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Feb

2

2012

Augmented Reality Meets the XAPPR, Coming Soon To Android

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by Emily Aquin
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Augmented Reality (also known as AR) has turned quite a few heads recently. It involves using your smart device like a “looking glass” to manipulate the world around you.  The technology has been integrated into several apps from the Qualcomm Augmented Reality Competition, and is making its way into many exciting new applications that we could use [...]

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Jan

25

2012

Augmented Reality Makes Toy Packages Cool, Teach Kids Lesson Of Looking At Package Before Buying

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by Roy Alugbue
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Technology sure is being taken to another level, isn’t it? While we were over at CES, we highlighted one of the more interesting concepts called “Augmented Reality“– where essentially a static object comes to life using a special app and your smartphone’s built-in screen. Bandai wants to use this technology and make toy packaging become [...]

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Jan

12

2012

Hands on with Augmented Reality apps utilizing the Qualcomm Augmented Reality SDK [Video]

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by Robert Nazarian
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We had a chance to sit down with the Qualcomm Augmented Reality team. and wow, did we seem some really cool stuff. A little over a year ago, Qualcomm hosted an Augmented Reality Developer Competition followed by the Augmented Reality SDK last April, which is now being marketed under the Vuforia name. We haven’t seen too much [...]

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Jan

4

2012

AppGear By WowWee Combines Physical Toys With Android Apps (Videos)

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by Joe Sirianni
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The wonderful folks over at WowWee, the company most popular for creating little robot toys, brings to the table in 2012 the ability to combine toys and action figures with Android applications for smartphones and tablets.  If I’ve ever experienced a strange or different “thinking out of the box” behavior before, this would certainly be [...]

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Dec

2

2011

Become the King of virtual basketball courts with new Augmented Reality NBA app

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by Robert Nazarian
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If you are into Augmented Reality apps, you need to checkout NBA: King of the Court. You basically search for virtual courts in your neighborhood through the augmented reality browser camera. If you are familiar with Foursquare’s Mayor rating, you will like this because you can become King of the Court if you achieve the [...]

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Aug

31

2011

Unlocked DROID Bionic DroidDoes.com Site Revealed

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by Harold Williams
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Thanks to Droid Life, we have an image of what the fully unlocked Droid Bionic DroidDoes.com site will look like after all the codes have been entered. It seems each code entered will reveal a new part of the scavenger hunt I talked about in my previous post. The DroidDoes site will still be a surprise [...]

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Aug

31

2011

DroidDoes.Com Bionic Page is Live, Droid Bionic Scavenger Hunt Uses Augmented Reality In New App

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by Harold Williams
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We’ve got some really cool Droid Bionic news to talk about and I’ll try to settle my excitement down enough to give it all to you. First up the site for all things Droid, DroidDoes.com, went live last night and the @DroidLanding account is active again on Twitter. Over at DroidDoes you’ll find a page asking for [...]

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Jun

30

2011

Augmented Reality comes to Android tablets via Wikitude 6.1

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by Robert Nazarian
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There are a few Augmented Reality (AR) apps out there like Layar, Junaio, and Wikitude, but none of them could be used on a Honeycomb tablet. Well, thanks to Wikitude’s latest update (6.1), it is now possible to use your tablet’s camera to find places around you. It is compatible with the Motorola XOOM, LG [...]

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Apr

27

2011

Augmented Reality Platform Incoming from Qualcomm

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by Mitch Wright
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If I didn’t know better, I’d say that Qualcomm has high expectations regarding the future of augmented reality. Over half a year ago we wrote regarding an augmented reality SDK that Qualcomm had developed, and hot on the heels of this was an augmented reality app development competition that the Snapdragon manufacturer had held. Fast [...]

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