Had a very good trip to the US (apart from the trans-atlantic flights) and now I’m back! Let’s see what I have been missing – Modojo laments the sad state of augmented reality video games: “Thus far, no company has been willing to create an augmented reality video game based on a million selling series. [...]
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Wow, what a busy week. I’ve listed below only a few of this week’s AR related news stories, just to protect you from an information overload. I hope to blog about the other stories in the coming days. This computer vision and augmented reality mind map found by Etsuji, is a bit lacking on the [...]
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This tradition cannot be stopped, here’s another weekly linkfest: Pocket Lint posted many articles about AR celebrating “AR Week“, and I must admit that I haven’t read any one of those yet for a lack of time. But they do seem interesting though! Sony follows Nintendo’s lead, and demos augmented reality on the next gen [...]
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Looking for a way to send Christmas greeting cards to your friends with an augmented reality twist? There are already three options for doing just that. Sony Ericsson lets you create a virtual Christmas tree that features pictures of you and your (Facebook) friends that appears once you wave your mobile phone in front of [...]
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Back from my short hiatus. As I wasn’t able to attend ISMAR, I had to follow the conference via the impressions of others: If you hadn’t read it yet, you sould – Ori’s ISMAR summary: “Top 10 tidbits reshaping the augmented reality industry“. I’ve found his sixth bullet point, the shortest of them all, the [...]
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Our inaugural post from early 2008: “Top 10 AR demos that will…” sparked huge interest. Since then, we have witnessed loads of AR games swarming the market. Well, that may be an exaggeration – but the industry has certainly transitioned from delivering mere demos to actual games; from proof of concepts to commercial products; from [...]
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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, [...]
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Yet another quick post, just before I go to (my real) work. Sony is developing its own AR game for a camera enhanced PSP, named InVizimals. A combination of GhostWire and int13′s Kweekies, players have to hunt around their houses for monsters, and later can set the monsters to fight each other. I really like [...]
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Welcome to the late evening keynote of the second day of ISMAR ’08 in Cambridge. The keynote speaker is Diarmid Campbell, from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (London), and heads its research on camera gaming. And we are covering it in real time. Diarmid comes on stage. the crowed is going crazy… The talk: Out of [...]
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