Last week on The Future Digital Life, I posted about the Dangers of Computer Vision. The post garnered a fair amount of interest but it is a question that’s a tad ahead of its time. We don’t have cameras greedily sucking up information by the bucketfuls right now. But we do have GPS for our [...]
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Industry icons Bruce Sterling, Vernor Vinge, Will Wright and Jaron Lanier to judge “The Auggies” – at the worldʼs largest AR event. Register Today! SANTA CLARA, CA (April 26, 2011) – The Augmented Reality industry is getting ready to show off a new round of innovation to the technology, media, and marketing communities. If you ever wondered about [...]
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This week in the linkfest – computer vision, Easter bunnies and furniture: “Augmented Reality for Smartphones” is a 50 pages-long report that analyzes many popular AR platforms in order to give developers better perspective on what’s available in the market today. Computer vision (1): Thomas K. Carpenter warns us against its dangers. Computer vision (2): [...]
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Google is finally allowing us to edit and add to the map of the United States. Google Map Maker accepts user contributions and map edits which will, after being checked by a small verification group, be added to the map. This information can now be seen in Google Street View along with searchable content. I added a [...]
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My favorite part of the billboard is that it’s made for when you’re stuck in traffic. I’m thinking the billboard is going to be mostly sad. Partnering with Tronic the billboard sits near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel and reads, ‘Today I’m Feeling _____’. Using a the GoldRun GPS augmented reality app, passerbys or [...]
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Traveller AR is an upcoming iPhone AR RPG (whew, that’s a mouthful) that has released a beta and a brief video. The game is based on an old RPG, basically D&D in the stars. Traveller-AR uses iPhone’s Augmented Reality to: See a virtual 3D world over-layed on the real world through the window of your [...]
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With Easter just around the corner, we are undoubtedly facing a round of festive augmented reality applications. While last year saw the creation of GPS based applications such as “AR Easter Egg Hunt“, this year brings computer-vision based applications, and leading the pack is Irregular Apps’ “Talking Augmented Easter Egg“. Using what seems to be [...]
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* A year ago we were scanning the heavens waiting for VC manna. Now it seems we have a blizzard. NEW YORK NY April 11- GoldRun, a leading mobile augmented reality platform, has raised $1.1 million in angel funding. Participants in the round include Ed Mathias (The Carlyle Group), financier Jon Ledecky, Jeremy Zimmer (Founding Partner of United [...]
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If you are a user of one the mobile AR applications, such as Layar, Junaio, Wikitude, Google Goggles (or any of the many others), and would like to help the (academic) research of augmented reality, boy do Markus Salo and Thomas Olsson have an offer for you. The two researchers from Finland ask you to [...]
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