I thought that the next talk given by MIT’s Pranav Mistry at TED India earlier this month was worth posting over here. True, most of the use cases shown in this video were already presented on February. And true, Graz’s Daniel wagner was absolutely right calling Sixth Sense conceptual. Yet, even as a conceptual work, [...]
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Another week passed by, and here we are again, at the weekly linkfest. Today on the linkfest: Juniper research is predicting that mobile augmented reality will by a $750 million industry by 2014, which is a lot more than the previous $350 million estimate by ABI research. Just a quick reminder – Twitter is valued [...]
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Following video presents a cooperation between Korea’s drugstore Oliveyoung and Samsung (if Google Translate serves me right). Never mind it’s not applied in real time and requires user interaction, but does it increase your sales, making your customers look like clowns? Well I guess it’s a step in the right direction, but probably the technology [...]
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A slow news week, and I’m not the only one who thinks so. Nevertheless, here are some augmented reality related news from around the web: The future digital life has a nice round up of augmented reality used for entertainment. While Augmented Planet has a round up of educational augmented reality applications. A group of [...]
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ARScope originally Presented at SIGGRAPH 2008 by the University of Tokyo (yes, the guys behind ARForce), is obviously not a new concept. However, as far as I can see, it got only little coverage at the time, and certainly deserves our attention. ARScope is an interesting combination of old world metaphors such as a magnifying [...]
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I always enjoy featuring a hobbyist augmented reality project, and Davide Byron’s (aka @Need2Revolt) game “Spads and Fokkers” is especially pleasing. On the face of it, it doesn’t look anything special, two virtual planes having a dog fight, using a marker for easy augmented reality: The twist is in the method the user may exploit [...]
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In a striking coincidence last Friday brought two little tidbits showing Microsoft’s interest with augmented reality. First, TechFlash had a Q&A session with Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer. Here’s Mundie on AR: Q: Another technology that you’ve talked about in the past, and shown, is the idea of augmented reality — overlaying [...]
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Here are some more augmented reality news stories that happened this week: MIT’s Sixth Sense to be open-sourced. Well, I know most don’t see any future in projector enabled augmented reality, yet there’s more to Sixth Sense than a projector (gesture recognition, image recognition), and it’s a lot more feasible than see-through HMD AR at [...]
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Presselite announces new AR iPhone game: Our new project has been revealed today, we are very proud to announce a new Augmented Reality game called Firefighter 360 for the iPhone 3GS. We actually used our Augmented Reality engine developed for Bionic Eye application to create this little game. In this life-saving fire-person shooter, you play [...]
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