Keyword: augmented reality
Google working on two ultra secret futuristic tech products
Two secret products Google is famous for experimenting. With the depth of their funding, the company can invest in secret projects, some of which come to fruition, others of which never do. Google’s deep pockets have funded driver-less cars in a futuristic move, while investing in a mobile operating system without the original intent being to dominate half of the ...
Augmented Reality on all smartphones within three years?
How AR could go mainstream in a short time Augmented Reality (AR) is a concept we’ve covered for years, asserting that it would eventually replace QR codes and various smartphone apps, but it has recently been announced that the days of AR going mainstream are much closer than many had imagined, as AR pioneers, Metaio has announced a formal partnership ...
Harvard grad’s design could prove interactive buildings possible in the future
Award winning concept Harvard Graduate School of Design graduate, Greg Tran says 3D is currently confused with a digital 2D representation that appears to the eye as a third dimension, but is not. His award winning thesis, Mediating Mediums is demonstrated above and gives hints as to how augmented reality could be used not only in architectural design, but perhaps ...
Tagwhat sharing now live – Realtors, grab your farm area first at no cost
Tagwhat now live for Realtors Last month, it was rumored that augmented reality app, Tagwhat would launch a real estate channel for their stories app, allowing users to look through their mobile “like a window,” and stories pop up as “tags” right on top of their actual locations in real life. While there are more features than what we just ...
Tagwhat augmented reality app may offer a real estate channel, get there first
Tagwhat circa 2010 We introduced you to the Tagwhat augmented reality (AR) app in early 2010 and have watched it turn into a completely robust system with new features that we feel strongly have major real estate implications. The app originally allowed users to hold up their phone to write and see other users’ notes above buildings, landmarks, parks, theaters ...
Real estate implications for augmented reality cinema technology
Augmented reality and real estate Augmented reality is the overlaying of a computer generated image on to a real life situation by using a camera, either webcam or cell phone camera and is already being used in real estate by brokerages like Zip Realty whose Home Scan iPhone app utilized augmented reality. Users can hold up their GPS-enabled phone in ...
Very futuristic shopping- more advanced than a virtual tour
Brokerage of the future? This is like Jetson’s style futuristic… Imagine your client comes to your office in 2021 because the apocalypse hasn’t happened yet and we all have jet packs because the Jetson’s promised them to us. Your client is a young couple looking for their first home and you all sit together and look at a large screen ...
Ultra geeky augmented reality technological advancement
International augmented reality application developer company, acrossair boasts one of the first augmented reality apps in the iPhone App Store. Acrossair launched a unique iPhone app called the acrossair browser which is an augmented reality (AR) app that uses 3D navigation to show geo-located data that surrounds the user. The reason the acrossair browser is an ultra geeky tech advancement ...
Augmented reality is great but are paid ads jumping the shark?
Augmented reality adds ads Augmented reality is the overlaying of a computer generated image on to a real life situation by using a camera, for example with a webcam or cell phone camera. We’ve explained augmented reality and discussed its implications in real estate, but we haven’t talked in depth quite yet about the advertising already existing on augmented reality ...
Tagwhat – augmented reality for real estate [EXCLUSIVE]
Tagwhat for all agents Last month when we told about Tagwhat, an augmented reality (AR) application that allows you to tag any place with information, allowing other users to hold their phone up and see your tags in real time. We realized immediately the implications of Tagwhat in the real estate industry and have since spent some time talking to ...
Social media plus augmented reality equals Tagwhat
Augmented reality gets real We’ve talked about the basics of augmented reality and its real estate implications but haven’t seen a widely applicable augmented reality application that can be used in daily life by all people. In steps Tagwhat, an app that turns your world into an augmented reality social network. You can tag anything anywhere and even make notes ...
Bing Maps Add Augmented Reality, Dwarfs Google Maps
TED Talk blows us away Blaise Aguera y Arcas is the architect of Being Maps at Microsoft, you may remember his demonstration of Photosynth a few years back. In the TED2010 Talk below, Blaise demonstrates Microsoft Bing’s new augmented reality mapping technology and while the first few minutes are slow, watch the entire video because it will blow your mind. ...













