Weekly Augmented Reality Linkfest

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 [...]

The Augmented Reality Sword Fight

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 [...]

Augmented Reality U.S./Iraq War Memorial

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 [...]

Weekly Augmented Reality Linkfest

As always, here the augmented reality news stories and tidbits, I didn’t have the time (or will) to cover this week: ISMAR11 call for papers is online, abstracts due May 11th The Guardian asks what is mobile AR for, and whether we should look for an augmented reality killer application. Georgia Tech’s Argon, “the first [...]

Augmented Reality in the Fight Against Car Accidents

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 [...]

Qualcomm Announces Winners of the 2010 Augmented Reality Developer Challenge

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 [...]

Valentine’s Weekly Linkfest

You can’t find a date using augmented reality yet (?), but you can sure do other things with it: You can control lights around your home with this very nice use of Qualcomm’s AR SDK. See ultrasound imaging of your body, overlaid on your skin. Install a new ink cartridge in your printer, without printing [...]

Augmented Reality to Combat eBooks

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 [...]

2010 Qualcomm Augmented Reality Developer Challenge

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, [...]

Super Weekly Linkbowl

links, who wants some links? Metaio & USA Today launched an AR Super Bowl application that puts you in the middle of the Cowboy’s stadium. Virtual fishing with an augmented reel (via @yoav85) If fishing is too peaceful for you, the AR gun makes augmented reality shooting games more realistic than ever. Russian AR Door [...]

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