#augmented-reality stories

Mark Zuckerberg gave us a taste of his vision of the future at the Facebook annual global developer conference F8, …

The lines between virtual and real are fast becoming blurred thanks to the convergence of virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D printing and 3D scanning.

Tango — Google’s augmented reality platform for smartphones — enables mobiles to map and detect their position relative to the world around them.

Imagine a real-world use-case for Augmented Reality: you meet a person and see a floating data bubble about them in real-time. This, in itself, will promote completely new social structures of how we live, work, and interact with people.

Chasing fictional monsters on a screen made me come to terms with the fact that I had never explored my neighbourhood properly before.