Weekly Linkfest

How are terracotta warriors, billiard, a coloring book and the city of Basel all related to each other? Well… they are featured in this week’s linkfest: Augmented reality glasses decipher emotional cues from other people, increase emotional intelligence. While other, concept, glasses strive to make those cues more visible (but since it’s not AR, it’s cheating). [...]

The Best of the Best in Augmented Reality Compete for Top Industry Award

Industry icons Bruce Sterling, Vernor Vinge, Will Wright and Jaron Lanier to judge “The Auggies” – at the worldʼs largest AR event. Register Today! SANTA CLARA, CA (April 26, 2011) – The Augmented Reality industry is getting ready to show off a new round of innovation to the technology, media, and marketing communities.  If you ever wondered about [...]

YDreams Interactive Booth at Maximidia Fair

In the future, everything will be interactive: walls, toilets, hammers, cars, small dogs…

Weekly Linkfest

As expected, this linkfest is full of ARE2010 stuff: Three of #ARE2010 are online – Bruce Sterling, Will Wright and Jesse Schell. I’m still looking for the Blaise Aguera y Arcas one. Google Goggles project manager Shailesh Nalawadi confirmed at ARE2010 once again that Goggles is coming to the iPhone soon. Total Immersion created a [...]

Weekly Linkfest

The last weekly linkfest before the augmented reality event, and the last one in the next couple of weeks. Here’s what happened this week in the world of augmented reality: Got half a hour? See this fine documentary about AR from Bloomberg.com. While I’m writing posts, Ori scores some VC bucks – Ogmento raised $3.5M [...]

Weekly Linkfest

Still waiting for Junaio. In the meantime the backlash against augmented reality (and the hype bubble surrounding it) has begun, with PSFK’s “Is Augmented Reality The Next Second Life?”, Fast Company’s “Put Your Phone Down: Augmented Reality Is Overblown” and Techdirt’s critique of gimmicky AR applications. Even Zugara has called on bloggers to cool down [...]

Weekly Linkfest

While reading this week’s linkfest you may find some links are missing – don’t worry, many ISMAR related links and videos will be posted later this week. “There will be at least one terrorist attack that has used mobile augmented reality for planning, practice, and execution.”, this is just one of many predicitons by Robert [...]

Weekly Linkfest

Let’s try to make this week’s linkfest as concise as possible: Tish Shute interviews Bruno Uzzan, CEO of Total Immersion for UgoTrade. Blair Mcintyre: “Has AR taken off? Is it finally here?“, check out the quote below. Augmented reality tested on board the international space station, to help astronauts in maintenance tasks. Another pseudo-AR game [...]

Weekly Linkfest

Hope you didn’t miss the weekly linkfest’s early edition, published yesterday, covering some of the best articles, posts and talks that were published during the week. Here are some more interesting bits from around the AR ecosystems making news this week: I forgot to mention it last week – here’s augmented.org review of augmented reality [...]

Boy Meets Girl Remake: Virtual Boy Meets Real Girl

YDreams’ Flapi will flip your mind. You all know the classic story: boy meets girl; girl plays with boy; boy falls in love with girl; girl leaves… Maria Palma just shared with me YDream‘s take on the story, featuring their virtual Mascot, Flapi the cute, and an even more cute – real girl (the Creative [...]

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