Robert Rice Speaks At MOMA

Robert Rice, the CEO of Neogence Enterprises and blogger of augmented reality on Curious Raven, spoke back in June at Mobile Monday.  His speech targets the intermediate developer of augmented reality.  If you’re new to the technology, most of this speech will go over your head.  The video is long, but if you’re serious about augmented reality [...]

Weekly Linkfest

Anyone is coming to WARM 2010? The augmented reality society is coming out of its winter hibernation, and we have quite a few links to AR related stories this week: QderoPateo are developing an AR dedicated device. GigaOM asks why (‘hich is a good reason to plug my “The Kindle Test” post) Augmented Planet was [...]

Magic Vision Lab will Melt, Distort, X-Ray and then Augment your Reality

Chris Sandor, a veteran AR researcher, who worked with some of the most distinguished AR labs and researchers in the world such as Graz University, Columbia University, TU Munich, and Canon Research – is now is the Director of the Magic Vision Lab at the University of South Australia. Chris and team have recently revamped [...]

Apple’s iPad Camera Fail

Unless you’ve been living in a box today, you know that Apple finally unveiled the tablet iPad today. The biggest surprise about the announcement was the lack of a camera on the lap sized PC. No camera, really? If you don’t believe it, check the official spec page. Besides the implications for augmented reality, which I’ll [...]

How to Produce Augmented Reality Applications: Share Your Experience and Help Nurture a Healthy Industry

Marshal Kirkpatrick, the lead blogger for Read Write Web – one of the first tech blogs to dive into the fascinating field of augmented reality  - is working on a research report about the use of AR for marketing. In order to generate data for the report  that best reflects the market reality – he [...]

Spatial Computing Concept Video for Shopping

This summer, Phedhex, posted a concept video showcasing what augmented reality, or spatial computing, could do.  The video was well thought out and I enjoyed it. In the second video, he uses hand gestures to show how we can use augmented reality to purchase furniture in our homes and verify it for decor and size.  The idea [...]

Weekly Linkfest

Another week, another linkfest: It all started with this funny look at augmented reality by the Gaurdian’s Charlie Brooker. Among other things Brooker imagines a world where unpleasant sights (such as poor people – his words, not mine) are transformed by AR goggles. Futurismic developed that basic idea. In “Re-skinning the city – the dark [...]

Social Commons for the Physical World Platform

Tish Shute holds such great interviews for UgoTrade, that it should be considered a crime not to read them if you are an augmented reality fan or professional. Her last interview with Anselm Hook is especially interesting and engaging. However, Tish’s pieces are usually quite long, and may be intimidating. In order to lure you [...]

Real-Time 3D Modeling for Augmented Reality

I’m a big geek when it comes to the behind-the-scenes number crunching stuff that makes augmented reality happen. How it all works is a fascinating look at dynamic systems in concert. The two videos below show how on the fly modeling of objects can help create a fully interactive world with occlusion, shadows and other [...]

Augmented Reality, Newspapers’ Last Best Hope?

We all know the future looks quite bleak for newspapers and journals. Many publications have already fallen victims to the predatory internet with its free, easily accessible and real time reports. Some have speculated that newspapers must either over-specialize or abandon their offline presence in order to survive the coming decade. However, there’s another option [...]

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