Augmented Reality

VIDEO: John Mayer offers augmented reality music vid

American artist John Mayer has launched an augmented reality music video to accompany the song Heartbreak Warfare.

As with similar PC-based augmented reality offerings fans hold an image - either as a print-out or on a mobile phone screen - up to a webcam...

VIDEO: Layar comes to iPhone 3GS

Layar, the augmented reality browser which lets you search Google Local for locations in your area and then overlay them on an image captured by your camera, has now been made available for the iPhone 3GS.

Long a favourite of Android users, the app displays information...

VIDEO: London gets WorkSnug iPhone app

A company called WorkSnug has announced an iPhone application that uses augmented reality to help you find quiet places where you can log on to a Wi-Fi signal and work in London.

The app overlays locations onto the world around you using the iPhone 3GS's internal...

VIDEO: Layar's 3D augmented reality brings Pac-man to real life

Developer Layar has announced the addition of 3D capabilities to its augmented reality browser platform.

"The addition of 3D enables Layar developers to create more realistic and immersive augmented reality experiences for mobile devices", says the company.

VIDEO: Google Earth goes "live"

Clever folk at the Georgia Institute of Technology are presenting results of a recent project - "Augmenting Aerial Earth Maps with Dynamic Information".

With the title managing to make it sound quite dull - which is nothing compared to how snoozily the video...

Nokia prepping augmented reality solutions

"Augmented reality", a way of bringing digital content to life in the "real world" is a bit of a buzz tech at the moment, and Nokia is currently working on various versions of the tech.

Shown off at the Nokia World event in Germany, Nokia's augmented reality,...

Augmented reality contact lenses planned

A team of scientists at the University of Washington has developed and produced multiple prototypes of a contact lens that has an LED mounted on it.

The unit is powered wirelessly by RF electrical signals, and represents the start of research that could eventually...

London Bus iPhone app updated

The London Bus iPhone application, which promises to tell you where your nearest bus or tube stop is, has been updated to add augmented reality overlays for the iPhone 3GS.

When you turn it on, you can wave the camera around and it'll overlay the direction...

Lastminute's nru application now available

Lastminute's "nru" application, which the company promised some time ago was coming soon to the iPhone, has arrived. It's been available for Android since January, but now there are more handsets with compasses available, it's rolling out elsewhere.

Marko Balabanovic,...

VIDEO: TwittARound augmented reality iPhone app

Here is a demo of the first beta version of TwittARound - an augmented reality Twitter viewer on the iPhone 3GS.

TwittARound shows live tweets around a user's location on the horizon. Because of video "see-through" effect, users can see where the tweet comes...

VIDEO: Augmented reality business card revealed

If recent launches are anything to go by, this "augmented reality" we're hearing about is going to be big.

Here London-based software developer James Alliban takes a business card and with a graphic printed on the card and a webcam, creates an augmented reality...

Lastminute to launch augmented reality app for iPhone 3GS

Lastminute.com will launch an augmented reality application for the iPhone 3GS in the next couple of weeks Pocket-lint has learnt, that will allow people to find bars, restaurants and cinemas in their current location from their phone.

The application, which...

VIDEO: Transformers 3D webcam demo

To promote the new Transformers flick, "Revenge of the Fallen", Paramount has released a "ground-breaking" augmented reality webcam app.

Using face-tracking tech, the app lets Transformers fans use their webcam to picture themselves with the original 3D CGI...

VIDEO: IBM's "Seer" Android app for Wimbledon

Designed for Wimbledon 2009, the "Seer" app features "location-aware visualisation technology" that means watching the video is probably the best way to introduce this new, beta application from IBM for Android-based phones.

IBM says the "augmented reality"...

Radio 1 trials augmented reality technology

Radio 1 is trialling some new technology for Radio 1's Big Weekend to say thank you to listeners who applied for tickets but were unsuccessful.

"Band in Your Hand" gives these listeners an exclusive performance direct into their hand.

People who...