Esquire is teasing its upcoming December issue as a new “living, breathing, moving, talking magazine,” using 3-D technology and augmented reality to integrate real images and graphics with both its articles and advertisements. The issue features six interactive “boxes” and at least one Lexus ad in which readers can use their computers to see bonus three-dimensional features. Will this lure advertisers? It better.

In college, I imagined a system that would record, from the moment of birth until the time of death, any person’s movements and gestures and, through the use of some sort of goggles, would superimpose those movements over the world around him. For example, you’d be able, with these goggles, to see multiple manifestations of [...]

It’s not like we aren’t already okay with replacing body parts. I don’t know too may Hollywood actresses with their real boobs anymore, and as if your iPhone isn’t almost already part of your body.

If you haven’t had your media overdose on augmented reality yet, or, even better, tried it, you soon will – and with good reason. Augmented reality, AR to its close friends and acquaintances, is here.  On my phone.  In my hand.  Now. Long a staple of sci-fi and speculation, real, effective and useful AR for [...]