Oh my, what an interesting week for augmented reality, especially in the business front: Nokia Beta Labs revealed Live View, a revolutionary mobile augmented reality application. Well, unless you consider Wikitude, Layar, Junaio and many other “AR browsers” that came out in the last three years. Nokia was once a leader in AR research, it’s a [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Fraunhofer, GeoVector, linkfest, Live View, Microsoft, nokia, Omek, Vuzix | 3 Comments »
Paul Travers, the CEO of Vuzix, has been busy these days. Selling AR glasses to the military for one million a pop sounds like a good deal to me. Especially when that DARPA money helps fund a commercial version. May 3 (Bloomberg) — Augmented-reality glasses made by Vuzix Corp. may allow soldiers on the ground [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: augmented reality, Bloomberg, Darpa, Paul Travers, Vuzix | 1 Comment »
We have got plenty of augmented reality links this week, so enjoy the show: From CES: Recon’s ski goggles with built in display, gps and other sensors, and as this video shows, you can even add a camera to it. Imagine what a talented hacker can do with this setup. Vuzix presented Raptyr, the first [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Kinect, nokia, Point and Find, Recon, TU Munich, Vuzix | 3 Comments »
No doubt about it, this week was under the sign of Kinect. Dozens of amateur programers used the OpenKinect drivers to create wonderful, many times AR related, demos. These and more in this week’s linkfest: Kinect hacking is nice, but the biggest news of the week is coming from Layar which raised another $14M. Follow [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Google, Google Goggles, Kinect, Layar, linkfest, open kinect, Vuzix | Leave a Comment »
While we augmented reality aficionados would like to believe that AR has hit its stride, the nascent technology is no where near the level of 3D movies and TVs. This all may change in the future, but for now the 3D movement far outweighs AR. This isn’t so bad as I believe, and will try to [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: 3D Movies, 3D TV, AR Games, Armida, augmented reality, Lady Gaga, Vuzix | 4 Comments »
Reporting live from The Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, with my Augmented Reality filter on – here are the stats: 0 (Zero) Number of mentions of Augmented Reality during Sid Meier’s keynote – the game design legend behind “Civilization” Truth be told – also missing from the keynote were mobile games, social games, casual [...]
Filed under: AR Demos, AR Events | Tagged: Vuzix, Diarmid Campbell, Ghostwire, Tom Soderlund, Beyond Reality, AR Drone, Jesse Schell, real life RPGs, Sony EyePet, Sony Move, Facebook, GDC 2010, Tony Tseng, Keith Lee, Booyah, 3DVia | 6 Comments »
The Vuzix Wrap 920AR aren’t the sexiest of specs, but they do perform the function of AR glasses. I got a chance to see this setup at ISMAR09 which they’re now showing at CES 2010. The specs for the glasses look like: The stereo camera pair delivers a single 1504 x 480 side-by-side image that [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: AR Games, augmented reality, CES2010, Craig Kapp, Georgia Tech, ISMAR 2009, Vuzix, Vuzix Wrap 920 AR | 8 Comments »
