Google granted patent for bendy Google Glass-style device
Google's latest approved patent is for a flexible heads-up display that could be the next version of Google Glass. More
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Prototype designs use augmented reality to make urban cycling safer
A headset that shows cyclists safer routes through the city in realtime and a projectable blind-spot visualisation for buses and lorries are among the speculative prototypes developed by a team from Future Cities Catapult (+ movie). More
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Augmented reality
MINI's augmented-reality glasses allow drivers to see through the body of their car
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in this exclusive video interview, Jörg Preißinger of BMW Group Research and Technology explains how the prototype augmented-reality glasses his team have developed can make the solid parts of a car appear transparent. More
Sony to release SmartEyeglass devices next month
News: Sony has announced that it will make its augmented reality eyewear prototype available for developers, following news that Google pulled sales of its own headset last month (+ movie). More
Microsoft's HoloLens headset combines high-definition holograms with the real world
News: Microsoft has revealed an early version of an augmented reality headset called HoloLens that creates interactive holographic imagery in the wearer's field of vision (+ slideshow). More
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Augmented reality
The city of the future "will be both physical and digital"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: cities in the future will exist in both a physical and digital form says William Trossell of 3D-scanning company ScanLAB, who claims the lines between the two "will become increasingly blurred" (+ movie). More
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Augmented reality
Architects could become "closer to game designers or filmmakers"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architecture education is failing to understand how technology is changing our cities says Keiichi Matsuda, who foresees the profession “splitting into two parts” thanks to digital advances (+ movie). More
Microsoft's RoomAlive transforms any room "into an augmented interactive display"
News: technology company Microsoft's research branch has combined projection mapping with motion sensors to turn enclosed spaces into immersive augmented experiences. More
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Augmented reality
Keiichi Matsuda to "explore the future of the city" in new film
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: London designer Keiichi Matsuda shows us how he is making his new film about the future of augmented reality in the next preview of our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition. More
Barbecana by Edward Mascarenhas turns the Barbican into a video game
A graduate from the Bartlett School of Architecture has turned the iconic Barbican Estate in London into the setting for a proposed augmented-reality video game (+ movie). More
Maaike Roozenburg combines augmented reality and digital prototyping to create smart fakes
Dutch designer Maaike Roozenburg uses 3D printing to create replicas of antique objects enhanced with a layer of augmented reality information in her SmartReplicas project, reports Gabrielle Kennedy (+ slideshow). More
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Augmented reality
Augmented reality road markings and signage "could be applied as a digital layer"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: London designer Keiichi Matsuda explains how augmented reality could transform the way we navigate the city in the first of our video interviews with designers participating in our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition. More
15Folds presents augmented reality exhibition of animated gif art
A London exhibition of animated gifs allowed visitors to view artworks via a custom-designed app on a smart phone or tablet using augmented reality. More
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Augmented reality
Drawing in 3D will soon be as "intuitive as sketching with paper"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architects will soon be able to walk around inside 3D sketches of their projects and edit their designs as they go, according to the team behind the revolutionary Gravity Sketch 3D drawing pad. More
BMW unveils Vision Future Luxury car with augmented reality display
German car manufacturer BMW has unveiled Vision Future Luxury, a saloon concept car featuring augmented display technology (+ slideshow). More
Gravity tablet makes 3D drawing "as easy as doodling on a piece of paper"
A group of students from the Royal College of Art have invented a virtual reality tool that allows designers to sketch in three dimensions (+ movie). More
Augmented reality app by Universal Everything creates "immersive world" for Radiohead's music
Dezeen Music Project: UK visualisation studio Universal Everything has designed an augmented reality app that lets users navigate and manipulate digital environments that accompany music by British band Radiohead (+ movie). More
Architects slow to embrace augmented reality, says visualisation expert Andy Millns
News: architects have been surprisingly slow to adopt augmented reality as a design tool, according to co-founder of visualisation studio Inition Andy Millns. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More
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Augmented reality
Virtual and augmented reality technology will converge in digital "contact lens"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: augmented and virtual reality visualisation technologies will soon be combined in one device, says Andy Millns of 3D production company Inition in the final part of our interview. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More
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Augmented reality
Augmented reality devices "in your eye" will change how we see the world
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: augmented reality technology will revolutionise the way we navigate cities, says Andy Millns of 3D production company Inition in the second part of our interview. More