How are terracotta warriors, billiard, a coloring book and the city of Basel all related to each other? Well… they are featured in this week’s linkfest: Augmented reality glasses decipher emotional cues from other people, increase emotional intelligence. While other, concept, glasses strive to make those cues more visible (but since it’s not AR, it’s cheating). [...]
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The HIT Lab NZ has just released a professional version of it’s popular BuildAR AR scene building tool. This allows non-programmers to easily build AR scenes. The professional version includes a number of new features such as support for audio and video, multiple objects on AR markers, 2D image and text loading, VR viewing mode, [...]
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This week saw the realization of two conferences dedicated to augmented reality – the AR Conference and the European AR Business Conference. Sadly, no videos from the two are currently available online. But here several other things that are available online: Augmented Planet on why mobile augmented reality is much like Marmite. Tish Shute gave [...]
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It will be a challenge cramming all of this week’s links into seven bullet points and a video, but I’ll try my best: This week featured a couple of augmented Easter eggs hunts, but only one, as far as I can tell, April fools prank – Kooaba sold for $50 million on eBay. Last year [...]
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In my pursuit of the ultimate augmented reality game – 2009 was a landmark year. From 0 to 30 selling games in 4 months is nothing short of stunning (and makes my 2010 prediction of 10x more AR games – not too bold…;) 2009 was the year AR games broke from the lab into the [...]
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A slow news week, and I’m not the only one who thinks so. Nevertheless, here are some augmented reality related news from around the web: The future digital life has a nice round up of augmented reality used for entertainment. While Augmented Planet has a round up of educational augmented reality applications. A group of [...]
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Following are some AR tricks and treats I’ve collected over the last month, which make me think this Halloween should be declared as the first augmented holiday. Judge for yourself. First we have the interactive Halloween mirror from Instructables. This little do-it-yourself project will let you and your party guests try out gory and scary [...]
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ISMAR 2009 the world’s best augmented reality event starts in 3 days! If you are still contemplating whether to go – check out what you might be missing on our preview post. The folks from the Visual Media Lab at Ben Gurion University in collaboration with HIT Lab NZ are preparing a real treat for [...]
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The guys at Hit Lab New Zealand and the Visual Media Lab at the Ben Gurion University, Israel, have uploaded a new video presenting the results of their ISMAR09 paper “In-Place 3D Sketching for Authoring and Augmenting Mechanical Systems”. Since the paper is not online yet, I can’t really tell how much of it is [...]
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