One of the hurdles in the future of augmented vision is avoiding sensory overload. In Tish Shute’s latest interview, Will Wright notes (and he is far from being the first one to allude to this problem): our senses are set up to know how to filter out 99% of what is coming into them. That [...]
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In December I predicted that Oprah will have an AR item on her show during 2010. My prediction is getting one step closer to becoming (augmented) reality today, as Martha Stewart has some sweepstake that involves FLARToolkit You can try it yourself here, I didn’t bother going through the questionnaire to see exactly what it’s [...]
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…and Lola gets a tons of augmented animations straight from the pages of the book directly to your webcam. This unique picture book for children uses original torn-paper illustrations to tell the fun-filled story of the glamorous Lola the Leopard, who is incredibly vain, and her friend Monty the Meerkat, whose clumsy antics don’t add [...]
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It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another weekly linkfest: Tish Shute has a short interview with Sims creator (though I’ll always remember him for Simcity) Will Wright. Highlights: “our senses are set up to know how to filter out 99% of what is coming into them. That is why they work, and that is what [...]
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Normally, I’ll wait with this kind of news till the weekly linkfest. But, hey, then I’ll miss on this scoop (and I’m really hoping this will get me a Pulitzer!). Zugara, makers of the Fashionista application and ZugSTAR, have just released an iPhone application aimed at providing you with the latest augmented reality news. Named [...]
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The Swiss Kooaba just keeps on innovating. In January Kooaba was behind the first daily newspaper that was fully augmented. Now it is the first (as far as I can tell) that offers a public, free (though limited) to their image recognition capabilities. Using the api, one can send up to 50 daily image queries [...]
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Gesture based computing will open the doors for other creative endeavors. Not sure if this is a concept or the real deal, but who cares, I was entertained by this invisible (augmented reality) synthesizer for ninety seconds. Playing music with guitars will seem primitive when interpretive dance becomes conceptual music.
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Go. A game with such simple rules, that is surprisingly hard to master. It’s the last bastion of humanity against the rising power of game playing artificial intelligence. And now, there’s a cool projected AR board that will help you hone your skills in the game. Presented by a group of researchers from Japan and [...]
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