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September 18, 2009

Cabulous: Find and Track Cabs Near You

Check this mobile app out, especially if you are in the San Francisco area!
You can currently get on the list for a private beta invite.

Cabulous and Find my Friend Presentation from John Wolpert on Vimeo.


This is a project I was able to work on thanks to an introduction by the USC Stevens Institute. Best Buy Corporate had set up an innovation program and I was lucky enough to get invited to create some location aware concepts for their connected personal navigation device. A few months later, the project was spun off into a separate company and now it's ready for some beta testers.

Sign up here.

September 14, 2009

The USPS gets into the AR scene

From mobile phone developers to marketers, everybody seems to be getting into augmented reality lately. The latest from the United Postal Service(yeah, the guys who deliver your mail) and interactive agency AKQA comes a clever utility to help you determine what sized shipping box to use. Print out the glyph, point your web cam at it and you'll see a virtual shipping box. You can change the transparency of the box and place objects you plan to ship inside the virtual box to see if it will fit. Pretty slick.

(via an augmented reality blog)