It’s called OutRun, the brain-child of one Garnet Hertz. Although it’s an obvious example of mixed reality, rather than augmented reality, I believe it still falls under the jurisdiction of this blog
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If it’s real, then wow, just wow But it’s probably a fake, uploaded to youtube by a user who has joined the video sharing site just yesterday, and have managed to upload leaked videos of Mario Galaxy DS and Star Craft 2. The F word at the end of the clip above is also a [...]
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Quite an interesting batch of links we have today: Aurasma took DEMO by a storm, winning both DEMOgod and people’s choice award, a $1M prize (not in cash), and showcasing their new gesture feature. Congrats! New Scientist reports on a mobile app that harnesses machine vision to detect crosswalks and help the blind safely cross [...]
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Here is a crazy thought – is the industry mature enough for an AR benchmark? Specifically I thought such a benchmark should cover the following two topics: Comparing the performance of AR frameworks (such as Qualcomm’s AR SDK, Samsung SARI, etc.) using a given set of tests. Comparing the performance of devices using a given [...]
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For his graduation project for the HKU (Utrecht School of the Arts), Cor Baauw created a really compelling vision of the augmented future where virtual pets are common and one can change reality with few restrictions. Obviously, we are not likely to see this vision come to life in the next ten years (and possibly not in [...]
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A downpour of augmented reality links for you today: Brother’s AiRScouter see-through head mounted display is coming out this fall? One thing’s for sure, they Brother stresses the AR use cases of that device. The future of firefighting may be augmented according to Tanagram. As Toby points out, a firefighter wants 100% reliability which doesn’t [...]
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Well, I guess the title says it all. Leaf++ is the brain child of Italian artist Salvatore Iaconesi that couples together visual search and social networks to augment (you guessed it) leaves. A user can leave (no pun intended) a message on a leaf, to be seen later by other users scanning the same leaf type. [...]
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A few months ago Ralph Osterhout had a chance to present his vision for the future of HUDs at the e.g. conference. If you had to some his vision into one word it would be amazing. The list of features is endless, from night vision to high definition 3d display. Even more amazing, Osterhout claims [...]
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