Tag: Augmented Reality

A Great Travel Companion

There are many little apps for the iPhone that come in very handy for traveling, but this one really caught me by surprise!  The app translates printed text on the fly in real time.  It substitutes the words it sees in print with the translation.  It’s rather remarkable, really—a new breed of language dictionary is born. Check out Word Lens… Continue reading

Some Crazy Creativity Going On Out There

AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo. If you want to actually do this, and interact with the 3D augmented reality as you see here, just check out this link. You will need to print out the page in step one. Go to the web address. And then hold the printout in front of your web camera. It’s actually… Continue reading

Augmented Reality Fascinates Me

Of the 10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010, this last one most interests me. I’ll be curious to see where this takes us. Finally: Real, Cool and Very Bizarre Online-Offline Integration Virtual worlds, games and avatars were just the beginning of the online-offline integration. In 2010 we’ll see a greater push on this front as distance and physical… Continue reading