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iFeel_IM robotics: Online touchy feely

Impact: Virtual/Augmented Reality    April 14, 2010
This story comes under the heading: “They said this was going to happen – now it’s almost here.” It is a wearable robotic device that provides a real sensory element to a personal contact over the Internet. More specifically, it interprets emotional language embedded in Internet Messaging (IM), which is why it’s called iFeel_IM (intelligent [...]
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Augmented reality: The smart windshield

News: Virtual/Augmented Reality    March 18, 2010
Calling it an ‘enhanced vision system,’ General Motors (GM, USA) has announced an augmented reality windshield. Projections of driving information such as speed or route directions onto windshields (or mirrors) are already in use on some high-end vehicles. What makes the GM windshield different is its projection of analytical information over what the motorist is [...]
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Pervasive Gaming

Impact: Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality    February 9, 2010
If you’re not a gamer (one who plays computer-based games), and maybe even if you are; you may not be aware of a relatively new ‘field of study’ called pervasive gaming. Don’t go off on the wrong track with “all-pervasive” gaming; this is localized. Pervasive gaming is heralded as an ‘emerging genre.’ (How’s that for [...]
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Augmented Reality really goes mobile

Impact: Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality    January 18, 2010
If you define GPS locating as part of Augmented Reality (AR), and most do, then mobile devices went AR some time ago. So “Augmented Reality really goes mobile” might mean that AR on mobile devices is a natural hookup, and we can expect to see much more of it. Okay. That’s probably so true, but [...]
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