[From AP via The Huffington Post; a related 1:07 minute video is available on YouTube] In ‘Kinect Sesame Street TV’ On Xbox, The TV Talks Back To Kids AP  |  By Barbara Ortutay Posted: 09/18/2012 NEW YORK (AP) — Elmo, Big Bird and the rest of the “Sesame Street” crew have always talked to kids. Now, they’ll try to have a two-way conversation with their pint-sized audience using Kinect, the motion and voice-sensing controller created by Microsoft. “Kinect Sesame Street TV,” out Tuesday, is not exactly a video game, though it runs on the Xbox 360 video game system.…

[From redOrbit, where the story includes a video] Researchers Aim To Boost Accuracy of Augmented Reality Technology September 17, 2012 Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The same technology used to produce that first down line on television at an NFL football game is also being used to help future surgeons perform operations. Augmented reality, or “AR,” is the computer-generated virtual objects that sports fans have grown to both love and hate over the years. While there have been AR successes like the yellow line in football, there have also been failures like that seen in the NHL…

[From CBC, where the story includes a 1:43 video report; for more information about uGenius is available in an article in Fortune] [Image: FirstOntario Credit Union in Ancaster is a bank with no tellers. (Kate Adach)] Video banking makes robbery impossible By Kate Adach, CBC News Posted: Aug 27, 2012 How do you rob a bank that has no tellers? “Oh, we have tellers,” says Mary De Sousa, marketing leader of an innovative banking system that provides virtual bankers through a computer screen. She points to a machine. “That’s our teller.” The machine looks like any ATM, but once activated,…

[From Defense News] [Image: The Augmented Immersive Team Training system superimposes objects, such as vehicles or munitions, on the real-life terrain that is viewed through a head-mounted display. (Office of Naval Research)] Marines Get Virtual Explosions in the Real World Sep. 13, 2012 By Michael Peck The U.S. Marine Corps has unveiled a prototype training system that uses augmented reality to digitally superimpose objects upon a real landscape. This differs from the virtual reality used by programs such as the Army’s freshly fielded Dismounted Soldier Training System, which transports the user into a fake world. The Marines recently demonstrated the…

[From The University of Western Ontario’s Western News, where the story includes an additional image] Collaboration leads to ‘something special’ Article and photos by Paul Mayne September 13, 2012 Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences professor Mandor Jog, director of the National Parkinson Foundation Centre of Excellence at London Health Sciences Centre, runs through the augmented immersion virtual reality project which helps researchers understand how patients with neurodegenerative conditions, such as Parkinson’s, navigate their environments. In a non-descript room of an eerily quiet wing of South Street Hospital, Mandor Jog’s work may look like a game to some. But the outcome…

[From Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance] Lake Forest Graduate School of Management Introduces the Next Generation of Online Learning Avatars as Business-School Collaborators Press Release: Lake Forest Graduate School of Management – Mon, Sep 10, 2012 LAKE FOREST, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Move over, gamers — avatars aren’t just for entertainment anymore. While most graduate business schools prepare their MBA students for the world of business that awaits them after graduation, Lake Forest Graduate School of Management (LFGSM) is changing the game by immersing a new cohort of students into that world of business through an innovative approach to learning. In LFGSM’s…