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Remember Antoine Dodson of unfortunate-but-hilarious “bedroom intruder” fame? Of course you do (hide ya kids, hide ya wife!), the man is the Internet meme of the year. His rant on a Lincoln Park rapist turned him into an instant online superstar, and the Bed Intruder Song earned enough money to buy Dodson’s family a new…
As a result of co-operation between the Pittsburgh-based Andy Warhol Museum and mobile marketing experts at Brunner, a new way for exploring the work of the famous artist has been created. Folks from Brunner prepared a layar for Layar Reality Browser, allowing users to explore all things Warhol from the popular augmented reality client. When…
There’s a new augmented reality (AR) app for the iPhone, called Augmented Driving, that turns your dash-mounted iPhone into a heads-up display (HUD) for your car. It’s one of the coolest implementations of AR that we’ve yet seen for the iPhone, but it’s also quite possibly the most pointless augmented reality app as far as…
Metaio Junaio app is trying to bring augmented reality to your smartphone in a big way and its latest app brings cool, new experiences to your Apple iPhone 4 or 3GS. The company has updated its Junaio augmented reality platform for iOS 4 and this takes advantage of the new developer tools for interactive experiences…
Qualcomm has just announced that they’re launching a mobile augmented reality platform and will release a software development kit for app creators this fall. Mattel has already partnered up with Qualcomm to make an AR Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em game, which based on the concept alone, I’m eager to try out. The Unity game development…
metaio, the company behind the popular augmented reality browser junaio, announced that their app is ready for the iOS 4. More specifically, they said now that Apple has opened up camera access API, we should expect to have image recognition capabilities included in their apps and Unifeye Mobile SDK (which if you didn’t know supports…
Nokia is teaming up with “Heroes” creator Tim Kring to launch a mobile augmented reality game called “Conspiracy of Good.” Nokia has been talking about this for a while now (I remember sitting down at dinner with Kring last year) and it looks like the game/experience is ready to go. The concept is a bit…
The augmented reality app maker Layar has some mighty large ambitions, as the company just announced on its blog that it will be preloaded on a third of the world’s new smartphone this year. With pride Layar announced that LG, the worlds #3 mobile phone manufacturer will pre-load Layar on new Android devices. In addition,…
Brightkite made some waves by being the first to offer augmented reality advertisements late last year but these were actually kind of lame, banner-style ads overlaid on your screen. The company has boosted its ads but some of you may not like them. Before, the ads were at the bottom of the page and pretty…
You can now use your iPhone 3GS’ camera to help you find the nearest bus stop, as the transportation agency of Portland, Ore., has teamed with Metaio to use augmented reality to help you get around. Metaio’s iPhone app, Junaio, can now be used to access real-time schedules for the next bus. It’s interesting because…