ISMAR 2009: Make the Best Augmented Reality App in Flash and Win a Prize!

ISMAR 2009 proudly announces the first Flash AR Contest sponsored by ARToolWorks. The contest is opened to anyone and is part of the inaugural Arts, Interactive Media and Humanities program for ISMAR 2009. The best FLARToolKit submission wins $1000 USD. (we know you’re in it just for the money) Contest rules: 1. Develop a desktop-based [...]

Special Message from Mark Billinghurst: Introducing FLARManager – Can Building AR Apps in Flash Be Easier?

July 1st 2009  Press Release ARToolworks Releases Commercial License for FLARManager ARToolworks is very pleased to announce that it is able to offer commercial licenses for the popular FLARManager software. FLARManager is a software framework developed by Eric Socolofsky that makes building FLARToolKit Flash based Augmented Reality applications easier. FLARManager decouples the marker-tracking functionality from [...]

The Augmented Real Slim Shady

Let’s start with a little contest – whoever comes with a better play on words for a title will be named the king of AR puns. Polydor Records, which is a British record label and part of Universal Music Group, has set up a competition to promote Eminem’s new record Relapse. Contestants are asked to [...]

Weekly Linkfest

That was quite a week for augmented reality. The top article at Games Alfresco was “Augmented Fear of Heights” (with about 1000 views!), and on Augmented Times the top post was about Marco Tempest’s magic Trick. There were so many news items this week, I couldn’t cover them all even if I wanted to (though, [...]

More Augmented Advertisement

Our friend Diego Gopen has notified us that his augmented advertisements service, ARvertising.com, has a new demo, one that lets you play augmented dice online: According to him it’s “100% random! good for stuff for casinos online ;) because it works with physics so it’s impossible to manage”. But beware Diego! There are new competitors [...]

Augmented Reality in Flash Now Commercially Available

Mark Billinghurst just shared with me the good news: ARToolworks announces commercial availability of FLARToolKit. He explains: Basically it means that companies can now get commercial licenses to FLARToolKit and build flash based Augmented reality websites without having to release their source code as required by the GPL license. Saqoosha (Tomohiko Koyama) was the first [...]

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