Weekly Linkfest – The Justin Bieber Edition

This linkfest has nothing to do with Justin Bieber, and everything to do with augmented reality news bites from the last week. I’m just checking if the mere inclusion of Mr. Bieber in the title will generate more hits. Christopher Mitchell hacked together a Vuzix VR920 HUD and eeePC to create a basic facial recognition [...]

Weekly Linkfest

This is the last linkfest for this year. Though there were many more Christmas spectacles this week, I’m going to keep this linkfest holiday-spirit free (broke my nose, not feeling very festive). Robert Rice on 2010, the first year in the decade of ubiquity – “The point though, is that all of these things calling [...]

Weekly Linkfest

Yes, the moment you were all waiting for, it’s time for another weekly linkfest – Google Goggles Galore: Google Goggles review at Augmented Planet. Nice overview, and a good video showing some of Goggles capabilities. Google Goggles is the real thing, or so claims Blake Callens of Zugara. Nice video showing it identifying a dart [...]

Weekly Linkfest

It’s time again for the weekly linkfest. Let’s see what else happened this week in the world of augmented reality: Tish Shute interviews Ken Inoue, CFO of Tonchidot, on Sekai Camera and AR commons, the organization Tonchidot helped to create. New Scientist: “Augmented reality gets off to a wobbly start“. If I may quote Tim [...]

Weekly Linkfest

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 [...]

Updates from the Frontline

Continuing my coverage of the augmented reality browser wars, here are the latest news (well, some of them are a few days old, excuse me for procrastinating a bit): AcrossAir is not satisfied with letting you find the closest subway station in London (where it’s called The Tube), it also has its sights on the [...]

Open Letter to Apple: Let us Augment Reality with the iPhone!

A letter sent to Apple Developer Relations. Dear Apple, We are a collection of augmented reality (AR) enthusiasts and professionals (from business and academia), who have been working on a multitude of AR apps for the iPhone. These apps are poised to change the way people interact with the real world. But here is the [...]

11 Industries to be Reinvented with Augmented Reality

We have been raving about how Augmented Reality will reinvent reality. Which slices of “reality” will be affected by AR first? Researchers and entrepreneurs worldwide are already plotting its impact on specific industries. Investors – here’s a chance to educate yourselves. Here are 11 of my favorite clips depicting industries reinvented with augmented reality: (Credits [...]

Unveiling Tonchidot: A Cool Parallel World – on the iPhone

Yesterday, at the TechCrunch 50 conference in San Francisco, a small start up from Tokyo stole the show; the name: Technidot, the cool product they unveil: Sekai Camera (World Camera) running on the iPhone. In their own words, the Sekai Camera is: …a real-world interface for the iPhone that connects real and virtual worlds, allowing [...]

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