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Honestly, I rarely need a reason to show off my love for Niantic@Google’s Ingress, but I try to. If you’re a fan of the game, then you might be looking where to score some official Ingress swag, and now the Google Store is the place to find it. The shirts went live on Google’s online…
If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve probably noticed that I have an almost unhealthy obsession with Niantic@Google’s Ingress. It might be extremely geeky, but it will definitely balance out your time playing video games while sitting on your couch. If you’re looking to play Ingress and still haven’t received an invitation to play yet, you can win…
In mid-November of last year, Ingress from Niantic Labs@Google was introduced, a division that’s only produced one previous application before. When announced, the limitation of being Android-only and invite-only certainly might have been a turn off to some people, but if you received the invite, you were introduced to world that just hasn’t existed on a…
Over the past two weeks, I’ve become rather obsessed with Google’s still invite-only game, Ingress. While it’s probably incredibly geeky to hear someone talking about portals and resonators, the game quickly becomes addicting once you give it a real shot. But, like most 1.0 version applications, Ingress isn’t perfect and needs some polishing. Last night…
Telefónica Digital is teaming-up with augmented reality platform Aurasma. Under the deal — which BTW is a major milestone for an augmented reality platform — the Spanish carrier group will integrate Aurasma’s technology into the range of media services it offers brands and advertisers. The AR capability will be offered alongside other technologies such as…
In its latest report, Juniper Research is looking at the market for augmented reality apps, predicting that by 2017, over 2.5 billion mobile augmented reality (AR) apps will be downloaded to smartphones and tablets per annum. To put this number into perspective, that’s 3.5 times the number of downloads achieved by Angry Birds in 2011!…
Augmented reality experts from Zappar launched a new offering that include a physical product – Zaphat. Using this special, Zappar-branded hats, those wearing it change face when looked through the Zappar app. From cartoon characters to scary monsters to medieval knights, Zaphat offers a myriad of options to personalize the user experience for different occasions.…
Popular augmented reality browser Wikitude has been updated with several handy features, including the ability to scan your money and instantly get exchange rates. Yup, you can test it out with your dollars and euros and see how much they’re worth today. Alongside the app update — which BTW is now in version 7.5 —…
IKEA has always been among the pioneers in adopting new technologies. Their latest gig is to add a new twist to the popular printed catalog. An augmented reality twist to be more precise. By relying on a mobile app, users are able to access an additional content and get more information about the products they…
Qualcomm’s augmented reality platform Vuforia just got smarter thanks to the power of the cloud. Up until this point, Vuforia apps have performed image recognition against a local database of up to 80 images and after this change, recognition will be possible against databases containing more than one million images. This new feature will enable…