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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To my many readers coming from Japan – my heart goes to you, and I hope your families are safe. It’s difficult to discuss “augmented reality” in the face of “tragic reality”, but I’ll do my best with this week’s linkfest. Technology Review: Turning augmented reality into an open standard – on Georgia Tech’s Argon. [...]
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You’ve been waiting for this the whole week – here’s the weekly linkfest: Augmented Planet has a round up of all the coming AR events this year. Interesting piece on New Scientist – Augmented reality iPhone helps police track suspects. Chris Grayson published a very good presentation on face tracking and face recognition. Pity there’s [...]
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In late June, the establishment of Qualcomm Augmented Reality Game Studio was announced, a partnership between Qualcomm and Georgia Tech’s Augmented Environments Lab, with the goal of “pioneering new advancements in mobile gaming and interactive media“. Six months later, the first crop of mobile based games is coming out of the studio, and this blogger [...]
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The Vuzix Wrap 920AR aren’t the sexiest of specs, but they do perform the function of AR glasses. I got a chance to see this setup at ISMAR09 which they’re now showing at CES 2010. The specs for the glasses look like: The stereo camera pair delivers a single 1504 x 480 side-by-side image that [...]
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Tish Shute continues with her enlightening series of interviews on UgoTrade. After previously interviewing Ori Inbar and Robert Rice, Blair MacIntyre was a natural choice. MacIntyre discusses his work at Georgia Tech (which I briefly wrote about here), and shares his perspective on future directions for mobile augmented reality. A lot of folks think it [...]
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