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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 provides a peek into our digital future. The one sentence description of SixthSense found on the official blog reads: ”‘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.” The video below demonstrates various ways in which SixthSense can augment reality. Below the video I will include some information about the technology.
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 are inserted into a view or image of the real world.
AR can best be understood by illustration. Consider this scenario. You are shopping for a home. In the un-augmented world, you might look for For Sale signs, knock on doors, call brokers and browse the web. With AR, however, you might just drive down the streets that interest you. Next, you would snap your cellphone camera at a house. It would process the image and report information back to you. The information would be overlaid on the image you see of the neighborhood either on your phone’s screen or with a pair of special glasses. You would know which houses are for sale. You might see the asking price of the home, pictures of the interior and maybe even a video virtual tour of the home. As you move down the street, you would learn about the next prospective house.
