Continuing my endeavor from last week, here are some more recommended accounts to follow on Twitter if you are interested in augmented reality. As promised, today I’m going to focus on mobile augmented reality companies. But first, let me just add two more guys that I absentmindedly missed last time. @chrisgrayson – Chris is the [...]
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Earlier today, Thomas Carpenter posted this video and asked whether the augmented reality mode adds anything to the application. The answer is probably not. In my opinion we are seeing AR evolving into a cool feature for location based services, much like rounded corners was the cool thing to have if you were a web [...]
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Horray. Apple announced today in their Music Event, that the new iPhone operating system3.1 is here (should be available in the next couple of hours). What’s so great about it? We were the first to publish the upcoming news when the Beta SDK 3.1 came out in mid July in our post: Has Augmented Reality [...]
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The posts I like the most are about student projects. Luckily here’s another one. A couple of students from the German research institute, the Fraunhofer Society created what they name “The Augmented Reality Flashlight”. Basically, it’s a micro-projector held as a flashlight to shed light (i.e. annotate) objects in your vicinity. Yep, projected AR is [...]
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Frankly, I got tired with AR browsers. When Wikitude first launched I was excited. When Layar came out the whole blogosphere was thrilled. But now (only a couple of months after Layar went public), I’m feeling quite jaded. Everybody and his sister are making an AR browser application, and most of them are just he [...]
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ISMAR 2009 proudly announces the first Flash AR Contest sponsored by ARToolWorks. The contest is opened to anyone and is part of the inaugural Arts, Interactive Media and Humanities program for ISMAR 2009. The best FLARToolKit submission wins $1000 USD. (we know you’re in it just for the money) Contest rules: 1. Develop a desktop-based [...]
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Oh, there’s just too much to write about this week. In the mobile AR front: Nokia’s researcher Kari Pulli gave a talk last week at the SDForum about Nokia’s take on mobile augmented reality (slides). In a nutshell, it should be based on image recognition and accessed using HMD. And here are some more details [...]
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Once again, it was another very prolific week for augmented reality, with a plethora of interesting posts and articles. For those of you who didn’t had a time to read them during the week and waited for the weekend to catch-up (like I did), here’s a short list of articles that may entertain you for [...]
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Augmented reality and Twitter. Both are currently hyped as game changers, regardless of their current impact on the world. We have covered in the past some AR applications that brought tweets to the real world (e.g. Twittaround, Cloud Mirror and Squidder’s augmented T-shirts). This time around, it’s time to cover the augmented reality scene in [...]
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Really, Why do people get excited about augmented reality ? I was stumped by this question in an interview for the NY Times and my first reaction was: duh! ’cause it’s friggin’ awesome! But when you think about it, people get excited about Augmented Reality because…because they never thought it’d actually become possible… Science Fiction [...]
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