I don’t think I’ve ever had a post dedicated entirely to a Microsoft product but this is awesome. Below is a video from the TED conference which shows off the augmented reality features in Bing Maps. The video is long, around 8 minutes, but it gets better and better as it progresses.

 
MIT Media Lab's "SixthSense" Project [VIDEO]

“SixthSense” is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

 
Augmented Reality Baseball Cards by TOPPS [VIDEO]

Below is a video of TOPPS 3D Live baseball cards, the first to include augmented reality. These are truly amazing!

 

What are you writing about?  I haven’t heard of Augmented Reality. Wikipedia offers the following definition:  ”Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are merged with (or augmented by) virtual computer-generated imagery – creating a mixed reality.”  In other words, computer graphics [Read More...]

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