Uninvited DIY exhibition at MoMA NYC

http://site.layar.com/company/blog/uninvited-diy-exhibition-at-moma-nyc/

A Twinkle in the Eye, Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens

A new generation of contact lenses built with very small circuits and LEDs promises bionic eyesight.

Photos: University of Washington
Second Sight: In recent trials, rabbits wore lenses containing metal circuit structures for 20 minutes at a time with no adverse effects.

Is Augmented Reality here to stay?

There's a nice piece in the New York Times Sunday Magazine about Augmented Reality. From the new Yelp iPhone app that allows you to see restaurants' ratings by holding up your iPhone in front of the restaurant while standing in the street, to the new James Cameron film "Avatar" where the action figures from the movie are sold with an AR component. Even Burger King is in on the AR action.

Read the article here.

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augmented reality- cyclopedia

cyclopedia is an augmented reality application that overlays information from wikipedia onto the viewfinder. the application uses the iphone camera, compass and GPS to situate the device and combines this with the wikipedia database. by moving your iphone around, wikipedia entries will begin to pop-up. these entries tell you about what you are looking at in reality and link to the full entries on wikipedia. the application also allows you to search wikipedia through google maps, pinpointing each entry as a physical location. there are currently 65,000 entries in wikipedia that have geotagged but any user can add an entry at anytime. via designboom
http://www.chemicalwedding.tv/cyclopedia.html