“The World’s First Augmented Reality Browser. Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows you what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality though the camera of the mobile phone.”
[Layar]
Better Place / Shai Agassi / battery / cars / energy / environment / transportation / videos
May 13, 2009 0
This is a demonstration of the world’s first automated battery switch technology for electric vehicles in Yokohama, Japan. Better Place will own the batteries and charging stations and it will sell subscriptions just like your mobile phone.
This video shows a man controlling a robot using only his thoughts. It’s “mind” blowing. <- rly?!
[via pink tentacle]
Augmented reality meets sketchup in this short film by Bruce Branit.
[Bruce Branit | Vimeo]
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This is a demonstration of Siftables (cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands) by MIT grad student David Merrill. These impressive toys can do simple math, create music, and communicate with each other. Now this is what I call “hands on learning“.
[MIT Labcast | Ted]
“Internet Famous Class is dedicated to learning how to spread your work to the widest possible audience online. It’s also the first algorithmically graded class in the history of academics.”
BEST CLASS EVAR!!!!!!!!!
(apologies for the lowfi video quality!)
I’m not sure if this is the first augmented reality marketing campaign ever but it’s the first I’ve seen. The folks at GE obviously want a slice of the ’smart grid’ action. This campaign is super slick and has an incredible website. It’s worth checking out so follow the links below:
