Unless you have access to a special effects studio, your iPhone movies will be a bit on the bland side. At this time of year its probably endless hours of aunty Doris sitting around the …
Read the full story »Zugara are the leaders in augmented reality ecommerece, we take the time to catch-up with them and quiz them about their Webcam Social Shopper application and the future of AR shopping on the internet.
2011 has been an interesting year for implementations of augmented reality that involve the unsuspecting public. While the Lynx girls remains my all time favourite it does seem kind of fitting that we have time …
Every year at Augmented Planet we ask you, the augmented reality community to vote across a selection of categories related to augmented reality to find the best experiences of the year. Nominations for awards are …
No doubt about it, everyone wants to capture the augmented reality developer and have them building applications using their tools. Even a casual search around Google will dig up a plethora of SDKs all demanding …
Wikitude Expands Support for BlackBerry Smartphones
The BBM connected app now supports BlackBerry 6 OS and higher, and is available in BlackBerry App World starting today
As part of BlackBerry® Dev Con Asia taking place in Singapore …
Have you have ever wanted to fake your own Apollo moon landing? As they say at Apple, there’s an app for that. MoonWalking is a new £0.69 ($0.99) app that enables you to experience the …
GoldRun if you haven’t tried it is an augmented reality application for the iPhone that enables you to interact with virtual objects placed around the city. Unlike other apps that encourage users to interact with …
Adidas recently put together an augmented reality campaign in Scotland to promote the new official football kit. The campaign allowed passes by in a local shopping mall to have their pictures taken with the football …
Fuego’s River Adventure is an iPad 2 only game that detects your movements to control the onscreen character. You’ll need to stand about 4-5 feet away from your iPad so it has good field of vision of your movements
If you are wondering what to do with those envelopes stuffed with cash you’ll receive from aunties and uncles over the Christmas holiday then wonder no more. Our advice is to put the cash away …
Immersive gameplay where you become the character in a game is an interesting concept and one that I think the Xbox Kinect will do pretty well at. Below is an interesting video from a developer …
Recently there have been a number of great augmented reality games hit the market that extend the genre beyond just turning on the devices camera for the sake of being called ‘augmented reality’. One of …
Mercedes-Benz is the latest brand to get in on augmented reality bandwagon with the launch of not one but two augmented reality applications for iOS and Android. Unfortunately neither app is particularly impressive.
If you are …
Some years back I went to the first ARE event in San Mateo I had the pleasure of meeting with the guys from Zugara and seeing a live demo of their Webcam Social Shopper application. …
If the sky-high cost of fuel has put you off owning a car, the next best thing is owning a virtual car. RC vCar from Pop Culture Software is an entertainment based application that displays …
The AR Drone is the ultimate flying experience and the most fun I have had with augmented reality for sometime. The added bonus of cameras and dedicated augmented reality games just takes the fun to the next level.
If you haven’t discovered already, at Augmented Planet we try to keep track of the various augmented reality events taking place around the globe. If you are looking to learn more about the technology or …
Regular readers know that each November we hold the annual Augmented Planet Readers Choice Awards. The only awards dedicated to recognising the world of augmented reality and the only awards that matter. The awards are …
Sometime last year I said 2011 would be the year of face recognition. I thought come December we’d be knee deep in people waiving their phones in our faces that it would almost be second …
Farrago, published by Hololabs Studio is the oddly named yet interesting augmented reality app you’ll find hidden away in the iPhone App Store. Simply put, it’s an easy to use augmented reality experience creator that …
As it’s getting to the end of the year it’s time to start thinking about the annual Augmented Planet Readers Choice Awards. The only place where you vote for your favourite augmented reality experience of …
The Parrot AR Drone is a seriously fun piece of kit. I also most had my hands on a review unit a few weeks ago. Unfortunately the reviewer before me broke it so I am …