I had a pleasant surprise this morning when Chris O’Shea sent me a mail with his latest work Hand from Above. This public art installation features a giant hand that through the magic of OpenCV and some smart programming on O’Shea’s part, tickles, picks and pounds unsuspecting pedestrians: Yes, I know, it’s not augmented reality [...]
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Just a short video for this lazy Saturday afternoon. The German federal election are held tomorrow, and the voting form may be confusing for some. Luckily, augmented reality is here to help you do the right choice: Sounds a bit illegal, though I can see parties using such application for a last minute self-advertisement. Unfortunately, [...]
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Researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara have a lofty goal on their minds – “Anywhere Augmentation”, which means augmenting arbitrary environments with little prior preparation. Or as they put it: The main goal of this work is to lower the barrier of broad acceptance for augmented reality by expanding beyond research prototypes that [...]
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The posts I like the most are about student projects. Luckily here’s another one. A couple of students from the German research institute, the Fraunhofer Society created what they name “The Augmented Reality Flashlight”. Basically, it’s a micro-projector held as a flashlight to shed light (i.e. annotate) objects in your vicinity. Yep, projected AR is [...]
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This writer’s favorite AR developer, Sein Kanemura, has just posted an English description of his latest mobile application SREngine Lite. Unlike the full blown SREngine, this one does not try to augment a video feed, but rather tackles the simpler task of mobile image recognition. It similar to Nokia’s Point and Find and some other [...]
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This next augmented reality concept , named FoodTracer, comes to us from Italian Giuseppe Costanza, as his final year project for MA Communication Design at Central Saint Martins. And it’s quite an impressive final project! Aimed to give consumers more information about the food products they are buying (such as their carbon footprint and where [...]
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Yep, it’s the silliest post title I’ve ever come up with. Nevertheless, this next video is really cool. It features both a robotic pool player and an augmented reality guidance system for human pool players (starting at 2:00). It was developed by a team of researchers from Canada’s Queen’s university. Sadly, I couldn’t find much [...]
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When it comes to using augmented reality for marketing purposes, nothing beats those magic mirror applications. After all, trying on a product, even virtually, goes a long way towards selling it (and surely it’s better than those novelty AR gimmicks). Previously I’ve covered Fraunhofer’s magic mirror that lets you try on new shirts, and just [...]
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Sein has just posted a new video on his blog (in Japanese, though an English version is apparently in the workings). I think it’s really amazing what one man can do on his own: I’ve covered SREngine before, and so did Ori, and from video to video you could really see how this application takes [...]
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