Total Immersion Points Way toward New Modes of Digital Game Play via Augmented Reality

With AR Technology in i-TAG Toys, Topps Trading Cards and More, Is Toy Industry Nearing a Tipping Point? LOS ANGELES (February 11, 2010) – With the holiday season now behind us and Toy Fair opening this week, are we witnessing a revolution in how kids play? Last fall, in advance of the release of Twentieth Century [...]

Blog Review : Washington Post’s Review of Mattel Avatar Toys with Augmented Reality

James Cameron’s new movie, “Avatar,” attacks theaters this week, and for select members of the family that means play opportunities, both real and virtual, based on the sci-fi epic. [...] Now, there’s an exhaustive line of 3 3/4-inch action figures and in-scale creatures and vehicles based on the Avatar universe that deliver a magical, high-tech [...]

Blog Review : Cisco Virtual Environments : Avatar Pushes Augmented Reality

Please have a look at this article : Cisco Virtual Environments The new James Cameron movie, Avatar, is a next generation film that truly blurs the line between animation and reality.   Add to that mix the elements of new 3D technology, and you see why Cameron waited for the technology to catch up to his vision of the [...]

Total Immersion augmented reality technology is one of most talked-about trends and technologies to have influenced global marketing over the past 12 months

Total Immersion is part of Most Contagious 2009 report in Augmented Reality section. This report talks about all talked-about trends and technologies to have influenced global marketing over the past 12 months. You can have a look to this report here. At the other end of the fun spectrum is Topps’ 3D Live Baseball Cards [...]

Los Angeles Times Looks at the Mattel iTag Line

“Mattel’s Jason Horowitz talks to the L.A. Times about how the Avatar AR-enabled line of iTag action figures weds augmented reality and the fantastic reality of James Cameron’s blockbuster.  In this interview, Horowitz discusses how augmented reality expands upon the remarkable experience of the film.” More

Toys : Video Release of First Mattel Augmented Reality Toys with Avatar Licence and i-Tag technology

The Mattel toy line, developed in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising (Fox Licensing) will feature heroes, creatures and vehicles straight from James Camerons much-anticipated film, which is set for release in December 2009. The augmented reality technology used for the project was developped by AR world leader Total Immersion. Each action figure, [...]

Blog Review (Geek Gestalt) : Augmented reality augurs the future of toys

Please have a look at this article : Augmented reality augurs the future of toys I have seen the future of toys, and it is augmented reality. That was my conclusion Monday after seeing Mattel’s i-Tags, new technology that will be included with action figures the company will make for “Titanic” director James Cameron’s new [...]

Toys: Avatar Line and Mattel: the First AR-enhanced Toys

Mattel has long shown its colors as a tech-forward company — its BarbieGirls.com virtual world has in just two years grown in size to 18 million registered accounts. And just last week the company said it was moving in the direction of augmented reality, a technology with just a single precedent in the toy space [...]

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