As long as we define media as “the storage and transmission channels or tools used to store and deliver information or data” (Wikipedia), we might as well consider augmented reality as a medium. And not just any medium, but a mass medium, if our hopes and predictions come true. I find it interesting to look [...]
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Another week has passed by, and it’s time again for our weekly linkfest. I kept this one short by skipping some of the more redundant links I’ve collected along the week. Hope it makes the linkfest more readable: Augmented reality is not prefect after all. ReadWriteWeb’s – “Augmented Reality: 5 Barriers to a Web That’s [...]
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2009 will be remembered as the year augmented reality apps made the news. That was finally possible thanks to a new bread of mobile devices (Google phone, iPhone) that enable the new experience. These new devices pack the gear you need for AR: from cameras to GPS and compasses; they offer both power AND affordability. [...]
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Mobile augmented reality becomes a crowded space really quickly, and I’m about to give up reporting about every application that pops into the lime light. Anyway, Robotvision is another iPhone “augmented reality browser” developed by Portland based Tim Sears. To be released in September (once iPhone OS 3.1 is out), Robotvision boasts some unique features [...]
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While I’m quite a skeptic whether Presslite’s Metro Paris application for the iPhone has “AR capabilities” in the version available on the appstore, there’s no denying Yelp’s application does. Found by Robert Scoble (I’m pretty sure it was leaked to Scoble), and brought to my awareness my ReadWriteWeb, shaking your iPhone while on Yelp’s main [...]
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It’s now confirmed. Augmented Reality has hit the iPhone app store. And we didn’t even have to wait for OS 3.1. Presselite apps have been updated with a new Augmented Reality functionality called Your New Eye. This only works with the latest iPhone 3GS (compass needed). If you don’t believe it – check out the [...]
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From our friends at Mobilizy, this exciting press release: SALZBURG, Austria: AUGUST 26TH 2009. Mobilizy GmbH introduces WIKITUDE 3 for the Android OS and relaunches a completely new Wikitude.me geo-tagging platform. WIKITUDE 3 is the latest release of the Wikitude World Browser, the premiere mobile AR application for Android, which displays location-based, geo-specific content in [...]
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Just a short tweet, to show you I’m still alive (actually, it was a tweet a few hours ago). Unfortunately, I’m not in Paris, but working hard at the moment. However, this next video presents an iPhone app that augments Paris (and looks suspiciously like acrossair applications). It’s called Métro Paris, and the augmented reality [...]
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