As if going to Starbucks wasn’t a thrilling enough experience as it is, they’re now encouraging their smartphone-toting customers to wave their handsets around to enjoy an Augmented Reality app in the spirit of Christmas.
Android users have enjoyed the app for some time, but now iPhone 3GS users can start waving their arms around like Magnus Pike on poppers and join in the augmented reality fun.
One of the best apps of its kind, Layar has now been released for the iPhone, and it works in much the same way as the Android version, with local information being overlaid on a live camera view.
The Wikitude World Browser has been enhanced by 3D capabilities which lets you ‘view’ a virtual model of the Twin Towers from various locations in New York using an Android phone.
We’re not sure about this at all. It seems a bit, well, tasteless to our eyes (will they have ‘augmented reality planes’ flying across the sky too?).
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Cunningly clever researchers from Georgia Tech have come up with a way of taking real-time, real-world information from CCTV cameras and layering it onto a ‘live’ Google Earth, so you’ll be able to watch events happening live onscreen.
Single and multiple live video feeds are analysed to calculate the position and motion of various objects, which is then combined with behavioural simulations to produce real-time animations for Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth.
With onboard GPS, cameras and big screens making up most modern smartphones, there’s growing opportunities for you to walk the streets like a member of the Borg collective, with your iPhone feeding you a funky augmented vision.
The TechRadar team have slung together their top eight augmented reality apps for the iPhone, including the rather scary one above (TAT Augmented ID) which uses Flickr face recognition to identify a face and then surround it onscreen with their profiles from social networking sites.
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