Friends, colleagues, and augmented reality enthusiasts at large – the early registration for ARE 2012 is open! We are just 3 and a half months away from another Augmented Reality Event, the world’s largest AR event, and I can’t wait. As one of the event chairs, I can share with you a secret – ARE 2012 is [...]
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Helen Papagiannis is a designer specializing in augmented reality. She’s spoken at TEDx about the creative side of AR, which was highlighted as one of the top talks about AR and the gamification of life and worked for the internationally renown Bruce Mau Design. And now she’s putting out a Augmented Reality Pop-Up Book for [...]
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK June 9, 2011– Flavorpill, known for curating the best cultural events in cities across the country, will launch their New York City Culture Hunt during the culmination of Internet Week New York. Part of Flavorpill’s social mission is to get people away from their computers and out exploring their city, and [...]
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The brilliance of Marco Tempest is not his magic or the technology he uses but his story telling. Art is a medium for communication and magic (especially the way he does it) is an art form that’s too often lost on gimmicks. Marco shows us how AR in its best form is forgotten as the [...]
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Yes, I still exist. Sorry, I’ve been out of the country for the last few weeks. But my travels did give me a glimpse into a fantastic game sporting the A and the R — Raving Rabbids. If you’re not familiar with the series, Raving Rabbids are the insanity pills of the gaming industry. Nothing [...]
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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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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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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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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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