Augmented Shadow: The best AR project you’ll see today

Beautiful work by programmer and designer Joon Y. Moon using a projector hidden inside a table. Words can hardly do it justice, so just watch the video: Apparently Augmented Shadow stems from Moon’s MFA thesis in Design & Technology for Parsons. He writes: In this installation, the shadows exist both in a real and a [...]

Weekly Linkfest

I hate August. It’s too darn hot over here. Luckily there a few cool and refreshing augmented reality stories this week: Lester of Augmented Planet on why augmented reality glasses are 20 years away. I sadly have to agree. It’s another reason why people should consider publicly-installed AR projectors has a viable option. Augmented Planet [...]

Augmented Reality for Autism

I have very little experience with people on the Autistic spectrum, but designer Timothy Byrne of Western Washington University has a brother with an autistic disorder, a fact the propelled him to invent “Sixthsense for Autism”. Building upon MIT’s Pranav Mistry’s SixthSense technology, this conceptual project tries to provide its user social cues for everyday [...]

Weekly Linkfest

It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another weekly linkfest: Tish Shute has a short interview with Sims creator (though I’ll always remember him for Simcity) Will Wright. Highlights: “our senses are set up to know how to filter out 99% of what is coming into them. That is why they work, and that is what [...]

ARGO – Learn Go with Augmented Reality

Go. A game with such simple rules, that is surprisingly hard to master. It’s the last bastion of humanity against the rising power of game playing artificial intelligence. And now, there’s a cool projected AR board that will help you hone your skills in the game. Presented by a group of researchers from Japan and [...]

Sportpong – It’s Fun Being a Paddle

In Switzerland you can play Pong. Yeah, I know, you can play Pong for about 30 years all around the world, but you could never play it like this – outside, with your legs serving as paddles. It’s nothing new either – you could have rent the setup for the game for at least a [...]

Sixth Sense at TED India

I thought that the next talk given by MIT’s Pranav Mistry at TED India earlier this month was worth posting over here. True, most of the use cases shown in this video were already presented on February. And true, Graz’s Daniel wagner was absolutely right calling Sixth Sense conceptual. Yet, even as a conceptual work, [...]

ARScope: Augmented Reality Through the Crystal Ball

ARScope originally Presented at SIGGRAPH 2008 by the University of Tokyo (yes, the guys behind ARForce), is obviously not a new concept. However, as far as I can see, it got only little coverage at the time, and certainly deserves our attention. ARScope is an interesting combination of old world metaphors such as a magnifying [...]

Augmented Reality Flashlight

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 [...]

Weekly Linkfest

Before going on with our scheduled linkfest, I would like to pose a question to my readers. Am I updating too much, or not enough? How many augmented reality related posts would you like to read per week? Your opinion is important to me, so please comment away on this topic. Now, without further ado, [...]