This week on the linkfest, it’s trains, snails and mobile phones: Mobilizy released a new Wikitude version. I will use this opportunity to update my earlier post on IBM Wimbledon Seer application. Apparently, it was a joint work with Mobilizy and Ogilvy. ReadWriteWeb: “Augmented Reality: Here’s Our Wishlist of Apps, What’s On Yours?“, scans through [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: linkfest, Mobilizy, total immersion, Wikitude | Leave a Comment »
Our inaugural post from early 2008: “Top 10 AR demos that will…” sparked huge interest. Since then, we have witnessed loads of AR games swarming the market. Well, that may be an exaggeration – but the industry has certainly transitioned from delivering mere demos to actual games; from proof of concepts to commercial products; from [...]
Filed under: AR Games | Tagged: A Different Game, ARhrrrr!, ARis, Candy Wars, Do the Dip, DSi, Eye of Judgment, EyeToy, Fanta, Frantz Lasorne, GA Tech, Geisha Entertainment, Ghostwire, Gizmondo Art of Defense, graz university, int13, Invisimals, iphone, Julian Oliver, Kweekies, Level Head, MacDonald's, nokia, Nvidia Tegra, Oasis, PSP, Rubberduckzilla, SCAD-Atlanta, Scope, Sony, the invisible train, Topps, total immersion, Virtual tennis | 35 Comments »
Los Angeles based, but Japanese named interactive marketing agency Zugara has launched a couple of days ago a new application named “The Webcam Social Shopper“. Basically, it’s a magic mirror application that let’s you try on different clothes. But, there’s so much more to it – the user interface is engaged via motion detection, and [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Magic Mirror, Marketing and Advertisement, Visible Markers, web camera | Leave a Comment »
It was bound to happen. As augmented reality becomes more and more prevalent, it was all a matter of time till someone took credit for something he is probably not entitled for. Enter Chris Hughes best known for jailbreaking the first iPhone. Last February, at TED palmsprings, Hughes briefly showcased his work that “makes creating [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: artoolkit, Visible Markers, web camera | 2 Comments »
Yep, it’s the silliest post title I’ve ever come up with. Nevertheless, this next video is really cool. It features both a robotic pool player and an augmented reality guidance system for human pool players (starting at 2:00). It was developed by a team of researchers from Canada’s Queen’s university. Sadly, I couldn’t find much [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Markerless, Queen's University, Research | Leave a Comment »
This week seemed to be all about Layar. The blogosphere and major tech sites were all reporting about the “first augmented reality browser” (and we had our fare share in the coverage as well). However, there were some other AR releated news this week, even though the first item on this week’s linkfest is still [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Layar, linkfest, nokia, Occipital, Point and Find, SPRXMobile | 1 Comment »
Microsoft’s Project Natal made the news at E3, and ever since it’s only growing in mind share thanks to “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” and, now, Stephen Colbert. The highlight last night was the introduction of the “next next generation” of Xbox technology, the X-Xbox, a device that requires no controller, no screen and no [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
While SPRXMobile enables you to experience an augmented version of the Netherlands (and the whole world in the the future), IBM has more modest goals in mind. Available from next Monday on the Android store, IBM’s Seer Android Beta will add some AR magic to the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Using it, visitors can find facilities [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: GPS and Compass, Handhelds and Cellphones, IBM, Tourism and Outdoors | 1 Comment »
Remember the days when new films were promoted using alternative reality games? Well, it’s got old fast, and this summer there’s a new technology in town. In the last month or so we already covered the following movie promotions: Tour the Enterprise’s deck and fire its phasers See a trailer for Night at the Museum [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Marketing and Advertisement, total immersion, visible, web camera | 4 Comments »
Surely, you have already read about it at Gizmodo, at ReadWriteWeb, or at any other of the millions of websites which reported the news today. However, if you are avid readers of this blog, you already knew about Layar, “the first augmented reality browser” for at least two weeks (see link for further details). So [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: GPS and Compass, Handhelds and Cellphones, Layar, SPRXMobile, Tourism and Outdoors | 6 Comments »
