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Google Map Buddy 1.1 (Windows)

If you have ever wanted to print a map from Google and spent ages putting images together to fit on one piece of paper then this program is for you. Using this software you can navigate to a specific location on Google Maps and select an area for which you...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows, Image, Augmented Reality

Software downloads 2009-07-14

Microsoft's augmented reality check

At TechFest, Microsoft's annual research event, the company demoed here is a video its "Core Tools for Augmented Reality AR," software that superimposes data and graphics onto a display with real time footage, essentially linking the information world and the physical world. At the show, the researchers...

Tags: Software, Researcher, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Augmented Reality, Corporate Communications, Engineering, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Augmented reality onboard the ISS?

Augmented reality onboard the ISS?Augmented Reality in the k-12 classroom too !Great piece ! - Here is some augmented reality in the classroom video from http://edusim3D.comTeacher Augments her Smartboard:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LN5JRl8_sUStudents build a Mars colony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjVG6uh8P80

Tags: Augmented Reality, ISS

Discussion threads 2007-10-14

Geovirtual reality for sharing information

Engineers and computer scientists at West Virginia Universitys GeoVirtual Laboratory GVL have developed what they called the VRGIS solution -- short for virtual reality geographic information systems. The VRGIS project combines several technologies, such as virtual reality VR, location based services LBS, and geographic information systems GIS with the power...

Tags: GVL, augmented reality, Engineering &, Innovation, Wireless &, Telecom, Computers &, Internet, Defense &, Security, GVL team

Blog posts 2006-12-03

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Car Finder for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Car Finder for iPhone is an augmented reality based car finding application on the iPhone. Use it to find your car anywhere you are. Once you load the application you can use the camera viewfinder to see an overlay of where your car is, the direction it is located and...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Car, Mobile, Intridea

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Heads Up Navigator Pro for iPhone 1.0.1 (Mobile)

Heads Up Navigator Pro for iPhone provides an immersive, augmented reality navigation experience by overlaying floating 3D labels directly onto the world around you, as shown by your phone built-in camera. The display tilts and pivots as you move your phone through real space, letting you easily visualize landmarks and...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Mobile, Netscape Navigator, Niftybrick Software, Telecom & Utilities

Software downloads 2009-11-11

Heads Up Navigator for iPhone 1.0.1 (Mobile)

Heads Up Navigator for iPhone provides an immersive, augmented reality navigation experience by overlaying floating 3D labels directly onto the world around you, as shown by your phone built-in camera. The display tilts and pivots as you move your phone through real space, letting you easily visualize landmarks and addresses...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Mobile, Netscape Navigator, Niftybrick Software, Telecom & Utilities

Software downloads 2009-11-11

Sun Seeker for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

Sun Seeker for iPhone provides both a flat view compass and an augmented reality camera 3-d view showing the solar path, its hour intervals, its winter and summer solstice paths, and rise and set times. It is ideal for real estate buyers, gardeners, photographers, and architects. It features uses GPS...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Sun Microsystems Inc., Camera, Path, Ajnaware, Real Estate, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-11-10

Spyglass for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

Spyglass for iPhone is a digital and fun augmented reality tool. It turns an iPhone into a digital spyglass with heads-up display that in real-time shows you a compass, GPS information and a horizon tilt right over the live feed from the built-in camera. Looking through the Spyglass for iPhone...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Spyglass, Happymagenta Project, Smart Phones, GPS, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Google's Zebra Crossing project: celebrating bar codes

Today commemorates the 57th anniversary of the bar code, a universal method of data exchange that everyone is familiar with. Google is celebrating by converting their logo into a 128-bit ASCII bar code. Behind the scenes, they have been working on a...

Tags: Google Inc., Bar Code, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Fairy Trails 1.0 (Mobile)

Fairy Trails is an augmented reality game opens a window to the fairy world, revealing fireflies, colorful butterflies, and the ever elusive fairies. Shake your device to power the detector and then scan your surroundings. Fairy Trails uses the camera and compass of the iPhone 3G S to merge the...

Tags: Mobile, Freeverse, Fairy Trails, Games, Smart Phones, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-09-29

Bionic Eye France 1.0 (Mobile)

Bionic Eye France developed for the iPhone 3GS that enables you to visualize Points of Interest POI located in your nearby environment in France. POI databases include restaurants, taxis, WiFi hotspots, metro, and bus stations. Elements located at a distance less than one kilo meter only will be displayed on...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Presselite, Augmented Reality Functionality, Smart Phones, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-23

Bionic Eye Tokyo 1.0 (Mobile)

Bionic Eye Tokyo is a new application specifically developed for the iPhone 3GS that enables you to visualize points of interests located in your nearby environment in Tokyo in Japan. POI Points of Interest databases include restaurants, combines, WiFi hotspots, and metro stations. Elements located at a distance less than...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Presselite, Bionic Eye Tokyo, Augmented Reality Functionality, Smart Phones, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-23

Five new futuristic interfaces showcased at Siggraph 2009

SIGGRAPH 2009 is currently underway in New Orleans, bringing together some of the world's best digital artists, developers, and computer researchers together to show off the latest in computer graphics and interfaces. Yesterday, MIT's Technology Review posted videos of interesting new interfaces showcased at the annual...

Tags: Technology Review, Video, Siggraph 2009, Corporate Communications, Virtual Reality, Productivity, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Latitude for iPhone shows off iPhone deficiency

Latitude for iPhone shows off iPhone deficiencyApple's walls are becoming apparent to average people.I think more people are noticing the restrictions of living in the Apple ecosystem. Apple is the most closed and restrictive tech company out there, yet they are #1.The Palm Pre is in an epic battle against...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., battery, iPhone deficiency, deficiency, Dell Latitude, phone

Discussion threads 2009-07-25

Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books

Amazon uses 1984 to free e-booksDangerous gambleThey'll get harmonization. But likely to the US level through ACTARE: Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books"In this case the monopoly is copyright, which extends practically to infinity in the U.S., thanks to the Walt Disney Co., but is held to a reasonable length...

Tags: Corporate communications, E-books, probation, e-book, video, Amazon.com Inc., monitor, software

Discussion threads 2009-07-19

BS Contact 7.2 (Windows)

BS Contact enables the visualization of applications in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality through integration of interactive realtime 3D technology. The software is a stable and a high performance visualization software applicable for PCs, CD ROMs/DVDs, E-mails and the Internet/Intranet. VRML and X3D are certified ISO-Standard formats that are exported...

Tags: 3D, High-performance, Microsoft Windows, Bitmanagement Software, BS Contact, Virtual Reality, Leadership, Emerging Technologies, Management

Software downloads 2009-06-29

Gallery: What's brewing inside Microsoft Research?

Microsoft Research recently opened the doors to its research and development facility in Cambridge and silicon.com went along to take a look at the technology being worked on - from augmented reality and Microsoft's Surface technology, to making disk drives more efficient. by Andy Smith

Tags: R&D, Microsoft Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, research and development, Microsoft, Andy Smith

Image galleries 2009-05-14

ARmedia Plugin For Google SketchUp 1.1 (Mac)

AR-media Plug-in technology allows users to bring their models from the 3D modeling tool by Google into "reality." Once installed and configured the plug-in allows users to visualize any model textured or not in Augmented Reality and experience a new way to interact with their digital content and show...

Tags: 3D, Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Inglobe Technologies, AR-media Plug-in Technology

Software downloads 2009-05-06

Microsoft's augmented reality check

Microsoft's augmented reality checkVery nice! NT.

Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, reality check, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-26