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Augmented Reality Chips on Intel’s Mind

Reuters reports that Total Immersion marketing chief, Antoine Brachet, says that they’ve been working with Intel to bring AR to Intel’s chipsets. Intel owns a stake in Total Immersion. According to Brachet, the chip could hit the market in two to three years.

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Amazon’s A9 Flow App Uses Augmented Reality to Help Holiday Shoppers

Amazon is releasing an augmented reality app called Flow to give shoppers comparison pricing, reviews, and other information from Amazon.com about products simply by pointing the camera at them.
The app uses A9.com’s visual recognition algorithms and the live camera feed to find the product…

Qualcomm’s Augmented Reality Picture Frame Demo

In the Qualcomm museum we found an oldly but a goody, an Augmented Reality picture frame. How it works is its based on Qualcomm’s Augmented Reality SDK, which is compatible with any Android 2.1+ device, together with their P2P technology.
The picture frames are actually…

WeTab MeeGo Tablet Shows Off Augmented Reality App

The WeTab tablet, running MeeGo using metaio´s unique image processing capabilities, visitors get into some pretty cool Augmented Reality apps. You can catch a glimpse of how consumers will look at images, objects, museum pieces, billboards and natural sites in the future. Additional and dynamic…

Green Lantern Augmented Reality Advertisement in Taipei, Taiwan

Green Lantern the movie has hit the silver screen with mixed reviews…well actually it was terrible! However, the augmented reality application out side of the cinema was good fun!  The augmented reality application uses a AR code or a sheet of paper which the webcam…

Total Immersion: AR Goes Beyond Gimmicks to Business

Founded in 1999, the French based company is also Intel VC backed and has already completed more than 850 projects and is the leading AR technology provider.
We got to check out a few projects one for kinex which allowed us to look at how…

Smartphone connected to Pictureframe by Qualcomm

Paul Jacobs shows off the power of sharing via mobile and Augmented Reality. The demo which features a smartphone connected to various picture frames centers on Qualcomm’s Augmented Reality SDK, which in the demo is running on a Google Nexus One but is compatible with…

Junkyard Jumbotron Delivers Instant Multiscreen Displays

Research labs are always coming out with all the cool stuff! MIT has developed Junkyard Jumbotron, an app enabling multiple devices, smartphones, notebooks, tablets in fact anything else with a browser to create a multi-screendisplay. The app uses QR codes to learn where each display…

Education Augmented Reality App Using the Classmate PC – IDF 2010

It’s Day 0 of IDF 2010 and the pre-sneak peak show floor is already open. Here we’ve got a classmate PC demo that shows off Richard Beckwith shows off Classmate Assist which supports users seated or standing at the desk or table. This is an…

UpLinq 2010 Highlights – Netbook Nation #19

UpLinq 2010 in San Diego June 30- July 1, 2010 was full of innovative products and devices. Netbook News was there to capture innovations around mHealth with the Dexcon Wireless Bandaid Offers 7 Days Glucose Monitoring and Bluetooth stethoscopes. Snapdragon tablets are the talk of…

Qualcomm’s Augmented Reality Demos Missed the Point

Qualcomm announced an Augmented Reality SDK and its ramping up with a Developer Challenge, they will accept just 25 developers to beta test the program. After the beta has concluded, a developer challenge with $200,000 in prizes will open and we’ll get to see the…

A-R Drone Quadritor w/ Camera & Augmented Reality Game

GDC 2010: Developing for Tablets & Augmented Reality