Press release by Layar: Amsterdam, April 28th 2010. Today Layar introduces a new revenue stream in Augmented Reality. Publishers on the Layar platform now have the possibility to offer priced Augmented Reality experiences on multiple mobile platforms such as iPhone and Android. The content store is seamlessly integrated into the Layar Reality Browser, which is [...]
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Be sure to check out Frog Design’s vision of living in 2020, for a dose of augmented reality spectacles via La Realtà Aumentata nelle applicazioni di marketing
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Rear Window is the thesis project of artists Mike Lawrie and Jon Friis for the New Media program of the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University (Canada). It’s a re-imagining of the classic Hitchcock film where viewers will take the part of the film’s protagonist. The installation takes the form of a telescope, installed [...]
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When someone falls down and begins grabbing at their chest. How many people would stop and try to help them? Psychology experiments show that most will walk by, hoping the next person will stop and help the struggling person. Witness apathy in the face of need is wired into our brains and difficult to overcome. [...]
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This week saw the realization of two conferences dedicated to augmented reality – the AR Conference and the European AR Business Conference. Sadly, no videos from the two are currently available online. But here several other things that are available online: Augmented Planet on why mobile augmented reality is much like Marmite. Tish Shute gave [...]
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Swiss augmented reality company kooaba and ETH Zurich have joined forces to create a rather impressive augmented reality browser prototype, which I’ll refer to as the Koo (since it lacks any official name). Unlike existing browsers out there, the Koo doesn’t rely on GPS and compass readings to decide what’s in front of it, but [...]
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Back in early fall of 2009, with help from Bruce Sterling, I put together a list of augmented reality novels. I’ve added a few since the original, but further additions have been sparse (at least until I can find a publisher for my own.) So this concept video based on the novel Feed by MT [...]
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Sorry for the attention grabbing title, but remember how we all celebrated when augmented reality passed virtual reality on Google trends, showing an exponential growth rate? (source) Well, it sure looked promising back last September, but since then, the interest in AR has stopped increasing, at least when measured is search volumes and news references [...]
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Who knew augmented reality markers were the new glowstick? Psychedelic jellyfish, oh my!
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If you happen to be in Amsterdam this Saturday (either because you live there or can’t get back home because your flight is canceled), you may want to check out the first AR flash mob. It turns out that in an augmented flash mob, the mob consists of virtual characters bounded to markers: Sander Veenhof [...]
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