Enjoy glamping among blossoms, soaking in herbal hot springs, and shooting virtual dinosaurs hiding among the trees on your next weekend away.
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These Bandai band-aids come with an app that lets Super Sentai or PreCure characters wish away the pain. Aww!
If Nintendo won’t make a sequel, you can make one yourself, and turn your home into a haunted house, for just a few bucks.
There are many practical uses for the Apple ARKit, and scaring the living daylights out of your children is most certainly one of them.
The Vocaloid star has been secretly hiding in your smart phone, just waiting for the right application to let her loose.
As we’ve said before, the PlayStation 4’s PlayStation Camera is a woefully underused device. Gamers who enjoy streaming footage of the games they play often use their cameras to capture their own expressions and add real-time commentary, and upcoming virtual reality headset Project Morpheus will make use of the unit to provide additional head tracking, but otherwise it gets relatively little love.
Fortunately, Sony Japan looks to be working on content that will inspire a few more PlayStation 4 owners to plug in their cameras. In two videos released last week, Sony staff show off their experiments with augmented reality, which combines real-world footage with computer-generated images that respond to a number of stimuli. These may only be tech demos, but the sight of a miniature T-rex hiding in the darkness, a man decanting water (complete with rubber duck!) between two virtual boxes, and even a short performance from a tiny Hatsune Miku on the living room rug left us thirsty for more.
















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