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Submission + - "Terminator Vision" is here for the iPhone (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by musefrog on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @08:42AM

musefrog writes: The BBC is reporting that so-called Augmented Reality has arrived — in the UK at least.

From the article:
"Via the video function of a mobile phone's camera it is now possible to combine a regular pictorial view with added data from the internet just as the fictional Terminator was able to overlay its view of the world with vital information about its surroundings. For example, UK-firm Acrossair has launched an application for the iPhone which allows Londoners to find their nearest tube station using their iPhone."

The page features an impressive video demonstrating AR in action.

Submission + - Opera being composed on Twitter (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by musefrog on Monday August 10, 2009 @12:43PM

musefrog writes: The BBC News website is reporting that the Uk's Royal Opera House is to stage an opera created through social networking site Twitter(!).

From the article:
"Members of the public have been invited to submit their "tweets" online — messages of up to 140 characters — which will form the new libretto.The first scene of the as-yet-untitled work has already been completed and features a man who has been kidnapped by a group of birds. Excerpts will be performed at the Royal Opera House in September."

I'm personally looking forward to lots of idiotic 'net memes and inane emo ramblings being trilled out by aging sopranos.

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