It was only five months ago when we reported about the first set of mobile augmented reality games coming out of Qualcomm Augmented Reality Game Studio. The studio, a partnership between Qualcomm and Georgia Tech’s Augmented Environments Lab, gives students the tools to create AR games and gives us a peek their crazy ideas. Now, [...]
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Before we begin with our weekly pile of links, here’s a message from Christine Perey on behalf of “the program committee of the Third International AR Standards meeting”: The committee has decided to extend the deadline for position papers to June 6th (5 PM UK). Please find more information and guidelines for the position papers: [...]
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** Nice to see the Kinect out in the working world, rather than just slaving away in hacker space. The video is instructive as it shows real customers using the product. Personally, I wouldn’t look good in any of those dresses, but that’s just me. *cough* Virtual Fitting Room for Topshop AR Door, a Russian [...]
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Took a break last week (missed me? you should follow me on Twitter), back today with many AR links: Happy Mother’s Day! It can be even happier if you get your Mom an AR cake (via DMFO) Tish Shute and Ori Inbar hold an interview with Bruce Sterling – it doesn’t make sense to write [...]
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The second annual Augmented Reality Event (ARE 2011) is just 1 week away – and the final schedule published today has got it all: Entertainment & drama, learning & playing, psychology & emotion, brain & heart, capitalism & art – and many other superlatives about augmenting the world. Confirmed number of speakers at the event is a staggering [...]
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The inevitable infantile drawings aside, this game is a wonderful display of augmented reality. Honestly, I could easily see myself sitting around a display table, drinking beers and betting on our ships as they blasted each other off the map. Each combatant is drawn by the player on a game card that is scanned into [...]
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Paul Travers, the CEO of Vuzix, has been busy these days. Selling AR glasses to the military for one million a pop sounds like a good deal to me. Especially when that DARPA money helps fund a commercial version. May 3 (Bloomberg) — Augmented-reality glasses made by Vuzix Corp. may allow soldiers on the ground [...]
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