Does this ad mark the transformation of augmented reality from being a term used by the tech-elite to one used by the commons?
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Gravity Jack Indoor Office and SDK
Posted on September 2, 2010 by thomaskcarpenter
Gravity Jack software firm has created an AR indoor office. I like the idea of populating an indoor space with augments. Personally, I wouldn’t use it for work. I’d rather dork up my writing space at home and show off my favorite LOLcats on the wall next to my computer. Each to his own, I [...]
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Online Image Learning – The Next Big Leap in Mobile AR?
Posted on August 31, 2010 by rouli
Mobile, image recognition based, augmented reality is very cool, as evident from the Popcode’s demos we posted yesterday. However, creation of a model used by the mobile phone to recognize a new image still requires a desktop, hindering realtime creation and sharing of AR content. Thanks to the work of researchers from the Korean Gwangju [...]
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Popcode Pops into the AR Scene
Posted on August 30, 2010 by rouli
The young British company, Extra Reality Ltd. (founded this June) has posted a couple of very impressive demos of its first product Popcode. With the goal of commercializing AR research done in the University of Cambridge, Popcode is a combination of marker based and marker less approaches. First the user needs to scan an easily [...]
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Weekly Linkfest
Posted on August 29, 2010 by rouli
On this edition of the weekly linkfest, face detection, bug squishing and Hollywood stars. Real time and quite robust face tracking on Nokia N900 from researchers at the University of Manchester. Not originally part of an AR project, but could be easily become one. [Via Zugara] Congrats to Kooaba for landing a $3 million funding [...]
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Augmented Shadow: The best AR project you’ll see today
Posted on August 25, 2010 by rouli
Beautiful work by programmer and designer Joon Y. Moon using a projector hidden inside a table. Words can hardly do it justice, so just watch the video: Apparently Augmented Shadow stems from Moon’s MFA thesis in Design & Technology for Parsons. He writes: In this installation, the shadows exist both in a real and a [...]
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ISMAR 2010 Mobile AR Summit
Posted on August 25, 2010 by thomaskcarpenter
October is coming up fast. Seems like it was just the other day we were waiting for ARE2010 and now it’s gone and ISMAR2010 is almost here. One of the highlights of ISMAR2010 will be the Mobile AR Summit, chaired by Christine Perey, Jung-hee Ryu and Woontack Woo. The event will be held on October [...]
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Gundam Robots in Augmented Reality
Posted on August 24, 2010 by rouli
This post can be summarized by three magic terms: Augmented Reality Giant Robots Yahoo Japan Yes, it seems that the Japanese branch of Yahoo is much cooler than its American counter part. They have recently announced the coming release of a free iPhone application set to display a virual Zaku II mecha from the animated [...]
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ARE2010 Video Montage
Posted on August 23, 2010 by thomaskcarpenter
Sweet montage video of ARE2010 highlights. Nothing more to say!
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