The use of augmented reality

Posted Sat, 08/27/2011 - 22:13 by fighella

When virtual reality was introduced, it made quite a stir: with virtual reality it was possible to simulate a real life situation and create a situation that was almost the same as the one people would have to face in real life. This basically changed everything: the pilots could now get trained in simulated environment and the training institutions did not have to employ the scarce and expensive resources, and most of all the risk was minimized. While sitting in a cubicle, the pilots would go through all kinds of different real life simulations, learn well and then apply them.

Learning more about augmented reality

Posted Sat, 08/27/2011 - 22:12 by fighella

For years man has used his creativity to come up with new things, and in that pursuit we find our first television that showed moving pictures, which later on what to coloured television that showed pictures and gave sound, to large screen cinemas that have completely altered the viewing expectations of the audience. But success has only made man move forward at much greater speed, and in order to satiate the curiosity and do more, a lot of mind blowing inventions have resulted, and one of these is the capability to view in three dimensions.

Blackberry Augmented Reality Apps

Posted Tue, 10/26/2010 - 23:31 by fighella

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/layar_now_available_world_wide_on_a...

Layars Augmented Reality browser announced that it is now available worldwide on Android handsets. Hundreds of new 'Layars' are available to view on your phone camera including Wikipedia entries and geographic points of interest.

Augmented Reality Windscreen

Posted Mon, 03/22/2010 - 19:41 by fighella

Check out the future of driving from GM. An augmented reality windscreen for your car! That's totally cool.

AVATAR Opens Tommorrow!!!

Posted Tue, 12/15/2009 - 13:04 by fighella

Are you going to see Avatar?

I still have not found an IMAX cinema close by... DOH

The reviews are sounding pretty positive, hopefully it's not just the film industry trying to inject some much needed cashola into it... With a reported $500 million dollar budget, let hope this movie rocks and it encourages many more big juicy blockbusters...

Im excited.

Here comes Augmented Reality

Posted Tue, 12/15/2009 - 12:54 by fighella

Read the article from Variety Below:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011632.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

You will see visionaries like James Cameron are going to help bring Augmented Reality to the forefront.

It's exciting times for this amazing emerging technology....

Are you going to go and see Avatar?

Avatar Augmented Reality Toy Demo

Posted Tue, 12/15/2009 - 12:50 by fighella

A totally awesome preview of James Camerons new 'Avatar' Augmented Reality toy.

Google Android

Posted Tue, 12/15/2009 - 12:45 by fighella

Google has just given 100's of phones to it's employees for a technique called "dogfooding" which will allow google employees to test the functionality of their new devices.

The move is causing a bit of commotion as google is releasing the software on its own device.

Stay tuned for more on the Android.

Google Goggles

Posted Tue, 12/15/2009 - 12:42 by fighella

Google has a new tool that is going to help people find out information about objects right in front of them.

That's right. "Google Goggle" will use some pretty funky techniques to identify objects and then plug them into web search to help you find out information about them.

Here's a quick blurb from the site:

A picture is worth a thousand words.No need to type your search anymore. Just take a picture.

Find out what businesses are nearby.Just point your phone at a store.

How Augmented Reality Works

Posted Mon, 11/23/2009 - 18:49 by fighella

Video games have been entertaining us for nearly 30 years, ever since Pong was introduced to arcades in the early 1970s. Computer graphics have become much more sophisticated since then, and game graphics are pushing the barriers of photorealism. Now, researchers and engineers are pulling graphics out of your television screen or computer display and integrating them into real-world environments. This new technology, called augmented reality, blurs the line between what's real and what's computer-generated by enhancing what we see, hear, feel and smell.

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