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The full-3D holographic Fifa World Cup won’t happen.

By Akihabara News Team - [6/12/2010 - 02:34] - 0 - Displays Science

The word was out a few days ago, the 2022 Fifa World Cup will take place in Qatar. As much as we want to congratulate them, we can’t refrain from shedding a tear, for it means Japan won’t host the technological marvel annou[...]

The full-3D holographic Fifa World Cup won’t happen.

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Parrot Announces AR.Pursuit, AR.Drone’s First AR Game

By Akihabara News Team - [22/11/2010 - 10:33] - 0 - Toy

Parrot, makers of Bluetooth car hands-free sets and the pricey but awesome AR.Drone, has announced the first augmented reality game for the iPhone-controlled quadrocopter. The AR.Pursuit, for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, requires two [...]

Parrot Announces AR.Pursuit, AR.Drone’s First AR Game

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Docomo F-01C Featurephone from Fujitsu

By Akihabara News Team - [10/11/2010 - 02:31] - 0 - Press Conference Phones

As part of the winter 2010 ~ spring 2011 lineup of Docomo’s PRIME series of featurephones is Fujitsu’s F-01C, a high-spec waterproof clamshell with a 3.4-inch touchscreen on a swiveling neck. Its body is only 13.9 mm (half [...]

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[CEATEC 2010] DoCoMo leading CEATEC in mobile, 3D and AR industry (Video)

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [7/10/2010 - 04:09] - 0 - Displays Phones Tablet - PDA

Fujitsu was one of the most exciting booth at 2010 CEATEC, but DoCoMo’s one, was by far the most impressive one with many new concept and products. AR Walker, DoCoMo’s augmented reality pinnacle (Photo Gallery). In collaboration with O[...]

[CEATEC 2010] DoCoMo leading CEATEC in mobile, 3D and AR industry (Video)

[Shameless Promotion] ARDefender, the best iPhone 4 AR Game yet.

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [1/10/2010 - 02:25] - 1 - Gaming

Granted that I may not be very objective on this one, since the guys at Int13 are friends, sure I wish this application could be Retina Display compatible and would love to see more “AR Tags” available, as well as a multiplayer mode, b[...]

[Shameless Promotion] ARDefender, the best iPhone 4 AR Game yet.

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AR Convenience Store Locator App

By Akihabara News Team - [24/9/2010 - 04:08] - 0 - Phones

Apple iDevice app development company Presselite have released a new app for iPhones, コンビニ, on the App Store. It uses augmented reality to help users find the nearest convenience stores (closer than 1 km) in Tokyo by overlaying icons o[...]

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Tabi Nabi, Panasonic first GPS approved by Kyoto’s Geisha.

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [7/9/2010 - 01:42] - 2 - Press Conference Gps

Panasonic unveiled this morning a new GPS, the CN-SG500 Series also call “Tabi Nabi”. Unlike most other GPS, this model has been primarily designed has an handled GPS rather than a car mounted one. In a rather bulky and not so elegant [...]

Tabi Nabi, Panasonic first GPS approved by Kyoto’s Geisha.

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Brother head-mounted display to be display to the public this september

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [21/7/2010 - 04:56] - 4 - Displays None

Unfortunately not yet made available to the public and style announced as a prototype, Brother latest Head-mounted display as now however an official name : AiRScouter. Brother confirmed that these AiRScouters are now lighter (the AiR [...]

Brother head-mounted display to be display to the public this september

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[Wireless Japan 2010] DoCoMo will help you to be a better golfer.

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [14/7/2010 - 05:17] - 0 - Phones

Another interesting R&D Project from DoCoMo Today and this time with a AR Golf application. Made for Android and running on their X10, this software thanks to the phone GPS will give you extremely accurate information on different[...]

[Wireless Japan 2010] DoCoMo will help you to be a better golfer.

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[Wireless Japan 2010] AU enhanced Sekai Camera with its own AR content.

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [14/7/2010 - 02:52] - 0 - Phones

I am sure that you have all heard about Sekai Camera, a software developed by a Japanese company that thanks to AR (Augmented Reality) will let you see comments, notes and remarks from other USERS once you are pointing your mobile phon[...]

[Wireless Japan 2010] AU enhanced Sekai Camera with its own AR content.

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DoCoMo Augmented Reality Concept at Wireless Japan 09

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [22/7/2009 - 02:31] - 0 - Phones

AR or Augmented Reality is the next big thing, and the more powerful our mobile devices are more future AR applications will come to a handset near you. Today DoCoMo thanks to their latest HTC Android Phone demonstrated the power of AR[...]