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Face Stealer App lets you wear someone else’s face

Face Stealer app

Eyes too small? Nose a little bit crooked? Cheekbones too high for your taste? Everyone has something to complain about how they look. Perhaps it wasn’t the intention of the Face Stealer app to make people feel better about their looks, but I think that’s what most people will end up feeling after they ‘steal’ a couple of faces and [...]

How Guys Will Use Google Glass [Video Humor]

Google Glass video

If you’re sick of all those Harlem Shake clips, you’ll want to check this video out. So we all know Google’s Project Glass is awesome. Right? The augmented reality headset that will be bringing the phase of wearable technology into our lives all led by Android, Google Now, and our voices. We’re huge fans of Google’s Project Glass, and this new parody video [...]

Google Glass shows off new interface

Google Glass

Last year, Google envisioned their augmented reality device as an in-your-face smartphone screen. But now they’ve created something much, much better. And you can get one. When Google released their original concept video for Project Glass last April, it seemed like the company was still struggling to dream up an interface that wasn’t, at its core, a smartphone screen for your eyeballs. [...]

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Google Project Glass User Interface revealed

Google Project Glass

Google has today released a video showing what it will be like to use and wear their new Google Project Glass eyewear, revealing a first look at the navigation interface that will be displayed on the screen within the Google Project Glass. As you can see in the view yourself after the break Google Project Glass allows the user to communicate with it via voice [...]

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Meta plans true augmented reality with Epson-powered wearable

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The augmented reality scene is hotting up, with the promise of full computer-mediated vision for the mainstream and another hint that Google won’t have the Glass market all to itself thanks to an incoming headset from startup Meta. The wearable project actually goes one step further than Project Glass, putting a full twin-display digital environment – controlled by two hand 3D tracking – in front of [...]

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Google’s new Augmented Reality game “Ingress” goes beta

Google AR game Ingress

To kick-start it’s Google Goggles Campaign, and to give people the much desired feel of ‘augmented reality’, Google has launched an awesome augmented reality game called ‘Ingress’. Ingress is an inside project of the former Google director of geo- John Hanke, who along with his Niantic labs had long ago started developing a conceptual ARG. Ingress- is an alternate reality [...]

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Google’s mysterious new viral campaign “Niantic Project” revealed

Google Niantic Project

Those folks from Google are up to something weird here with what they are calling the “Niantic Project” and this appears to only be the beginning. Google’s Niantic Labs recently launched the Android app Field Trip. Which is being marketed and described as “your guide to the cool, hidden, and unique things in the world around you.” Today we’ve got wind [...]

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NASA’s Augmented Reality App lets you ride along with Curiosity Mars Lander

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NASA’s Curiosity rover is landing on Mars next month. But it’s already landed on iPhones. So have the twin GRAIL spacecraft currently orbiting the moon. A new iPhone/iPad app released by NASA delivers an augmented reality experience in 3-D that allows users to print off imagery of the moon or Mars and view that imagery through the cameras on their devices, which [...]

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IBM develops augmented reality shopping app

IBM AR shopping app

Are you one who absolutely loves shopping, especially when it comes to purchasing groceries at the local supermarket? Well, if you are a seasoned shopper, you would virtually be able to navigate through the labyrinth of aisles with your eyes closed, grabbing those weekly items as though it were second nature to you. What happens when you are new to [...]

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Olympus MEG4.0 AR display revealed

Olympus MEG4.0 AR display bluetooth

Google’s Glass may not be headed to buyers until next year, but Olympus is wasting no time with its own alternative augmented reality display, the MEG4.0. The stem-like wearable features battery life of up to eight hours and floats a 320 x 240 virtual screen above the user’s regular eye-line, hooking up via Bluetooth to a nearby smartphone or tablet. The headset weighs under 30g, [...]

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