Weekly Linkfest

Got a little bit addicted to Google AI Challenge, so I haven’t updated as I should have during the last week. Luckily, still have time for a quick linkfest: New Scientist has an interesting piece on indoors navigation systems and the battle of methods in this world. ISMAR is coming soon and the organizing committee [...]

The First Fun Augmented Reality Game on the iPhone App Store Was Just Submitted

Since September 2009, we have seen many quasi-augmented reality (AR) games on the iphone, some fun concept AR games (on other platforms and devices with no real commercial distribution). Today I had the pleasure to play the first truly fun, truly AR game on the iphone – and I loved it. It’s called AR Defender, [...]

Augmented Reality Will Be The New PowerPoint

Total Immersion created a five-minute augmented reality presentation for Bill Chang, EVP of the Business Group of SingTel, to visually illustrate the complex process of business cloud computing in a simple-to-understand manner.   In doing so, they’ve shown us the future of presentations, at least for CEOs and other business rock star positions that can [...]

Weekly Linkfest

Layar, Pongr, Lumus, The Artvertiser – and the one linkfest to rule them all: After a short summer hiatus, Tish Shute is back with part 2 of her interview with Bruce Sterling: Urban augmented realities and social augmentations that matter. The Artvertiser, one of my favorite augmented reality projects, gets the main stage at TEDxAmsterdam. [...]

Three Fun Things To Do With Augmented Reality

I can see you’re a little bored (yes, I’ve hacked your webcam) and I’ve scoured the Intertoobs to find some augmented reality to cheer you up.  From free to over one hundred dollars, here are a few ways to inject a little spice into your boring life. Free – AR on Webcams Does it work [...]

Is There Such a Thing as Pregnancy Induced Stupidity?

warning – this is another one of my nasty posts. Reader discretion is advised. Is there such a thing as pregnancy induced stupidity? If you examine Simubaby‘s premise you might reach such a conclusion. How else would you justify its business model? Simubaby, the brain child of the Spanish Atlantis Virtual Reality is a commercial [...]

Tasbeeraman – An Augmented Reality Hand Movement Detection Game

No licensing issues here, really… I applaud the robust hand tracking, but could the game be something new rather than a Pac Man rip-off?  Come on Total Immersion.  You guys are better than this. Learn more on the Total Immersion blog.

Weekly Linkfest

Kind of slow week, but we still have some tasty links for you: Congrats to Layar’s Raimo Van Der Klein for being listed as one of TIME’s Tech Pioneers! (via Augmented Planet has an interview about the Legal Aspects of Augmented Reality Development, but frankly I haven’t found it very AR specific. ReadWriteWeb asks whether [...]

More Augmented Reality X-Ray Systems

Augmented reality will make superheros of us all.  A preview of what you can expect for ISMAR2010 from Magic Vision Lab. Sandor, C., Cunningham, A., Dey, A., and Mattila, V. An Augmented Reality X-Ray System based on Visual Saliency To appear in: Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Seoul, Korea, October, [...]

Upcoming Qualcomm Developer Challenge

This fall, Qualcomm is going to host a $200,000 Augmented Reality Developer Challenge.  The details for the challenge haven’t been released yet, but the total amount of prize money should have would-be developers planning their products as we speak.  The challenge will start when they release the Qualcomm AR SDK.  More details can be found [...]

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