Looking for a position at a leading AR company? Metaio’s is looking for an iPhone developer for its San Francisco offices: Your tasks include the analysis, the design and the transfer of customer specified Augmented Reality solutions. Task profile: Application development on iPhone / MacOSX Working on customer projects Requirements analysis / engineering Application design [...]
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I’m sure that such an application would be a killer-app for augmented reality. “Augmented reality? I’m only using it for the articles”. Via @u2elan.
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Cool NEC is developing a head mounted display named Tele Scouter which it hopes to begin shipping somewhere in 2010. The eyepiece shown in the image below has some really neat features like front facing camera and eye tracker. This enables a remote server to see whatever you’re looking at, and send you some relevant [...]
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For their latest campaign, promoting Burger King’s one dollar menu, ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky chose to break the mold of former AR campaigns. First, there’s no mini-site, the whole experience is neatly contained within a single banner ad. Moreover, there’s no need to print a marker. You simply show this ad a one [...]
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Researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology and the University of Electro-Communications may have created the cutest AR creature to date. In the last SIGGRAPH conference they have presented the following poster, discussing a haptic ring that let you pet virtual creatures (VC) and enable virtual creatures touch you. We installed models of optical / touch [...]
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Following are some AR tricks and treats I’ve collected over the last month, which make me think this Halloween should be declared as the first augmented holiday. Judge for yourself. First we have the interactive Halloween mirror from Instructables. This little do-it-yourself project will let you and your party guests try out gory and scary [...]
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Back from my short hiatus. As I wasn’t able to attend ISMAR, I had to follow the conference via the impressions of others: If you hadn’t read it yet, you sould – Ori’s ISMAR summary: “Top 10 tidbits reshaping the augmented reality industry“. I’ve found his sixth bullet point, the shortest of them all, the [...]
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Short note – Layar is looking for Android developers. As always, you can find this and many other open positions at Games Alfresco’s Jobs section, and you are welcome to tell us about open positions in your company, we’ll post them for free.
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ISMAR 2009 is over. It was the best of times. Augmented to the Nth degree. How does the world of Augmented Reality looks like in the morning after? Eager, revolutionary, strong, creative, responsible, loving – with a speck of a hang over. Does it feel any different than before? Well, a few tectonic plates have [...]
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