Weekly Linkfest – The Justin Bieber Edition

This linkfest has nothing to do with Justin Bieber, and everything to do with augmented reality news bites from the last week. I’m just checking if the mere inclusion of Mr. Bieber in the title will generate more hits. Christopher Mitchell hacked together a Vuzix VR920 HUD and eeePC to create a basic facial recognition [...]

Invisible Sculpture

A little real-time camera trickery and some augmented reality, and wa-la…invisible cube. A camera fixed on the concrete cube sculpture recognizes the presence of human faces within its scope. With a randomized choice it will focus on one of the bystanders and adjust its movement to his; tracking the eye movements of the viewer, a [...]

Becoming Cyborg – One Man’s Quest for a Good HMD

The great thing about technology these days is that anyone can get in on the action.  With a can-do DIY spirit, makers like Staffan Dryselius or Noah Zerkin (where have you been, Noah!), have been breaking new ground with their inventions. Martin Magnusson, like Staffan, is trying to build a better HMD.  While he’s not [...]

Metaio’s Markerless Shopping Experience with Seventeen.com

No over-the-shoulder backside check, but it’s better than staring at a catalog or webpage. “This is the first truly instant online dressing room and as opposed to other augmented reality applications no markers or uploads needed,” said Noora Guldemond, head of sales & marketing for metaio. “We believe this application provides an enhanced interactive online [...]

How Augmented Reality on the iPad Would Look Like

If the iPad had cameras, that is: previously, AR fans disappointed from iPad specs.

Weekly Linkfest

Another bounty of delicious links awaits those who read the weekly linkfest: A very early release of Robert Rice’s Mirascape is online. For the moment it’s Android only, but apparently the iPhone version is waiting approval, and once it hits the appstore I’ll write a full review of it. Augmented Planet offers some marketing tips [...]

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