Well, the following video is obviously not a show of augmented reality by any definition. The virtual entities are well orchestrated, and do not interact in real time with the actor. They are also projected on a screen behind the actor, so he can’t really see them. However, this video is still amazing, and more [...]
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Mario, probably the best known (fictional) plumber has already appeared in more than 200 games. No surprise that fans imagine an augmented reality game starring him. For example, here’s Youtube user Kain the heartbreaker‘s vision of a Mario game on iPhone 10: I don’t usually consider projection on buildings augmented reality, but this video from [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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