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  • Character Options AppGear to bring AR gaming to Doctor Who

    Character Options AppGear to bring AR gaming to Doctor Who

    TOY FAIR 2012: Foam Fighters first up 25 January 2012 15:49 GMT

    Character Options, the company behind many licensed toys including the Doctor Who and Wembley Stadium Character Building brick sets, Angry Birds catapult and Android plush, is to bring WowWee's AppGear to the UK, a new range of augmented reality games...

  • Dewar's offers AR tipple with poet Rabbie for Burns Night

    Dewar's offers AR tipple with poet Rabbie for Burns Night

    Bony lassie, will ye go 25 January 2012 13:27 GMT

    Dewar's World of Whisky is celebrating tonight's Burns Night by offering visitors to its Aberfeldy Distillery a tech-laden tipple with Rabbie Burns himself. It has turned a painting of the poet into an Aurasma AR trigger which comes alive and recites...

  • Nokia City Lens adds Augmented Reality to Local Scout on Windows Phone 7. Phones, Apps, Windows Phone 7 apps, Windows Phone 7, Nokia, Microsoft, Augmented Reality 0

    Nokia City Lens adds Augmented Reality to Local Scout on Windows Phone 7

    CES 2012: App time 16 January 2012 17:27 GMT

    If you've already got a Windows Phone 7 smartphone, or know someone that uses it, you'll no doubt already know about the really handy app by Microsoft called Local Scout.

    Nokia knows about it too, but feels it can do a better job than the people...

  • Sesame Street Bert and Ernie Augmented Reality toys takes play interactive. CES2012, Qualcomm, Sesame Street, Toys, Augmented Reality 0

    Sesame Street Bert and Ernie Augmented Reality toys takes play interactive

    CES 2012: Teams with Qualcomm 16 January 2012 14:32 GMT

    Qualcomm has demoed a new augmented reality toy with Sesame Street that allows you to re-create Bert and Ernie's living room or bathroom despite the rooms not even existing.

    The new technology, demoed by the company at CES in Las Vegas, follows...

  • The Augmented Reality adverts that are leaping off the page

    The Augmented Reality adverts that are leaping off the page

    CES 2012: Interactive 12 January 2012 16:39 GMT

    Qualcomm, alongside augmented reality experts Vuforia, has demoed a series of new AR adverts at CES that continue to show what is possible with the technology and how it plans to change advertising not in the distance future, but right now.

    New...

  • Aurasma 3D engine lets you augment your own reality. Apps, Augmented Reality, Aurasma, iPhone, ios 0

    Aurasma 3D engine lets you augment your own reality

    CES 2012: new engine for developers 9 January 2012 13:51 GMT

    Aurasma is to announce a new customisable 3D engine to developers which will allow them to build complex augmented reality experience for smartphone users. 

    The new app will allow you to use built in tools to add new characters and animations...

  • Vuzix teams up with Nokia for Terminator style AR glasses. Vuzix, Nokia, Augmented Reality, Glasses, CES2012 0

    Vuzix teams up with Nokia for Terminator style AR glasses

    CES 2012: Hasta la vista, baby 6 January 2012 14:43 GMT

    Vuzix, the video eyewear specialist who was behind the funky Wrap 1200 specs that we saw at IFA last year, has announced the Smart Glasses tech that it will be showing off at CES next week.

    The tech means Terminator-style Augmented Reality...

  • Cambridge students take on London's Tech City with innovative apps

    Cambridge students take on London's Tech City with innovative apps

    Ones to watch 8 December 2011 12:14 GMT

    Right now, the UK is going through a bit of a tech renaissance. Innovation is pouring out the doors of trendy offices in Old Street, and the digital roundabout has become a hub for small startups and designers.

    But London isn't the only place...

  • Augmented reality contact lenses almost here: focus on emails and gaming. Augmented Reality, Science, Hardware 0

    Augmented reality contact lenses almost here: focus on emails and gaming

    Nano-tech projection 22 November 2011 9:42 GMT

    A leap in augmented reality could be just around the corner as developments in nano-projection have enabled scientists at the University of Washington to say that such tech would be not only feasible, but...

  • Intel AR fitting room tries on Japan for size. CEATEC2011, Intel, Augmented Reality 0

    Intel AR fitting room tries on Japan for size

    CEATEC 2011: Weird tech on show from chip giant 7 October 2011 16:58 GMT

    When we heard that Intel would be a big presence at the Japanese company dominated showcase that is CEATEC, we wondered just what the chip giant may be showing off.

    Ultrabooks were obviously high on the agenda; with all existing models (from...

  • Pioneer AR Head Up Display pictures and hands-on. Car And GPS, Pioneer, Pioneer AR Heads Up Display, Satnavs, Augmented Reality, CEATEC2011 0

    Pioneer AR Head Up Display pictures and hands-on

    HANDS-ON CEATEC 2011: Augmented reality system on show 5 October 2011 9:24 GMT

    The cars set up by Pioneer to show off its AR Head Up Display over in Tokyo at CEATEC may have been a bit basic, but there was nothing straightforward about the augmented reality navigation systems onboard.

    The Pioneer AR HUD, Pocket-lint was...

  • APP OF THE DAY: Aurasma Lite review - (Spurs fans download now)

    APP OF THE DAY: Aurasma Lite review - (Spurs fans download now)

    Virtual reality mobile browser 30 September 2011 18:48 GMT

    If you’re reading this before 4:45pm GMT on Sunday 2 October 2011, you’re a Spurs fan and you happen to own either an Android or Apple smartphone, then you’re in luck. Pocket-lint’s App of the Day is not something exclusive...

  • Augmented reality glasses as rudimentary as they were 15 years ago

    Augmented reality glasses as rudimentary as they were 15 years ago

    AR tech has long way to go 15 September 2011 14:41 GMT

    Augmented reality glasses still have a long way to go. That’s the feeling of Michael Gervautz, an industry veteran of 15 years and the man heading up Qualcomm’s Augmented Reality Department in Europe.

    Michael Gervautz says that...

  • iPhone and iPad to get Qualcomm augmented reality boost

    iPhone and iPad to get Qualcomm augmented reality boost

    SDK comes out of Beta 15 September 2011 11:15 GMT

    The iPhone and iPad are about to see an influx of augmented reality apps, following the announcement that Qualcomm will open up its AR SDK to iOS developers so that it can submit its wares to the Apple App Store.

    The new service, which goes...

  • Vuzix Wrap 1200 specs get IFA debut. 3D TV, Augmented Reality, Vuzix, Vuzix Wrap 1200, IFA2011, 0

    Vuzix Wrap 1200 specs get IFA debut

    IFA 2011: Just like we told you 1 September 2011 14:54 GMT

    Sony is the only one making video glasses. Vuzix who’ve been doing it for some time and supply video glasses to the military have also announced new video eyewear at IFA in Berlin, Germany.

    The new Wrap 1200 offers a 16:9 widescreen display...

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