May 25

Parrot AR.Drone to get official launch, price, street date at E3 2010 (update: Android client video!)

Posted in: augmented reality, AugmentedReality, e3, gaming, remote control, RemoteControl, Today's Chili, Toys
If you’ve been chomping at the bit to get your hands on the AR.Drone iPhone controlled, augmented reality-sporting, WiFi quadricopter (and you know we have been) we’ve good news for you. According to a brief blip on Parrot’s Facebook page, the thing will get its official US launch, complete with pricing and street date, at E3 come June 15. Sort of makes WowWee’s Tinkerbell look silly in comparison, don’t it?

Update: As our main man Kefs has pointed out, the gang at Parrot demoed the AR.Drone Android client at Google I/O last month week. Now we’re waiting on news of a BlackBerry client — which we sure hope makes the scene at E3! See it in action after the break.

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May 20

Wikitude Drive AR nav app beta announced, available in Android Market (video)

Posted in: Android, augmented reality, AugmentedReality, gps, Today's Chili, video
With all the action going down at Google I/0 you can be excused for missing this latest tidbit: the folks behind Wikitude have made the beta version of Drive (their augmented reality personal navigation app) available for free for 2,000 users. And we just got our hands on it, so we know that there are at least a few downloads left at the Android Market. The full-featured demo sports NAVTEQ map data, both AR street view and 3D map view, worldwide coverage, voice commands, and both driving and walking directions. There’s no word yet on when the final version will be released, so this might be your last chance for a while to play with what’s stacking up to look like a pretty decent application. See the thing in action and check out the PR yourself after the break.

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May 19

Cubic’s COMBATREDI combat simulator takes augmented reality to new, awesome levels

Posted in: augmented reality, AugmentedReality, military, OLED, Today's Chili, wargadget
Cubic Corporation is a defense contractor that’s been kicking around in some form or another since the early days of the Cold War, although you’re more likely to know them as the operator of the New York City MetroCard system. What brings ’em to our space, you ask? Another cutting edge wargadget, of course! Indeed, the company has just been contracted to supply 27 of its COMBATREDI training systems to the Florida Army National Guard (to the tune of $4.8 million). The combat simulator features a hi-def, helmet mounted OLED video display for a 60 x 45-degree field of view, an integrated 3D stereo headset for sound, and a wireless “surrogate” rifle that performs like a real one, right down to the need for fresh magazines and various firing modes. The user’s movements are tracked by way of a REDITAC tactical computer worn on the back, with a suite of sensors that can also determine where he’s looking, and whether he’s standing, kneeling, or lying on the ground. Of course, the company is selling this as the most realistic way to train our troops yet, although we can see it for what it really is: possibly the most bad-ass first-person shooter ever. PR after the break.

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May 03

LG confirms Android-powered Ally, coming May 20th

Posted in: Android, augmented reality, AugmentedReality, LG, qwerty, QwertySlider, slider, Today's Chili

Well, this hasn’t exactly followed the usual smartphone launch route, but LG has now officially confirmed the existence of its new Android-powered LG Ally handset, although it’s still not doing much talking about the phone itself. It has, however, revealed that the phone will be available on May 20th (presumably on Verizon, though LG oddly doesn’t mention a carrier in its press release), and that it will naturally feature plenty of Iron Man 2 tie-in content, including an augmented reality application of some sort. Otherwise, LG is only saying that the phone will have a touchscreen and a full QWERTY keypad, and it’s pointing folks towards an Iron Man 2 tie-in site (linked below) that, last we checked, still says to check back on April 30th. We should be getting some more details on the phone soon enough, however, as LG is holding an event in New York on May 11th where it will be showing off the Ally and other “Stark-worthy” technology.

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Apr 28

Objects in Chinavasion’s Video Glasses may be cheaper than they appear

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Certainly, if we’re going to live in a future where console jockeys and other cyberpunk-types run amok in virtual reality dreamscapes, we’re going to have to start seeing more cut-rate video eyewear. For most cowboys, dropping $800 on something by Vuzix is just not an option. Luckily, the gang at Chinavasion have recently sourced some generic, relatively inexpensive “Video Eyeglasses.” Priced at $135 (with the cost dropping when you buy at bulk) these bad boys feature a simulated display size of forty inches and QVGA (320 x 240) resolution. But that ain’t all! It even ships with its own generic media player, sporting 2GB storage and support for the usual file formats (including DivX, XviD, MPEG2, AVI, MP3, and FLAC) as well as ROMs for NES and Sega. Seems pretty straight forward, right? The only question we have left is: if viewed through Video Glasses, will The Girlfriend Experience have a plot? Because when we saw it on IFC, we’re pretty sure it didn’t. Get a closer look after the break.

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Apr 28

Rocket Racers are go: two aircraft put on a show in Tulsa

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This isn’t the first time that would-be competitors in the Rocket Racing League have taken to the skies, but the recent Tusla Air & Rocket Racing Show did mark the first time that two of the aircraft have flown together, giving spectators a taste of what an actual rocket race might be like. Those actually looking up are only seeing part of what makes the Rocket Racing League so unique, however, as a key component of it is an augmented reality system that not only lets the pilots and viewers alike see the virtual course, but promises to eventually let folks at home test their skills against real pilots. What’s more, all of this may not be all that far off — Rocket Racing League founder Peter Diamandis (of X-Prize fame) is hoping to kick off the first series of races sometime next year. Until then, you’ll have to make do with the video after the break.

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Apr 25

QderoPateo Ouidoo to pack 26-core chip, looks like Palm Pre and Windows Phone 7 love child

Posted in: augmented reality, AugmentedReality, cellphone, mobile phone, MobilePhone, phone, Today's Chili, video

Really now? KIRFing a phone and a UI is one thing, but claiming to have a 26-core CPU (!) capable of 8-gigaflop (!) floating point operation — or the “equivalent of four iPads combined,” apparently — is one helluva stretch for a smartphone. This is apparently how awesome the QderoPateo Ouidoo will be. According to the launch event at the Shanghai World Expo on Friday, the too-good-to-be-true Divinitus CPU will help power the Ouidoo OS’s augmented reality articulated naturality apps and 3D social-networking virtual world. The rest of the specs include 512MB RAM, 4GB ROM, 28GB of built-in storage, microSD expansion, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, built-in 3D map, accelerometer, digital compass, 5-megapixel camera with flash, 220 hours of standby battery life, and a sharp 3.5-inch 800 x 480 screen. No prices or even videos of the UI available yet, but our friends over at Engadget Chinese are promised a review unit in July or August — around the time of the global launch (followed by an LTE revision in 2011), so it won’t be long before we find out whether this is just some absurd vaporware. A couple of pictures of the prototype after the break.

Update: Recombu has pinged us a link to Oxford University’s PTAM (Parallel Tracking and Mapping) augmented reality software, which is licensed to QderoPateo. You can see it demoed on an iPhone 3G after the break.

[Thanks, xleung]

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Apr 04

Apple contemplates head-mounted iPhone display, America cringes

Posted in: Apple, augmented reality, AugmentedReality, iPhone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, patent, Today's Chili
We’re pretty sure this isn’t an April Fool’s joke, and we’re pretty sure that it could be. Essentially an iPhone dock that sits on your face like a pair of glasses, “Head-Mounted Display Apparatus for Retaining a Portable Electronic Device with Display” details a headset that contains a stereo display and either a camera or a window for your phone’s camera. Also included in the patent application is a microphone, speaker, batteries, and an accelerometer for detecting the user’s head movements. Something like this would be great for augmented reality applications — and something like this would make ever getting a date that much more difficult. We’ll let you know if this one ever makes it past the drawing board, folks.

Apple contemplates head-mounted iPhone display, America cringes originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 22

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: high speed rail, augmented reality, and body broadband

Posted in: augmented reality, AugmentedReality, solar, solar power, SolarPower, Today's Chili
The Week in Green is a new item from our friends at Inhabitat, recapping the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us.

It was a monumental week for efficient transportation as China unveiled plans to connect its high speed rail network all the way to Europe. We were also excited to see Solar Roadways unveil the first prototype of an energy-generating road that stands to transform our freeways into power conduits. Meanwhile, one 74 year old man is going solo and blazing his own trail across the states aboard a solar powered stroller.

Inhabitat also showcased several amazing feats of architecture this week. One of the world’s first skyscrapers with built-in wind turbines is rising above London, while designer Enrico Dini has created a gigantic 3D printer that is able to create entire buildings out of stone.

Finally, we explored all sorts of ways that people are getting wired – literally. Students at the University of Washington are working on a set of solar-powered augmented reality contact lenses that may just bring terminator vision to the masses, while Spanish scientists are working on nanochips that can be that can be implanted into human body cells to detect diseases earlier. And in case you haven’t heard, “me-fi” is the new WiFi as researches have discovered a way to transmit 10mbps broadband data through a human arm.

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: high speed rail, augmented reality, and body broadband originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Feb 24

Augmented Reality App Identifies Strangers With Camera

Posted in: Android, augmented reality, Phones, Smartphones, Software, Today's Chili

Augmented reality enthusiasts dream of a future where having access to data everywhere will give us the eyes of the Terminator. Imagine donning virtual glasses that display digital captions describing everything you look at. Stare at a building, and a caption spits out when it was built; look at a stranger on a bus and a digital bubble appears in the corner of your eye, displaying his name and age.

We’re not quite there yet, but Swedish software company Astonishing Tribe is taking one step toward that reality. The company is experimenting with “augmented identification” on smartphones to identify people just by snapping a photo of them. Demonstrated in the video above, the smartphone app Recognizr uses recognition software to create a 3-D model of a person’s mug. Then it transmits the model to a server, which matches it with an image stored in the database. An online server performs facial recognition and shoots back a name of the subject and links to his social networking profiles.

A little creepy, right? Recognizr is still just a concept app being tested with a small number of profiles on an Android phone. We doubt anything like this will hit the consumer market soon, since the software will have to be optimized to recognize images from billions of photos across all the social networking sites out there. But still, this is an exciting glimpse into our data-injected future.

Via PopSci

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