Inside the student project that turns Pittsburgh into an augmented reality playground
An intriguing new form of AR art leaves video treats around the city for users to discover.
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The amazing Leviathan turns the movie theater into an aquatic fantasy
If experimental forms of narrative intrigue you, then you will love Leviathan, the new storytelling initiative shown off by Intel at CES this week. As with all cross-media projects, Leviathan can be hard to describe, but here’s what you need to know: a giant, magnificent whale sails off the screen a
Augmented reality gets a lot more real in these short films
Filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a series of futuristic short films that will both illustrate our augmented-reality future and be ripped off in every sci-fi videogame and film between now and then. Dubbed Hyper-Reality: A New Vision of the Future, the proposed se
PKPKT is the mobile game that promotes real-life pickpocketing
Hacking into an innocent bystander’s cell phone and stealing their currency is a criminal activity. It could land you in jail. We are not advocating that. We are, however, in full support of PKPKT, the mobile “in real life” game about standing on a street corner and fishing for “suckers” with open b
Smart glass will lead the way to a spike in augmented reality games
With the coming of age of wearable computer technology like Google Glass (and not like this), the use of augmented reality is posed to accelerate by a lot in the coming years. A new report predicts a “paradigm shift” where AR use will expand by 333 percent by the year 2018, increasing from 60 milli