Augmented Reality Panel at Virtual Worlds Conference

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Ori Inbar

For those of you who missed Virtual Worlds last week in LA, and therefore found it hard to attend the Augmented Reality Panel – David Orban was there for you.

Here are all 59 minutes of the discussion he recorded and uploaded. Thanks David!

Roo, the panel host, brilliantly captured a blow by blow of the discussion and included slides that were used to illustrate the panel. Kudos to Roo!

From the event program:

Augmented Reality: Virtual Interfaces to Tangible Spaces
– Marc Goodman, Director, Alcatel-Lucent
– Eric Rice, Producer, Slackstreet Studios
– Blair MacIntyre, Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Director, GVU Center Augmented Environments Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
– David Orban, Founder & Chief Evangelist, WideTag, Inc.
– Andrew (Roo) Reynolds, Portfolio Executive for Social Media, BBC Vision (moderator)

Now repeat after me this tongue twister: I virtually participated in the Virtual Worlds panel about augmented reality and I really augmented my world.

Next, we are off to ISMAR ’08 September 15-18th in Cambridge, UK!

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Unveiling Tonchidot: A Cool Parallel World – on the iPhone

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Ori Inbar

Yesterday, at the TechCrunch 50 conference in San Francisco, a small start up from Tokyo stole the show; the name: Technidot, the cool product they unveil: Sekai Camera (World Camera) running on the iPhone.

In their own words, the Sekai Camera is:

…a real-world interface for the iPhone that connects real and virtual worlds, allowing anybody to create, experience and participate in both.

While at your favorite mall, point your iPhone camera at things around you such as food, toys, art, transit maps, and get detailed information about it. More fun for you, more business for retailers.

AirFilter takes care of the customized search to bring you the additional information, based on a database generated by advertizers.

And you’re not on your own; the Sekai Camera is also a social networking environment: leave messages to your friends – in space – so they can see it when they pass by.

Isn’t that a killer augmented reality application?

And Tonchidot’s take on Evolution could become the symbol of the AR revolution…

Here is the coverage of the demo by Anthony Ha on VentureBeat : including enthusiasts and skeptics.

This just in! More skeptics!

Blair MacIntyre finds it hard to believe it’s real. The TechCrunch panelists were amused and confused but blamed it on the language barrier.

What do you think? Is it real? or really augmented?

Filip, many thanks for the tip!

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Will Wright: Augmented Reality – Way Forward For Mobile Gaming

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Ori Inbar

Captured in an interview with Pocket Gamer (Thanks!) in London via Kotaku:

“I can imagine mobile platforms evolving…in that they interact with the world around us in a way that changes our perceptions in a really interesting way”, said Wright, “Games could increase our awareness of our immediate environment, rather than distract us from it”.

Will Wright is by far my idol in the gaming world. He’s the smartest and the funniest, and he single handedly invents new game genres (SimCity, The Sims, Spore).

If you wonder why or how, give yourself 20 minutes off and watch his speech at TED…

 

Is Will joining the Augmented Reality revolution?

(Can you say “mega idol”?…)

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