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Nokia Phones Heading to 3D and More Augemented Reality

by Jay Garrett on February 22, 2010

According to the video on Nokia Conversations (Nokia’s official blog) that happens to feature Jo Harlow, SVP of Smartphones, Nok’s future will include more AR and 3D on their handsets.

Jo shows no qualms when mentioning that Nokia is looking at enhancing the likes of Ovi Maps with augmented reality,

She then dives into the realm of entertainment and since “everyone’s talking about 3D” Jo reckons that there’s an opportunity for mobiles to get to the 3D promised-land quicker than television.

This means 3D games and other content “could be very, very interesting in terms of enhancing that experience.”

We’ve already seen the Nok tablet rocking a specially made stereoscopic screen so this all looks promising.

We might actually see Nokia’s Mixed Reality dream come true :)

Watch the chat in full below:

Pic from Gizmo Watch

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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 and switch on your web cam.

An eerie green arm emerges from your chest to challenge you to a hand game of chance…………

Check out the vid below :)

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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 to see the [...]

Japanese Man to Marry Nene Anegasaki – Who Happens to be an Anime Game Character

November 26, 2009 Click to read more →
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Ah…….. that feeling of finding your perfect partner.
You see them and suddenly you drift off into a different reality.
If you spend most of your time on the interweb you may even get romantically involved with someone’s avatar before you actually get to see each other for real….
….or perhaps you fall in love with a virtual [...]

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 name [...]

Kooaba – Augmented Reality app For iPhone and Android

September 15, 2009 Click to read more →
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Tearing out pages, piling them up on a dusty stack of paper, and having difficulties finding them again belongs to the past. Now, smartphone users have the possibility to collect interesting print articles by just taking a picture of them with kooaba’s mobile application (currently available for iPhone and Android).
Using kooaba on your mobile gives [...]

Nokia Mixed Reality Looks to the Keyboardless and Screenless Future

September 9, 2009 Click to read more →
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The video below gives a glimpse of how Nokia Future Tech Research Centre sees the future-world.
Thanks to special eyewear, earpieces and tech jewelry you’ll be able to surf, communicate and interact with all your other stuff.
In other words Nok sees that you’ll be able to experience effortless navigation in an immersive Augmented Reality environment.
The [...]

Augmented Reality Comes to RPG’s and Board Games

March 17, 2009 Click to read more →

There’s gonna come a time when regular toys aren’t gonna be able to cut it along the side of lovely, new, shiny technology.
Perhaps they could still find a place in augmented reality?
Have a look at this little battle game created by Frantz Lasorne, a French designer whose Master thesis is about augmented reality toys using [...]

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 the palm [...]