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Engadget is running a piece about a new game from PlayStation that goes with their PS-Eye camera, called the EyePet. Essentially it's an augmented reality tamagotchi - the little critter needs to be fed, loved, cleaned and so on, and walks around your living room. But what questions does this raise for the future of real pets?

Scientists at MIT have revealed a clever new method of detecting markers, to appear in SIGGRAPH 2009. The method could potentially replace standard barcodes, QR codes, and even RFIDs, for certain applications. Its effect on augmented reality could be substantial.

Most of the web AR apps found today are toys. Literally, or really just basic demonstratrations of marker capture technologoy. The USPS Priority Mail Virtual Box Simulator shows that they can actually have practical use.

Proper augmented reality apps coming to the iPhone 3GS from version 3.1

Augmented Reality (AR) is nothing new. In one shape or form, the concept has been around for decades – taking the world we live in and adding something artificial to it. We love the concept. Every sci-fi story worth its salt has a character that uses a HUD with some kind of cool [...]