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Augmented Reality: 5 Ways it Can Change Your World

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Corina Mackay at the Social Media Examiner writes about Augmented Reality: 5 Ways it Can Change Your World. Augmented Reality, the technology that enables the placement of layers of information over real-world locations and environments is becoming steadily more mainstream. Check out these 5 ways it will change things in the near future.

  • #1: Games
  • #2: Safety
  • #3: Politics
  • #4: Art
  • #5: Sales

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Augmented Reality App for Shelf Reading

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Audrey Watters at ReadWriteWeb reports that an Awesome Augmented Reality App Could Save Librarians Hours. This exciting new app, developed by undergraduate research assistant Matt Hodges, uses the Android’s camera to “read” a bookshelf, and with an Augmented Reality overlay, quickly flags those books that are misplaced. It will also point to the correct place on the bookshelf so the book can easily be re-shelved correctly. It will be demoed at the Association of College and Research Libraries 2011 conference.

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