Earlier this week I reported about an interesting paper accepted to this year’s SIGGRAPH conference, studying how augmented reality makes cookies taste better. However, it’s far from being the only appearance of AR in SIGGRAPH. Following are three more AR demos that took the stage during the conference: Camera-less Smart Laser Projector Using a laser [...]
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Ahh… augmented reality see-through HMD, how you tease me so… Maybe I’m a cynical twice-burned jilted lover but I feel I’ve been here before. Thankfully, I fall in love again so easily. Laster Technologies “Pro Mobile Display” has me intrigued enough for a lunch date at least and the company lists the PMD as a [...]
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SIGGRAPH, the world’s most important conference on computer graphics and a pixel-fetishist wonderland is being held this week in Los Angeles, featuring several interesting papers on augmented reality. One of them explores the augmentation of cookies. Yes, we have all seen cookies marked with augmented reality markers. Games Alfresco has mentioned such cookies back in [...]
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There’s something syrupy good about J-Pop. Add some high-tech augmented reality that places Hatsune Miku on your very own table and you’ve got a potential hit. She’s already a vocaloid digital creation so why not make her AR as well? Which makes me wonder if when AR finally has more mainstream bona fides, Japan will [...]
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CEO Dave Elchoness speaks about his product, Tagwhat. The AR browser aims to combine multiple location-based information streams like Foursquare, hyper local Wikipedia entries, social interaction, advertising, virtual goods and more; and all to an uplifting background music.
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A few months ago Staffan Dryselius made a splash on Team Hack-a-Day with his DIY data glasses. Since then he’s been working with a team to improve his design and would like to form a larger partnership with anyone interested in working on or owning a pair of AR glasses. Having a working HMD for [...]
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Aside from the antenna problems, its nice to see incremental improvements on magic lens augmented reality.
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Augmented Reality is the best way to experience history. My dream is to have a “time machine slider” that allows me, in any given location, to see how things looked at a certain point in history. My field of view would be overlaid (with perfect registration;) using old maps, drawings, old photos, recreations in the [...]
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