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U.S. Postal Services Launches Virtual Box Simulator

September 10th, 2009 by Sergio Paluch

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The United States Postal Service recently launched an augmented reality application that simulates a virtual box for your shipment. The application projects a “hologram” of a shipping box over an item that the user holds up to the computer’s webcam. It remains to be seen how useful and accurate the application is, but it definitely wows for its “cool” factor. The video below shows how it works.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 7:50 am and is filed under All User Experience Design.

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