Rumors about a new device that could enter the Augmented Reality game were confirmed yesterday by Nikkei Net. Wired revealed it to the rest of us – thank you very much. The new Nintendo DS model will launch this year in Japan. What’s all the rage? One of the most popular mobile game devices ever, [...]
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Thomas Baekdal put together a nice post about PlayStation Eye Camera Games. These are the kind of games Diarmid Campbell demonstrated live on stage while delivering the unforgettable keynote at ISMAR 2008 last week. Purists would rant it’s not augmented reality: If a game takes place on screen, the fact that you interact with it [...]
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Bruno Uzzan from Total Immersion sent me this invitation and I thought you might be interested as well. He is inviting you, augmented reality avid fans, to visit their new offices and have a treat: try some cool augmented reality installations such as transforming yourself to the Joker, or to a hip-hopping break dancer, virtually [...]
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ISMAR ’08 is the epicenter of the world’s best augmented reality demos. Here are the audience favorite picks: The most beautiful demo Markerless Magic Books Created by the only artist at ISMAR ’08… (on the left menu bar click Interaction/Haunted Book) Our demonstration shows two artworks that rely on recent Computer Vision and Augmented Reality [...]
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They say, every good thing has an end…and this event is no exception; ISMAR ’08, the world’s most important augmented reality event, is coming to a close with in a high note and with fireworks (augmented, of course). That’s the part where the event chairs recognize the organizers which have made it possible, and thank [...]
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Bruce Thomas introduces the afternoon session at ISMAR ’08 focusing on user studies in industrial augmented reality. First is Johannes Tuemler which will talk about Mobile Augmented Reality in Industrial Applications: Approaches for Solution of User-Related Issues. The study looks at psychological and ergonomic factors in augmented reality usage and create a requirements catalog for [...]
Filed under: AR Applications, AR Events | Tagged: Anja Roggentin, Anke Huckauf, AR Civil Engineering, AR Order Picking, Bjoern Schwerdtfeger, Dieter Schmalstieg, Eberhard A. Pfister, Erick Mendez, Fabian Doil, Georg Paul, Gerhard Schall, Gudrun Klinker, Irina Boeckelmann, ISMAR 08, Johannes Tuemler, Michael Schenk, Mobile Augmented Reality, Ruediger Mecke | 1 Comment »
The last day of ISMAR ’08 is upon us, and the day opens by stimulating our senses with a session about sensors. Gabriele Bleser starts this session with a talk about Using the marginalised particle filter for real-time visual-inertial sensor fusion She starts by showing a short clip with an erratic camera motion that makes [...]
Filed under: AR Engines, AR Events | Tagged: A. Y. C. Nee, AR Tracking, Daniel Pustka, Didier Stricker, Dynamic Gyroscope Fusion, Fredrik Gustafsson, Gabriele Bleser, Gudrun Klinker, ISMAR 08, Jeroen Hol, S. K. Ong, Sensor tracking, Thomas Schoen, Wee Teck Fong | 1 Comment »
Welcome to the climax of ISMAR ’08. On stage the 9 “gods” of the augmented reality community. And they are siting in a panel to muse about the next 10 years of augmented reality. Dieter Schmalstieg took on the unenviable job of moderating this crowd of big wigs. See if he can curb them down [...]
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After a quick liquid adjustment, and a coffee fix – we are back with the next session of ISMAR ’08, tackling a major topic in augmented reality: Tracking. Youngmin Park is first on stage with Multiple 3D Object Tracking. His first demonstration is mind blowing. He shows an application that tracks multiple 3D objects, which [...]
Filed under: AR Engines, AR Events | Tagged: Alessandro Mulloni, AR MArker Tracking, AR Tracking, Daniel Wagner, Dieter Schmalstieg, Gerhard Reitmayr, ISMAR 08, Pose Tracking, Tobias Langlotz, Tom Drummond, Vincent Lepetit, Woontack Woo, Youngmin Park | 1 Comment »
