Governator vs. Chancellator Play Augmented Reality at Cebit

You got to see this to believe it: California-Governor-Arnold -Schwarzenegger and German-Chancellor-Angela-Merkel jointly holding a Lego-digital box-by-Metaio. In the back, a mirror screen featuring an augmented version of California-Governor-Arnold-Schwarzenegger and German-Chancellor-Angela-Merkel holding the Lego-digital-box-by-Metaio, with an exploded view of the assembled Lego toy. This must have been the highest concentration of top-rank political figures in [...]

Augmented Reality Game in Primetime TV Show

To complete the trilogy covering the Japanese foray into Augmented Reality, here’s a revival of a TV show featuring ARis the Augmented Reality Geisha. The game creator is a super star; the new scenarios are staggering; give it up to the unwavering, hanky-panky, poke-her doll – ARis the augmented! The first adult AR game is [...]

“I Think the Graphics of a Punch”

Predicted Mr. Yamazaki during this week’s Augmented Reality panel at the IT Business Pro conference in Tokyo. The panelists were (from left): Tsunoda Tetsuya  from AR Lab Asuka – about content production, NEC’s Yamasaki Zyuniti MAGUNASUKOMYUNIKESHONZU about application development for mobile phones, AR DNP (DNP) Goro Nomotai, Mr. Hamano Satoshi of Japan about application development, [...]

Japanese Augmented Reality Punch Continues

via augmented times, via Sein Blog, thanks to google translator…here are the AR news from Japan. Scene Recognition Engine (SR Engine) demonstrates its ability to recognize buildings, pull relevant information, and display it live – on an iPhone. And it works outdoors – alfresco. Looks like a marriage between Tonchidot’s Sekai Camera and Mobilizy’s Wikitude. [...]

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