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Alright, another fun application and a virtual wardrobe! Ray-Ban built a neat application you can download from their website: “virtual mirror”. This youtube video shows the idea ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQVSHGam5A ). To help the tracking you have to pinpoint some 8 features of your face and then the latest models of Ray-Ban shades jump to your eyes. Tracking is not too stable, but once again we see: AR is hitting the market, because every company wants to show off with it, even though it might not be really helpful. But then again, you can switch back to the virtual model only without your pixelated face in the background. Enjoy!

Well, this his highly necessary, since the prototype of maximum-hype-company tonchidot is not really there yet. So far everybody has seen the Super Mario soundtracked video on youtube, where they use an iPhone to tag the real world in an AR style. But tracking is poor and the prototype with the nice idea does not give any clues how far they’ve really gotten with their product yet. Everything is highly questionable as seen during the discussion at . techcrunch50 conference Be sure to get the tonchidot vibe with the techcrunch video! I share their enthusiam, but this is still too early to start such a hype for a product, that is obviously a fake or at max. alpha status. I’m a bit undecided: should I hate these guys for their crazy presentation and their getting-our-hopes-up or should I love them for getting-our-hopes-up and pushing AR into the market? But I guess the latter just still won’t work due to missing hardware (tracking, infrastructure for mobile computing and reliable data transfer).