Good to see AR being bandied about as a marketing term without much explanation. Sadly, I still have to explain AR to most people I talk to outside the tech arena, so for now it’s just one of those flashy words that make our brain want to buy it and not an actual logical factor in [...]
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The Kinect has become an indie revolution, open sourced and hacked to provide a wealth of effects we haven’t had access to for augmented reality. The Kinect Hacks site is doing a terrific job covering the revolution, but I want to make my bid for what I want the Kinect to do outside its comfort [...]
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There are a few topics that I’ve been planning to write about for months (if not years). One of them is the role sports enthusiasts (joggers, swimmers, bicycles fanatics) may have in the adoption of augmented reality head up displays. The recent onslaught of hi-tech ski goggles was the push I needed to finally do [...]
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** These AR scavenger hunt games are fantastic. I just wish they would make them where us common folk could play. GoldRun, an augmented reality mobile application, is working with Sorel, a premium footwear brand, to turn Park City into a rewarding social media experience during the Sundance Film Festival. Consumers can embark on a [...]
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It’s Sunday, and here are some links from around the augmented sphere: Videos of ISMAR 2010′s keynotes were recently uploaded to Youtube: Ron Azuma: Beyond pop-ups and moving trains Hirokazu Kato: Return to the origin of Augmented Reality Boris Debackere: Better Then Reality Selim Benhimane: Imagine a generalized daily basis usage of AR/MR It’s way [...]
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This article is a contribution from Arvind Ramachandran, a second year MBA student at the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta. *********************************************** The World Wide Web has become passé. Now I know that’s a big statement to make, but just hear me out. Nowadays, marketers around the world are tuned into the World Wide Web on an unprecedented [...]
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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the links of this week: Synchronize your markers – the second Augmented Reality Event to take place in May. Maybe this time my flight won’t be canceled by Delta at the very last minute. Google Goggles enters the print ads recognition space (and now also solves Sudokus). There [...]
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1980, the Japanese Namco corporation develops Pac-Man, making arcade history 2004, researchers from National University of Singapore’s Mixed Reality Lab, led by Adrian Cheok, create Human Pacman, a first person version of the classic game, that lets you play the classic game with an augmented reality twist. This twist also means that you have to [...]
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I’m not familiar with the superhero Ultra-Seven, but wearing a boomerang on the back of your head seems like a bad idea. The Kinect porn superheros can’t be far behind. Go here for the code.
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