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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Tomorrow, I’ll be at the IEEE VR 2010 conference in Boston. Monday is dedicated to a series of augmented reality presentations. One of the most interesting one is: In-Place Sketching for Content Authoring in Augmented Reality Games By the all star team from Ben Gurion University (Israel) and HIT Lab (New Zealand): Nate Hagbi Raphaël [...]
Filed under: AR Events | Tagged: Mark Billinghurst, Nate Hagbi, Oriel Bergig, Jihad El-Sana, Raphael Grasset, HIT Lab, Ben Gurion University | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: AR Demos, AR Events | Tagged: augmented reality, Mark Billinghurst, Nate Hagbi, Oriel Bergig, Jihad El-Sana, HIT Lab NZ, Shape recognition, VML, Sketch Recognition | 42 Comments »
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 [...]
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Our belief: …in 10-15 years everyone will use Augmented Reality to experience the world in a more meaningful way. Our collective mission: …nurture a healthy industry that will drive the adoption sooner than later. So where do we start? …by educating the youngest “digital natives”. That generation is ripe and eager to try new experiences [...]
Filed under: AR Games, AR Education | Tagged: Augmented Reality Gaming in Education for Engaged Learn, Big Fish Little Fish, Cathy Cavanaugh, Charles River City, Create-a-Scape, duventure Middle Rhine, Education Arcade, Effective Electronic Gaming in Education, Environmental Detectives, Epidemic Menace, Eric Klopfer, Fraunhofer Institute, Future Lab, HandLeR, HARP, Institute for Knowledge Media, Live Long and Prosper, Mark Billinghurst, Mike Adams, Mobi Mission, Mystery @ the Museum, Newtoon, Outbreak @ MIT, Savannah, Sugar and Spice, University of Birmingham, Virus | 8 Comments »
Welcome to the climax of ISMAR ’08. On stage the 9 “gods” of the augmented reality community. And they are siting in a panel to muse about the next 10 years of augmented reality. Dieter Schmalstieg took on the unenviable job of moderating this crowd of big wigs. See if he can curb them down [...]
Filed under: AR Events | Tagged: AR Vision, augmented reality, Bruce Thomas, Dieter Schmalstieg, Gudrun Klinker, Haruo Takemura, ISMAR 08, Mark Billinghurst, Nassir Navab, Reinhold Behringer, Ron Azuma, Steve Feiner | Leave a Comment »
Caffeine levels are set after the well deserved coffee break, and we are back to discuss AR layouts. Onstage Steven Feiner introducing the speakers of this session. First presenter is Nate Hagbi which is touching on an unusual topic that often is seen as a given: In-Place Augmented Reality: A new way for storing and [...]
Filed under: AR Events, AR User Experience | Tagged: Mark Billinghurst, ISMAR 08, Nate Hagbi, Oriel Bergig, Jihad El-Sana, Klara Kedem, Kohei Tanaka, Yasue Kishino, Masakazu Miyamae, Tsutomu Terada, Shojiro Nishio, Stephen Peterson, Magnus Axholt, Stephen Ellis | 1 Comment »
