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