You’ve been waiting for this the whole week – here’s the weekly linkfest: Augmented Planet has a round up of all the coming AR events this year. Interesting piece on New Scientist – Augmented reality iPhone helps police track suspects. Chris Grayson published a very good presentation on face tracking and face recognition. Pity there’s [...]
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Well, the following video is obviously not a show of augmented reality by any definition. The virtual entities are well orchestrated, and do not interact in real time with the actor. They are also projected on a screen behind the actor, so he can’t really see them. However, this video is still amazing, and more [...]
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Here is another example of art activism where augmented reality is used to convey a message. Building upon Layar, artists Mark Skwarek and John Craig Freemand created was is probably the first virtual war memorial, commemorating each of the 52,036 deaths, both Iraqis and Allies, in the last gulf war. The artists translated the place [...]
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Safe for Humans is a really smart mobile app concept that harness augmented reality to make people more aware of car accidents involving pedestrians. As you can see in the video below, it will use “natural” markers and probably GPS. However the big challenge here, I suspect, would not be pinpointing the user’s location, but [...]
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Qualcomm Announces Winners of the 2010 Augmented Reality Developer Challenge SAN DIEGO – February 15, 2011 – Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced the winners of its 2010 Augmented Reality (AR) Developer Challenge. The top prize of $125,000 was awarded to a team of two developers from Lithuania, Paulius Liekis and Arminas Didžiokas for Paparazzi. Second [...]
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As eBooks are slowly eroding the pricing structure of physical books, publishing houses are looking for ways to make the book as an object more appealing. The ideas of limited editions or signed copies are going to expand to gimmicks like augmented reality covers, or special content for hardcovers only. The latest book in Jean Auel’s series [...]
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The results for the 2010 Qualcomm AR Developer Challenge are coming next week on February 15th. Qualcomm released this teaser video today: Developers from around the world participated in Qualcomm’s 2010 Augmented Reality (AR) Developer Challenge and created rich AR experiences including interactive games, educational applications, and marketing concepts. These apps use Qualcomm’s AR platform, [...]
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