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Earlier this week Nokia released an update to City Lens, its augmented reality app for Lumia smartphones. City Lens is built on Nokia’s LiveSight mapping API , which overlays the Lumia camera display with information about what's around you-- or in some cases, less. For example, the updated City...

One of the most popular apps for Windows Phone became available on Windows Phone 8 this week. The app has over 1 million downloads and average ratings between 4 and 5 stars since release . In short, it’s a killer app for Windows Phone that combines augmented reality translation using the camera...

This year’s ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI, for short) wraps up today in Austin. It sounds like it was another amazing year for the conference. What’s really great about CHI is that it gives you a panorama of how technology and experience design is being...

It’s been a week of augmented reality and blending of physical and digital stories this week on NEXT. I was going to hold this post until next week but decided to add it in to the mix. SSENSE from Montreal recently released what they called the “world’s first interactive shoppable music...

Nokia City Lens first showed up at CES and is now available for the Nokia Lumia 710 , Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 900 . It can be downloaded from Nokia Beta Labs . It’s much like other augmented reality apps you may have seen for smartphones in that it uses a combination of the compass and...

Photo: University of Washington I spotted this one from my friends at PSFK . For a good while now, the University of Washington has been working on technology that bring the movie predictions of a bionic eye a little closer to reality. Remember in Terminator when Arnold Schwarzenegger pans around...