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Parrot AR.Drone Set for UK Launch! iPhone Remote Controlled Augmented Reality Quadricopter = WIN!

by Jay Garrett on June 25, 2010

Remember that very cool quad-rotor equipped iPhone guided flying machine from Parrot I wrote about back in January – The AR.Drone?

Well, it has now been officially announced that it will land in the UK on August 18th.

If you recall, the Parrot AR.Drone is controlled by the handlers iPhone or iPod Touch – you don’t even have to be in the same room or actually see the AR.Drone as live pics are beamed back to your handset via the quadricopter’s two video cameras :)

The images that hit your Apple device can also be overlaid with augmented reality courses and a variety of games that involve shooting robots, dodging lasers and dog-fighting with another chopper.

Being AR there’s every chance that you could fly against anyone, anywhere in the world!

Thankfully the AR.Drone has an inbuilt autopilot should things go a bit pear-shaped or your iPhone loses signal.

I would’ve expected more than 12 minutes flight-time per charge but that’s what you get.

The “affordable” asking price they bandied about 6 months ago for the Parrot AR.Drone turns out to be a wallet whimpering £299!

Still, August is quite close to Christmas if you can wait and have very reasonable parents/friends/partners ;)

Nip over to the site for more info.

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Glasto NavLav – Augmented Reality for Glastonbury Festival

by Jay Garrett on June 17, 2010

Part of the fun fear of these increasingly large festivals is trying to find your tent, the stage where your fave band are about to play on and where the loo’s are.

Orange are at Glastonbury again and their official GlastoNav app utilises augmented reality to show you where toilets, bars and the stages are by superimposing their whereabouts over real-life images using the  iPhones camera.

You also get handy maps of the site, performance times and it will even help you find your way back to your tent after 3 ciders too many.

Andrew Pearcey, Head of Sponsorship at Orange UK said: “GlastoNav is the best way to find your way around the Glastonbury festival site and make sure you and your mates don’t miss a thing. The brand new, innovative augmented reality app will also ensure iPhone users can find out a range of information from where the nearest toilet is to where they pitched their tents.”

The GlastoNav app will be available for free from the iTunes App Store for as long as the festival is running – that’s 23rd to 27th June.

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Time Travel Now Possible in London – via AR and an iPhone

May 20, 2010 Click to read more →
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I’m always interested in the history of where I’m living – and now that I live in London I’m surrounded by it every day. Sometimes though, looking through journals or museum exhibits isn’t enough. For me having history leap out at me as I walk around would be the ultimate – well, short of having [...]

Flash Mobs now Featuring Augmented Reality Sith Lords and Superman!

April 23, 2010 Click to read more →
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Fancy having standing next to Darth Vader, Superman or other such celebs? All you need to do is load up your iPhone or Android blower with QR codes with your choice of hero/villain and head to Amsterdam’s Dam Square tomorrow at 2pm. If there’s noone on the site that tickles your fancy you can create [...]

Augmented Reality Rock, Paper, Scissors T-Shirt – Arm Busts out of Chest

January 24, 2010 Click to read more →
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Perhaps one of the lowest-tech games, Rock-Paper-Scissors (even the game devices are low tech!), has just been given the AR treatment. To the naked eye, the shirt is a ‘normal’ tribute to the game Rock-Paper-Scissors. The geek magic happens once you place yourself in front of a puter that’s set to T-post’s special web app [...]

Parrot AR.Drone Mixes iPhone, Augmented Reality and Wi-Fi Controlled Helicopter to Make Want!

January 6, 2010 Click to read more →
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Say hello to the latest reason to get excited if you own an iPhone. Using the handsets accelerometer and connecting via Wi-Fi you can fly the Parrot AR.Drone! As if that wasn’t cool enough it has two on-board cameras that beam a pilots-eye view right to your phones screen. This means that you don’t need [...]

Layar – The Mobile Augmented Reality App For Android and iPhone

October 15, 2009 Click to read more →
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Layar is another Augmented Reality app but, because it allows third-party developers to contribute ‘layers’ to their platform, it stands out from the rest such as Kooaba. You see – most other AR apps pull their data from search engines, Wikipedia or review-based sites. Layar’s intuative interface has four clear sections that list layers by [...]

Baseball Cards Get Augmented Reality

March 9, 2009 Click to read more →

If you’re from the USA and/or an avid card collector you may be aware that Topps was recently bought out by Disney. In an effort to make collecting Baseball cards, etc cool once more they’re debuting 3D augmented reality versions. So, instead of a flat card with stats you get all the info plus a tiny player standing there in [...]

Otaku Can Peep At AR Alice

July 20, 2008 Click to read more →

Let me introduce you to the very cool (if not a little scary) world of Augmented reality (AR). This is the combination of virtual worlds and reality and could lead to extremely useful applications in navigation systems, medicine, architecture and many other fields. Geisha Tokyo Entertainment Inc. [JP] now found a way to help all [...]