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Augmented Reality

Yelp’s new easter egg is cool, but it might be bad for all of us

August 29, 2009

Yelp provided a sneaky way to get augmented reality in their new app, but they might have made things worse for all of us.  In a post yesterday on TechCrunch, Matt Galligan thinks that this move might make Apple look even harder at each app approval — taking longer for each one, and rejecting a [...]

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Yelp sneaks some augmented reality on your phone

August 27, 2009

The new Yelp 3.0 app is pretty slick, with a handful of new features.  The best one, however, is undocumented — a very slick augmented reality view. We talked about augmented reality a bit with the Wikitude app a few days ago, but Yelp is the first US-based one we’ve seen.  To access it on [...]

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Wikitude app coming to iPhone soon

August 26, 2009

One of the hottest category of apps we’ll see in the next year are is likely the Augmented Reality apps.  These are programs that allow you to look through your camera, and see the world beyond it with information overlays on it.  The possibilities of these kinds of apps are endless. One of the first [...]

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