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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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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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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iWatermelon – Augmented Ripeness Checker
Posted on May 17, 2010 by rouli
Augmented reality. Once used to improve the construction of jet planes. Now it improves your chances of finding a ripe watermelon. Available on the appstore and costs only a buck. (and yes, I find it more augmented reality than many visual applications we have seen this last year. Although lacking a visual integration, it does [...]
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Going to the Augmented Museum
Posted on March 19, 2010 by rouli
Simple, useful and probably feasible (though not on the iPhone) AR application in the following concept video by Tate Strickland an American graphic design student:
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Locatory – Play with Gamaray
Posted on March 14, 2010 by rouli
Editor note: OOPS! Originally this post was scheduled for early December, but somehow I forgot to publish it. Sorry Locatory guys! ——- As veteran readers of this blog surely know, official development of Gamaray, an AR browser for Android was terminated, and its code has been open-sourced. Recently I’ve learned about an interesting project by [...]
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iButterfly – Augmented Coupons with Wings
Posted on February 1, 2010 by rouli
I really fancy this next iPhone app. It’s called iButterfly and it transforms the habit of collecting coupons into a fun little game. Created by Japan’s Mobile Art Lab, the app tasks its users with catching virtual butterflies , each representing one or more coupons. You can even share “butterflies” with your friends via Bluetooth. [...]
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Augmented Reality, Newspapers’ Last Best Hope?
Posted on January 22, 2010 by rouli
We all know the future looks quite bleak for newspapers and journals. Many publications have already fallen victims to the predatory internet with its free, easily accessible and real time reports. Some have speculated that newspapers must either over-specialize or abandon their offline presence in order to survive the coming decade. However, there’s another option [...]
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