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Accel World Augmented Reality Shirts

Written by Benjamin Chu

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Augmented Reality apps on mobile devices seem to be gaining in popularity. Just recently COSPA announced that they are releasing a pair of T-shirts that take advantage of virtual augmentation on smart phones. Obviously themed to match the recent virtual reality anime Accel World, one shirt gives you silver wings from Arita Haruyuki's (Silver Crow) Burst Avatar and the other shirt (made for girls) gives you Kuroyukihime's (Black Lotus) avatar butterfly wings. The Silver Crow shirts come in sizes M, L, and XL while the Black Lotus shirts come in sizes S, M, and L.

Each shirt has unique art printed on the backside of the T-shirt. The smart phone app picks up that unique art through the camera, and augments the wings on your back. The smart phone app should be available for iOS and Android.

The demo video by COSPA can be seen here:

The shirts are already up for pre-order for 3,360 yen @ nijigencospa:

Haruyuki Arita - Silver Crow

Kuroyukihime - Black Lotus

Silver Crow AR

Kuroyukihime AR

This is not the first use of augmented reality apps on smart phones. Fans of Minecraft might know, but Minecraft Reality by 13th Lab, is another great smart phone app that takes advantage of this new augmented reality technology. The Minecraft Reality app is powered by the PointCloud SDK which allows the mapping and tracking of 3D spaces using a technique called SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). It makes me wonder if the COSPA app is also using the PointCloud SDK.

Last modified on Monday, 11 February 2013 19:48