On this edition of the weekly linkfest, face detection, bug squishing and Hollywood stars. Real time and quite robust face tracking on Nokia N900 from researchers at the University of Manchester. Not originally part of an AR project, but could be easily become one. [Via Zugara] Congrats to Kooaba for landing a $3 million funding [...]
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Swiss augmented reality company kooaba and ETH Zurich have joined forces to create a rather impressive augmented reality browser prototype, which I’ll refer to as the Koo (since it lacks any official name). Unlike existing browsers out there, the Koo doesn’t rely on GPS and compass readings to decide what’s in front of it, but [...]
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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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The Swiss Kooaba just keeps on innovating. In January Kooaba was behind the first daily newspaper that was fully augmented. Now it is the first (as far as I can tell) that offers a public, free (though limited) to their image recognition capabilities. Using the api, one can send up to 50 daily image queries [...]
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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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Actually, it was a relatively quiet week in the ARSphere. Here are some links to news bits that I haven’t had the time to cover over here: In the mobile AR front: Kooaba is an iPhone application that much like Snaptell (or Nokia’s “Point and Find”) lets you take a picture of a product and [...]
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