Pizzas, Ghosts and Robots, all making augmented reality news this week: Ghostwire, the award winning game for the Symbian OS, is now coming to Nintendo DSi. Toy maker WowWee (the guys behind the Robosapien) planned to introduce a robotic augmented reality game where you drive the robot through an augmented environment. Alas “they thought it [...]
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The USPS has a very neat AR application, which is also surprisingly useful. Using FLARToolKit, you can now see if the stuff you intend to send fits in any of the flat-rate boxes. As the novelty augmented reality fad becomes old very quickly, I hope more companies will favor a more useful approach to AR. [...]
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Joe Ludwig, an MMO game developer and a friend, gave this talk, in front of game developers at LOGIN 2009 in Seattle. A pretty basic, yet realistic intro about augmented reality for newbies. Joe skips the hype and discusses the opportunities of the new platform for game developers. I appreciate the practicality, but hey Joe, [...]
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Future Lions is a yearly competition that allows student to show off innovative concepts in the world of advertisement. Winners are honored at the Cannes Festival but all participants get free exposure to leading agencies. This year’s concept was to “develop an idea for advertising a global brand in a way that would not have [...]
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O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 event is a tightly run ship. One track for all attendees, fast paced 20 minutes sessions, discussing laser focused topics. I got my fair share (3 minutes!) to educate the audience about how AR could impact our life, as part of the Mobile Reality panel, covered by Rouli. A show of hands [...]
Filed under: AR Panel | Tagged: augmented reality, earthmine, Mobile device, O'Reilly, Sense Networks, Velodyne, Virtual reality, where 2.0, Wild Style City | 5 Comments »
A video of the mobile reality panel at last week’s Where 2.0 conference, featuring Raven Zachary (raven.me) Mok Oh (EveryScape Inc.) Will Carter (Nokia Research Center Hollywood) Ori Inbar (Pookatak Games, Inc.) Anthony Fassero (earthmine, inc.). Though Ori is the only one showing any real AR examples, and readers of this blog probably have already [...]
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Well, a very slow week in terms of augmented reality comes to an end. Though the Where 2.0 conference was held this week, there is still no video of the mobile reality panel Ori attended. The slow week also explains why the top post on Game Alfresco was “Top 10 augmented reality demos that will [...]
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Sein has just posted a new video on his blog (in Japanese, though an English version is apparently in the workings). I think it’s really amazing what one man can do on his own: I’ve covered SREngine before, and so did Ori, and from video to video you could really see how this application takes [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: GPS and Compass, Handhelds and Cellphones, indoors AR, Markerless, SREngine, Tourism and Outdoors | 7 Comments »
This week’s top post on Games Alfresco was, for the second week in a row, Top 10 augmented reality demos that will revolutionize video games“. On Augmented Times it was my old rant about using AR to market cars. Here are some other weekly augmented reality news from around the web: Thomas Carpenter had some [...]
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The Wearable Computer Lab at the University of South Australia has recently uploaded three demos showing some of its researchers’ work to Youtube. Thomas covered one of those, AR Weather, but fortunately enough, he left me with the more interesting work (imho). The next clip shows a part of Benjamin Avery’s PhD thesis, exploring the [...]
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