Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality World | 拡張現実と仮想現実の世界

Download free app: http://www.kooaba.com/shortcut (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone)

The media app kooaba Shortcut is literally a shortcut between real life and the internet: Take a picture of what you are reading in a newspaper or magazine and instantly get connected to the digital version. Now you can store, email or share it with others. No more typing links into your phone, googling for information or cutting out articles - Just take a picture. Shortcut also works with advertisements and billboards or any other image where you see the Shortcut icon.

No QR Codes needed, works with image recognition. This is the basis for Augmented Reality (AR).
See all titles Shortcut works with: http://www.kooaba.com/shortcut

ARモードでは、ソフトに同梱されている専用のARカードを使って、日常風景にキャラクターたちを呼び出すことができます。方法は簡単、ARカードを3DSのカメラで映すだけ！あなたの部屋が小さなライブ会場や撮影スタジオになっちゃいます。同梱されるARカードには、「ライブカード」と「キャラカード」の２種類があります。

The character goods makerTakara Tomy A.R.T.S will releaseKid Icarus: Uprising (Shin Hikari Shinwa: Parutena no Kagamichocolate ball snacks on March 12.

Each snack package will come with one of 20 random augmented-reality cards that interact with the Kid Icarus: Uprising Nintendo 3DS game. Players who snap the cards with their Nintendo 3DS system'scameras will see the characters on the cards spring out in 3D animation. Each snack package will cost 105 yen (about US$1.35).

(via http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-02-12/kid-icarus-chocolate-balls-on-sale-next-month)

Is it me, or has Macy’s digital marketing been pretty cool lately? I mean, hipper than that killer HGTV inside look at what it takes to decorate the Macy’s New York store at Christmas COOL?

Since augmented reality seems to be the topic of the month, we’ve found another fragrance launch for you leveraging the cutting edge technology. Wonderstruck Taylor Swift has launched a Team Wonderstruck Tumblr designed with a theme by From Me To You in order start seeding buzz about the international one week tweetstakes and augmented reality campaign that launches for the Wonderstruck Taylor Swift Fragrance, Sunday, February 5th, 2012.

Download the Taylor Swift Wonderstruck app (available on the iPhone App Store and Android Market), take a photo with Taylor at a Macy’s retail location at a Wonderstruck fragrance counter, and share the photo on Twitter with the hashtag, #YouMakeMeWonderstruck.  Winners will be selected at random and will be contacted via Direct Message (DM) on Twitter.

Full steps on how to enter:

• Step 1: Follow @Macys & @GetWonderstruck on Twitter
• Step 2: Download the latest version of the Taylor Swift Wonderstruck app
• Step 3: Visit the nearest Macy’s store (use the in-app GPS technology to guide you!)
• Step 4: Take an augmented reality picture with Taylor Swift using the “PhotoShare” feature in the Taylor Swift Wonderstruck app at a Macy’s Wonderstruck counter
• Step 5: Share photo on Twitter using the #YouMakeMeWonderstruck hashtag via the Taylor Swift Wonderstruck app
• Step 6: Winners will be selected at random and will be contacted via Direct Message (DM) on Twitter.

http://bit.ly/xITx1H - Watch and share "A Day Made of Glass 2: Unpacked," to see how Corning's highly engineered glass, with companion technologies, will help shape our world. Take a journey with our narrator for details on these technologies, answers to your questions, and to learn about what's possible -- and what's not -- in the near future.

Window Shopper, a new mobile app available for iPhone, uses augmented reality to allow users to cover their own windows in real time in a matter of seconds, transforming the way people shop for window treatments. With the Window Shopper app, trying on window blinds and shades is now as easy as trying on a shirt at the mall. This tool give homeowners all the creative power and support they need to choose the perfect window treatments without stepping foot inside a big box store or decorators shop.The thing we hear most often from customers who are on the fence about buying online is, I dont know what the blinds will look like. The Window Shopper eliminates that worry completely, said Blinds.com CEO Jay Steinfeld.

Discover the world of Augmented Reality with the Philadelphia Science Festival and Science Interpreter Shoshanna Pokras from The Franklin Institute.

Shake It Up™ is a rallying cry and a philosophy that playfully challenges people to explore new, exciting ways of doing things. If you've nodded off a bit in life, maybe it's time to shake things up. The Tic Tac Viewr mobile application is now available for FREE to help you make the mundane world new and exciting! Use the app to dial down the boring and turn up the new and different. To get the app, text "MINTS" to 313131 (standard message/data rates apply) or look for the app in the Android Market and the Apple App Store.

(via YouTube by TicTacUSA )

With the use of augmented reality technology, Dominos were able to include a lot more in their bus stop ads than just a picture. Anyone with a smart phone can download blippAR and access the augmented features of the Dominos ad.

Geozet, massive AR content creation and sharing platform, allows user to creation own AR contents on any objects with enough textures. For some business cards with pictures, patterns and other complex textures, you can instantly add AR contents such as video greetings or 3D files on to them.We use term "Visual Tag" on placing AR contents on to AR targets. After Visual Tag your AR messages on your business card, you just hand them out on every business occasions. And let them know they can watch AR message through Geozet.

(via YouTube by MrZenitum )

Agencja komunikacji Hypermedia Isobar przygotowała dla marki Hoop Cola innowacyjną platformę do interakcji z konsumentami, w skład której wchodził pierwszy w Polsce interaktywny video billboard, technologia augmented reality, streaming video współpracujący z technologią SMS oraz integrujący wszystkie te elementy serwis internetowy. 

(via YouTube by HPMtube)

Aim of this project is creating a prototype natural, interactive augmented reality exposure therapy system to treat arachnophobia.

Microsoft's Kinect is used to map the tabletop environment, determine occlusion, and track foreground objects for interaction.

Exhibition including 24/7 outdoor section in augmented realityhttp://tropenmuseum.nl/66739 In the "Death matters" exhibition in the Tropenmuseum Amsterdam you will discover how different people deal with death worldwide. Four personal stories about the afterlife come to life, for real. Visualized in augmented reality, to be experienced using your own smartphone.

Available 24/7 & seven days a week. Open Layar "Tropenmuseum" in front of the museum entrance to view.

"Death Matters" - till august 2012 - Tropenmuseum Amsterdam

Using photos from Facebook on ecards.
http://www.free-bday-cards.com

(via YouTube by EgAdrian )

Using Aurasma in Maths at HeathfieldCPS

(via YouTube by nwroadster)