If you haven’t heard of Google’s “Project Glass”, you’re missing out. It is the do-everything company’s new augmented reality project built around smart glasses. The futuristic looking frames house a camera for still and live video shots as well as wireless capabilities for cellular data, location aware services and sharing the aforementioned feeds with online services and accounts. It’s all pretty neat. In the video below, one...

While some of the bigger features of iOS 4.2 such as AirPrint and AirPlay dominated the limelight, Apple snuck in a few other gems. As it just so happens, a development company by the name of Occipital happened to stumble upon one of these so called secret features: Augmented Reality. You can check out the AR capabilities within Mobile Safari by pointing your browser to the live demo the developers at Occipital set up here. With all the talk of the web being the future of...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you didn’t exist? Perhaps something a little less deep — what if that hub cap on the car wheel were different? What if the building didn’t have some garish box jutting out of the side? Thanks to some researchers at Germany’s Technische Universität Ilmenau, now we can answer at least two of the three questions above. (Sorry, we can’t help you with questions regrading your existence at this...

Last year, AR (augmented reality) was a huge splash in the tech world. The ability to lay over multiple layers of information on top of a real world video feed opened up countless doors for all kinds of services and applications. In the case of iKat (developed with Zentium’s D-Track software), the software overlays a cat on top of the video feed. It may seem pretty basic, but the number crunching required to actually pull it off and have it look decent is pretty...

Continue walking and texting with ease complete with new fearless attitude thanks to “Type-n-Walk”. Anyone with a phone that has sent even one text message while on the move knows the dangers that present themselves when engaged in a riveting text based conversation whilst on the move. Thanks to the ingenious heads behind Type-n-Walk, worries of near death experiences can now be a thing of the past. The concept and operation of the app is easy. Whenever you...