using words, warbles and whistles, but it also uses augmented reality to bring your artistic creation to life. To get started, you first need to print out the Konstruct marker and place it wherever ...

The latest mobile version of Safari supports some gyroscope-powered HTML hackery that allows users to view panoramic photos on the web. If you've got an iOS device with a gyroscope and iOS 4.2 -- i.e. an iPhone 4 or current-gen iPod Touch -- you can test it for yourself, thanks to Occipital, maker of the 360 Panorama app. Occipital is the first company to take advantage of this ...

Augmented reality, at the moment, is a bit kitsch. It's a technology that's been threatening to emerge for years but, like "virtual reality," it's always been held back by technological constraints. Until the last year or two, most AR and VR implementations involved you wheeling around a laptop (or strapping it to your back!) -- and VR still requires a silly pair of glasses. That's all about to ...

When we reported back in February that Google Goggles -- Google's augmented reality app for Android -- would be able to translate text on the fly using your phone's camera, we didn't know it was going to be available so soon! Our friend (and former DLS editor) Brad Linder has posted a video of the new translation feature in action over at mobiputing. Brad explains that once you've snapped a pic ...

Augmented reality is one of those nebulous buzz phrases. Depending on who you ask or where you are, it can mean almost anything -- but one thing's for sure, no one's really sure what it means. The general idea is that there's 'more than meets the eye.' Your boring, fleshy optical orbs see a restaurant, but augmented reality can show you reviews of that restaurant, or the best dishes to eat there. ...

Layar makes augmented reality applications for smartphone platforms including Google Android and the iPhone. What that means is, you can hold up your phone and look through the camera while seeing digital information about the things you're looking at. Click on the Architecture layer, and you can see information about significant buildings you pass. The Allmenus layer, shows you information ...

For most people, it doesn't mean anything. But for people writing the software that lets the rest of us see imaginary worlds, SIGGRAPH is an acronym for the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques. SIGGRAPH is dedicated to the creation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques. The group specializes ...

Download Squad has covered augmented reality apps before, both on Android and on the iPhone, but we speculated that it would be a while before AR became commonplace in apps people actually use. We might have been wrong about that, thanks to a surprise in the latest version of Yelp for iPhone. Shaking your phone a few times unlocks a hidden augmented reality mode called Monocle, that shows reviews ...