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cranberryzero of I Heart Chaos just got inked, and his tattoo has a special feature. It can be scanned by augmented reality readers to produce an image from a Nintendo 3DS game. You can see a video of it rendering at the link.
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The World Wildlife Fund created augmented reality t-shirts in an effort to raise awareness of the threat that poachers pose to Siberian tigers. When people in trendy clothing stores in Moscow tried on the shirts in front of mirrors, the mirrors displayed images of the wearer getting shot in the chest.
via Gizmodo
Coming soon, a cell phone or special eyeglasses that will change the way you look and interact with the world around you. Augmented reality will give us more information about the places we go, things we see, and even translate the local language into one you understand. National Geographic has a taste of what augmented reality can do, and how close we are getting to this brave new world. Link
Historypin is a crowdsourced project that places historical images and the events associated with them over pictures from Google Street View. Users are invited to submit their own pictures and stories to contribute to a world map of history.
Thinks about how awesome this could be in a few years when there’s an augmented reality app for cell phones.
Designer Mike Clare made roll cookies that have a marker that can be detected by augmented reality software. When he waves one of the cookies in front of the webcam, his computer displays a colorful symbol on it.
Link via Geekosystem
The online clothing store Tobi lets you upload a picture of yourself and then try on different outfits superimposed on that image. In Fast Company, Kit Eaton writes:
It has been redubbed Fashionista (much better than the original Webcam Social Shopper) and it works pretty much how you’d think it would: When you’ve chosen an item of clothing you like the look of, you print out a special AR barcode-like tag and hold it up in front of you while you stand before your Webcam. Zugara’s software then displays an image of the clothing you’re interested in superimposed on your body. By maneuvering the AR tag around you can position the apparel exactly how you want it to match your body–so you get to see a rough image of what you’d look like wearing the actual garment.
It doesn’t stop there: You can take a snapshot of what you look like, and the system includes motion-capture so you can make gestures and selections by waving your arms, much as you do when using Sony’s Eye toy on the PlayStation. You can also give the clothes a thumbs up or thumbs down so it can recommend more for you–something a bit like a physical version of Amazon’s “you might also like” service (or a live personal shopper). And, of course, you can buy the items you select. Not content with using one hot-topic technology, Zugara has also given Fashionista a dash of social media interactivity–you can post the snapshots you take onto Facebook, presumably to garner the opinion of your friends. Or you can add them to your profile on the site where your shopper friends can comment.
Company Website via Fast Company
Do you remember the the head-crushing sketch from The Kids in the Hall? Artist Chris O’Shea created something like it, but on a grand scale, in this augmented reality demonstration. As the people of Liverpool walk along the city streets, they are projected onto a huge LED screen. A giant hand appears on the screen and torments or picks up their images.
