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Will virtual reality give you FOMO?
You probably weren’t invited anyway.
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This augmented reality installation will melt your brain and your hand
Marvel at the utter weirdness of your own limbs in the Augmented Reality Hand Series.
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The beautiful augmented reality dreamscape of Wuxia the Fox
Eight years ago, around the time when the word “transmedia” first started getting tossed around, Jonathan Belisle began collecting his dreams into an ill-defined storyworld. “I started writing the story of a young girl named Oremia, who dreamed about whales. It was nothing structured. Mostly an aggr
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Watch this augmented reality game make London’s Barbican Estate an epic playspace
Can games help re-appropriate underused urban spaces?
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Brian Eno’s new app turns ordinary vinyl into invisible cities of sound
Brian Eno has a new album, which is not surprising since the father of ambient music stays pretty busy. But what is surprising and rather amazing is the killer companion app for the album, which is a collaboration with Karl Hyde of Underworld called Someday World. The augmented reality toy (for iPho
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Sony’s augmented reality tech is getting scarily realistic
Although Sony is betting big on VR, the engineers at Sony Japan, who apparently wear white lab coats, continue to chisel away at perfecting that other reality: augment reality. Since the days of the EyeToy, the giant tech corporation has been continuously improving their camera software that lets yo
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This gun creates a wormhole between you and your friend’s apartment
At an event like Game Developers Conference, it’s easy to get your various incarnations of reality scrambled. Virtual reality has a bigger presence than ever this year, and there’s always augmented reality looming, but there are also the non-categorizable forms: projects that blur the boundaries bet
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"A Rape in Cyberspace" gets remade for the IRL era
Julian Dibbell’s cyberspace classic is just as relevant as it was twenty years ago.
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A checklist for how not to get punched wearing Google Glass
It seems Google is aware that their newfangled augmented reality eyewear has a public image problem, with privacy issues surfacing around facial recognition software and the fact that early adopters are basically positing themselves as geeky, walking camcorders. So the tech giant has put together a
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More mass transit should feature free augmented reality games
The public transit system in Aberdeen, Scotland has placed onboard entertainment on the backs of the bus seats.
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Al Franken is very worried about facial recognition on Google Glass
Senator Al Franken has spoken out against Nametag, one of the first facial recognition apps for Google Glass, saying that we “cannot reasonably prevent [ourselves] from being identified” by the all-seeing eye of geeks with amazing eyepieces. The app scans the faces of everyone in your vicinity and g
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Videogames on Google Glass are as bizarre as you’d expect
Google has put together a sizzle reel, a term I’m using completely ironically, to show off what their Google Glass eyewear can do for games. These augmented mini-games feature not-so-riveting gameplay, such as pretending to balance books on the Android robot’s head, bouncing a tennis ball from your