Only 1 week to go for ISMAR 2009, the world’s best Augmented Reality (AR) event. Here is one more reason to go to the event. This stunning “Jakomini” demo from Graz University – the masters of handheld Augmented Reality – shows a 3D city model being tracked on a “natural feature” surface (or in plain [...]
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Too much links, too little time: Christine Perey, chair of the ISMAR Mobile Committee, has posted two interesting AR articles on O’Reilly Radar – “See it, Follow it” where she discusses real-world recognition, and Look Through the AR Window where she tries to create a taxonomy for mobile AR application (via @noazark) What’s people’s perception [...]
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Yes, there are so many of new augmented reality browsers each week, they deserve their own post, instead of clogging the weekly linkfest. Here are the browsers that made news this week, in no particular order (well, ok, those they I liked are on top): Air Painter Previously we featured geoPaste, an Android application that [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Air Painter, GPS and Compass, Handhelds and Cellphones, LooKATOR, Tourism and Outdoors, uTourX, Vicrea, WhereMark | 3 Comments »
I couldn’t decide whether I should dedicate a whole post or just a tweet to the next project. On the one hand, I don’t know much about it, and its homepage is in Finnish. On the other hand, the video is in English, and shows a concept that can become a huge buisness – augmented [...]
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They gave you wings, extreme sports races, and Flugtag – and now they want to save print magazines with the bold concept: Print 2.0. Guess which one of these is a true fact? 1) In 2006, more than 3 billion cans of Red Bull were sold in over 130 countries 2) Red Bull publishes a [...]
Filed under: AR Advertising, AR Demos | Tagged: augmented reality, Daniel Wagner, Imagination, Print 2.0, Red Bull | 3 Comments »
So, Mobilizy just released a new update for Wikitude, one that allows you to point your phone at ground zero and see a 3d virtual version of the Twin Towers on the phone’s screen. First we should congratulate Mobilizy for intergrating 3d objects into Wikitude. That’s only two weeks after Layar made a similar move. [...]
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As usual, here’s a bunch of links to augmented reality related news bits that have accumulated in my inbox during the week: There’s no end to the augmented reality browsers phenomenon. Cyclopedia is yet another browser that is based on Wikipedia, Bradesco is helping you find your way around Brazil, and AugmentThis! lets you upload [...]
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(Before you comment, “Et tu” has the same meaning in French as it has in Latin). The Citroën DS3 joins the ranks of cars that get an augmented reality campaign, thanks to Total Immersion. Yes, it’s not as lame as other cars AR campaigns, with its little racing game. However, it won’t be spared from [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: artoolkit, Marketing and Advertisement, total immersion, Visible Markers, web camera | 2 Comments »
