Live from ISMAR ’08: Near-Eye Displays – a Look into the Christmas Ball

The third day of ISMAR ’08, the world’s best augmented reality event, is unfolding with what we expect to be an eye popping keynote (pun intended) by Rolf R. Hainich, author of The End of Hardware. He is introduced as an independent research and started to work on AR in the early ’90s – so [...]

What do Games of 2043 Look Like?

We interrupt this program (“ISMAR ’08) to bring you this breaking news from the Austin Game Developer Conference (via Gamasutra): Futurist and author Bruce Sterling delivered the Tuesday keynote speech where he was tasked to imagine the next 35 years in the game industry: Then what do the games of 2043 look like? “I think [...]

Live from ISMAR ’08: Latest and Greatest in Augmented Reality Applications

It’s getting late in the second day of ISMAR ’08 and things are heating up…the current session is about my favorite topic: Augmented Reality applications. Unfortunately, I missed the first talk (had a brilliant interview with Mark Bullinghurst) by Raphael Grasset about the Design of a Mixed-Reality Book: Is It Still a Real Book? I [...]

Live from ISMAR ’08: The dARk side of Physical Gaming

Welcome to the late evening keynote of the second day of ISMAR ’08 in Cambridge. The keynote speaker is Diarmid Campbell, from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (London), and heads its research on camera gaming. And we are covering it in real time. Diarmid comes on stage. the crowed is going crazy… The talk: Out of [...]

Exclusive! HitLab NZ Releases an Augmented Reality Authoring Tool for Non Programmers

I am excited. I have in my hands a flier I just received from Mark Billinghurst (one of the AR gods at ISMAR ’08) This flier includes the URL for a totally new augmented reality authoring tool developed by HITLab New Zealand. What’s really new about this too is that it targets non programmers (as [...]

Live from ISMAR ’08: Augmented Reality Layouts

Caffeine levels are set after the well deserved coffee break, and we are back to discuss AR layouts. Onstage Steven Feiner introducing the speakers of this session. First presenter is Nate Hagbi which is touching on an unusual topic that often  is seen as a given: In-Place Augmented Reality: A new way for storing and [...]

Live from ISMAR ’08: Augmented Reality – What Users Are Saying

Everyone is back from lunch and the afternoon session is on: User studies in augmented reality. First on stage is Benjamin Avery to talk (with an animated Australian accent) about User Evaluation of See-Through Vision for Mobile Outdoor Augmented Reality. This The study took users outdoors in various scenarios to test the performance of AR [...]

Live from ISMAR ’08: Latest and Greatest on Augmented Reality Displays

Welcome back to ISMAR ’08; This is the second day and we are getting to the meaty topics. Ozan Cakmakci is on stage and kicks off with walking through his paper: Optical free form surfaces in Off-Axis Head-Worn Display Design. Ozan zooms through a quick history of optics and switches to a set of graphs [...]

ISMAR ’08 Live: Workshop on Industrial Augmented Reality: Needs and Solutions

Welcome to the first workshop of ISMAR 2008. We are starting with the Industrial AR workshop. Selim Benhimane introduces ISMAR Chair Ralf Rabaetje which introduces the first speaker Dr. Werner Schreiber from Volkswagen AG. Ralf describes the main reason for VW to research in augmented reality: “we need to find new and better ways to [...]

Live from ISMAR ’08 in Cambridge: Enjoy the Weather…

“Enjoy the weather” uttered sarcastically a kindhearted British witch (aka air hostess) while we were leaving the aircraft; surprisingly – we did in the first day. We were then promised this is accidental and surely the last day of summer. Splendid. I have landed in Cambridge, UK (where people go to augment their reality) and [...]

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