Apple Exploring Augmented Reality

For now, Apple’s main focus is the launch of the Apple Watch on April 24. But in the long run its goal may be developing an augmented reality (AR) device that could succeed where Google Glass failed. Apple is to said to have a small team tasked with experimenting and researching AR, according to industry contacts… Continue reading “Apple Exploring Augmented Reality”

Project Anywhere: A Virtual Reality Out-of-Body Experience

It’s what dreams are made of for any avid gamer – controlling an avatar with your body in real time. Project Anywhere is the brainchild of Constantinos Miltiadis, a student at ETH Zurich, who claims to have created the most advanced virtual digital avatar, which allows multiple gamers on different continents to compete in the same… Continue reading “Project Anywhere: A Virtual Reality Out-of-Body Experience”

LEGO Fusion Is Augmented Reality for Tweens

Augmented Reality (AR) is not just the stuff of wearable displays (like Google Glass and Microsoft’s HoloLens), ghostly virtual assistants, and floating keyboards any more. In a perfectly appropriate blend of real and virtual innovation, LEGO has found a way to use AR that embellishes the building blocks and increases creativity and real-world play (rather than take away from it) with the LEGO Fusion group of sets. Continue reading LEGO Fusion Is Augmented Reality for Tweens