Future of Social Networking and Games

As you may have noticed, I took some days off blogging. Can’t get myself to blog about yet another AR browser (YAARB™) or some run of the mill augmented reality campaign.

However, futuristic concepts still excite me. Check out Matthew Buckland’s latest post. With the help of designer Philip Langley, Buckland has conjured a series of illustrations giving us a peak into social network turbo-charged with augmented reality. Below is one such illustration, showing you what’s going on in the neighborhood.

Can be quite useful when looking for a new home. You can find the other illustrations (and this one in far higher resolution) here.

Another interesting concept that popped today is PlayboxAR, which is a glimpse to what can become the future of augmented reality games:

This is actually a new video of a rather old concept by one Soho Marky.

The disparity between these concepts and reality reminds us that we are still at the very beginning of a long road. Maybe AR is hot right now, but in the future it’s going to be fabulous.

(via @abc3d and The Future Digital Life)

ISMAR 2009: Sneak Preview of Demos at the World’s Best Augmented reality Event

ISMAR 2009, the world’s best augmented reality (AR) event is just 19 days away.

Check out these 8 reasons to attend ISMAR 2009.

If you are into AR – you got to register!

If not – check out some of these upcoming demos – and you’ll become an AR fan instantly.

Here is a sneak preview of some of the demos planned for the event:
Augmented Earth (GA Tech)

6DOF Object Detection (Graz university)

Room design (unknown)

CD and book recognition system (Nokia research Center)

HandyAR

Put a Spell – Learn to Spell with Augmented Reality (presented by Ogmento, developed by Arballoon)

PTAM on iPhone (Georg Klein – Oxford University)

Multiple object recognition – PTAM extension (Robert Castle)

Will Metaio show their Augmented Cards? (Metaio)

Goblin XNA: Infrastructure for Augmented Reality (Columbia University)

Image Space – Social Media Sharing (Nokia)

YVision – AR framework  (YDreams)
(compilation)

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Embedded AR (HitLAB NZ)

Android AR (HitLAB NZ)

Tracking a City Model (Graz University)

Jakomini (Graz University)

Shape Recognition and Pose Estimation (HIT Lab NZ and VML)

In-Place 3D Sketching (HIT Lab NZ and VML)

What will you show at ISMAR?