Frankly, I got tired with AR browsers. When Wikitude first launched I was excited. When Layar came out the whole blogosphere was thrilled. But now (only a couple of months after Layar went public), I’m feeling quite jaded. Everybody and his sister are making an AR browser application, and most of them are just he [...]
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Last year’s Android Developer Challenge brought us such augmented reality applications as Wikitude and Enkin (which, until I’m proven wrong, is the first AR vaporware). This time around, we are likely to see a surge in the number of AR applications participating in the challenge. An early bird, geoPaste, is coming to us all the [...]
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Mobile augmented reality becomes a crowded space really quickly, and I’m about to give up reporting about every application that pops into the lime light. Anyway, Robotvision is another iPhone “augmented reality browser” developed by Portland based Tim Sears. To be released in September (once iPhone OS 3.1 is out), Robotvision boasts some unique features [...]
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While I’m quite a skeptic whether Presslite’s Metro Paris application for the iPhone has “AR capabilities” in the version available on the appstore, there’s no denying Yelp’s application does. Found by Robert Scoble (I’m pretty sure it was leaked to Scoble), and brought to my awareness my ReadWriteWeb, shaking your iPhone while on Yelp’s main [...]
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Just a short tweet, to show you I’m still alive (actually, it was a tweet a few hours ago). Unfortunately, I’m not in Paris, but working hard at the moment. However, this next video presents an iPhone app that augments Paris (and looks suspiciously like acrossair applications). It’s called Métro Paris, and the augmented reality [...]
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If you read this post, you are probably an avid reader of this blog. If you are an avid reader of this blog, you are probably interested in AR. If you are interested in AR, you probably know that Layar had a fantastic day, at least PR wise: VentureBeat – “Augmented reality browser Layar expands [...]
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Are you a Wikitude or Layar supporter? Maybe Sekai Camera fan? The battle for supremacy at the augmented reality browsers market is getting more complicated by the minute, with two new contenders joining the fight. First, acrossair which brought us the Tube Finder, is now showing off a very slick “general purpose” AR browser for [...]
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A short post to keep you warm while I’m working on a longer series of posts I hope you all find interesting. Anyway, just two days ago I wrote about Acrossair new shooting game, Virus Killer 360: And I also mentioned iPhone ARKit, an interesting open source project to facilitate augmented reality development for the [...]
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Augmented Traffic Views is a pretty cool app that links your Android phone to Toronto’s traffic cameras to help you make better decisions for your daily commute. Alas, I don’t understand what the augmented reality part contributes to the application. As a matter of fact, it seems to only hurt usability. Would you rather physically [...]
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[A short apology. A few days ago, in a bout of paranoia, I wrote a short post suspecting that Sequence Point's ARound may be some kind of malware. I jumped to conclusions due to some intriguing aspects in Sequence Point's site. I should have contacted the developers before posting, but regretfully I did not. After [...]
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