Ikea lets you learn the ins and outs of a product with new AR catalog and app. French Start Up Helps Augmented Reality Grow Up. As competitors loom, you should know Google Glasses are our future. To say that Google Glasses stole the I/O show last week is an understatement.
The next-gen device took the conference by storm, and we all forgot that Google is (was?) A search company. Now that the world is in the throes of Project Glass and Sergey Brin’s circus of skydiving, rappelling, BMX biking demonstrators, word is spreading about other manufacturers’ plans to create and sell wearable computers. According to a Japanese press release, Olympus has announced a prototype of its own headset. IBM Labs pitches the future of augmented reality shopping with mobile app prototype.
Made in IBM Labs: New Augmented Reality App To Give In-Store Shoppers Instant Product Details and Promotions in the Palms of Their Hands YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., July 2, 2012 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) Research scientists today unveiled a first-of-a-kind augmented reality mobile shopping app that will make it possible for consumers to pan store shelves and receive personalized product information, recommendations and coupons while they browse shopping aisles.
Upon entering a store, consumers download the app on their smart phone or tablet, register, and create a profile of features that matter to them - from product ingredients that could trigger an allergy, to whether packaging is biodegradable. When they point their device's video camera at merchandise, the app will instantly recognize products and, via augmented reality technology, overlay digital details over the images - such as ingredients, price, reviews and discounts that apply that day. How it Works. Wearable Tech: Welcome to the Future of Fashion. Gadgets continue to shrink in size and adapt to free up our hands, making it more convenient than ever for users to multitask.
Taking it a step further, techie fashionistas are beginning to embrace a new wave of wearable gadgets — from the Pebble watch to Google's sci-fi glasses. It seems like the spyware we used to see in the movies is actually coming to life. SEE ALSO: High-Tech Threads: Can Your Clothes Do This? This infographic, provided by Visual.ly and VoucherCodes.co.uk, takes a look at the most up-and-coming wearable technology.
Some of these products have already hit the market, and others are projected to in the near future. Google Glasses may translate directional sound, speech for the deaf. Wearable music trainer looks like a viral attempt to fight your way to fitness. Google Gets Transparent With Glass, Its Augmented Reality Project. Larry Page and Sergey Brin have long had the dream of a hands-free, mobile Google, where search was a seamless process as you moved around the world.
As the years progressed the vision did, too, expanding beyond search to persistent connections with the people in your lives. In other words, Google’s view of the world now has the social side fully baked into it. Today, Google is revealing that it is taking concrete steps towards that vision with ProjectGlass, an augmented reality system that will give users the full range of activities performed with a smart phone — without the smart phone. Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience. The usual question: Over the past 30+ years as a consultant in the field generally known as human factors engineering (aka usability engineering), I have been asked by hundreds of clients why users don’t find their company’s software engaging.
The answer to this persistent question is complex but never truly elusive. This question yields to experience and professional usability analysis. The unusual question: Surprisingly, it is a rare client indeed who asks the opposing question: why is an interface so engaging that users cannot stop interacting with it? TheBlu: An Ambitious Project to Virtually Map the Oceans. If you're into the ocean (but you're terrible at keeping saltwater tanks alive), you may want to check out TheBlu.
TheBlu, which just received a seed round of angel investment, is a worldwide art project focused on mapping out the oceans. Apple and Google independently developing wearable, reality augmenting smartphones. Marco Tempest: The augmented reality of techno-magic. Olly: A device that lets you smell the Internet. 7 November '11, 12:18pm Follow While we’re used to seeing and hearing content on the Internet, smelling it has never really had much of a look in.
That changes with the launch of a cool new product from London’s Mint Digital Foundry. Olly is a USB-powered device which takes events on the Internet and turns them into smells. Just got a reply on Twitter or a ‘like’ on Facebook? Telesar V robot brings new meaning to escapism (video) Sign Of The Times: A Table That Hides Your Work, At The Press Of A Button.
As more people abandon stuffy office buildings to set up workplaces at home, the question of where our jobs stop and our private lives begin gets harder to answer.
Here to introduce a better work-life balance to those for whom work and life are, in a very real sense, intertwined is Dutch design student Sabine Marcelis. Marcelis has invented a table that discourages workaholics by actually hiding their work from them. [The table, in its off and on positions; It works ] Microsoft’s Augmented Reality 3D HoloDesk Lets You Play With Balls In Real Time.