T-shirt adds augmented reality

The world's first wearable magazine, T-post, has launched its 51st t-shirt issue with augmented reality. The t-shirt projects a 3-D interactive game of Rock, Paper, Scissors via the web camera (see video below). The stories are printed on the iside of the T-shirt - an interesting idea but not exactly what you would think of as wearable electronics.



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