The Tokyo Newspaper is suffering the same fate as many other leading city papers around the world, and the guys at Dentsu Tokyo have been trying to find new ways for the paper to connect with readers, when they came up with this, an Augmented Reality Reader app for kids, bringing a little extra life [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 2, 2012
Ever wondered how those Mercedes-Benz accessories really look at every angle when added to the car? Well, now you don’t have to. Mercedes-Benz has launched a series of new Augmented Reality Apps across iOS/Android for a few of its accessory lines, with more to come later this year… To kick it off, Mercedes-Benz lets you [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Vodafone Germany has released a new Augmented Reality mobile gaming app called “Buffer Busters” challenging users to go hunting virtual “Buffer Monsters” that are slowing down networks. The location based app guides you infested areas all over the country, where you use the augmented reality shooter to capture the monsters, storing them for when you [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Cadbury have launched a world first Augmented Reality gaming app that is activated via their chocolate bar packaging, utilising Blippar’s image recognition technology and AR app platform. The game itself is called Spots v Stripes, a simple, seemingly addictive game that has you smacking ducks as fast as you can, before sharing your best scores [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 5, 2011
This is the latest platform out from Total Immersion, it’s an augmented reality mobile commerce app created specifically for eye wear brands and retailers. The app uses the iPhone 4′s front facing camera to deliver a facial tracking system allowing users to “virtually” try on glasses (augmented reality style) through their iPhone 4. The platform has the [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 18, 2010
Craigo, seeing you missed your Spanish lessons this year, I thought i’d post this very cool Augmented Reality iPhone app just for you! It’s called Word Lens, and it uses the iPhone’s camera, along with optical character recognition to translate anything from Spanish into English on the fly, just by pointing the iPhone at the printed words [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 28, 2010
This is a fantastic idea executed to perfection by Audi. In 2010 they didn’t create just another beautiful calendar, they created an unexpected experience! Yes, they printed the calender purely as landscape images, blank, no cars, nothing, and then prompted people to download the special iPhone app that would allow you to activate the calendar [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 29, 2010
Iron Man 2 is out and with that comes this Augmented Reality App that seems to almost be the standard thing you do when launching a movie at the moment! The AR app give you the chance to get inside Iron Man & War Machine, choose your own colours, then record their very own video [...]
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
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