Now you can embed Layar in your own iPhone application
First there were augmented reality cookies, now AR cake, what’s next?
Are QR codes killing art? (from the guys at Pongr, who coincidentally make real image recognition engine)
For this week’s video, I’ve got one that is a couple of months old but I’ve never found the right time to feature it in a post. It’s a video demoing the thesis work of one Willem Van den Eynde. I wish I could tell you more, but I don’t read Dutch (?) that well. Still cool for a thesis:
As for this week’s video we’ve got a little fun game from Total Immersion’s Partner C4M to promote French pasta brand Lustucru. Unlike previous TI games, this one is iPhone based, though there’s still a webcam version. It’s called Germaine et les Martiens:
Flying drones, electronic musician and virtual girlfriends, all in this week’s linkfest:
170 years after introducing the first postage stamp, Britain now introduces the first augmented stamp (though it requires German technology from Metaio)
For this week’s video we’ve got yet another futuristic vision, this time by German designer Björn Matthes. In his diploma project, Araproject, Matthes adds an energetic urban twist to augmented reality:
Have a beautiful week, happy Eid-ul-Fitr and Rosh Hashanah.
On this edition of the weekly linkfest, face detection, bug squishing and Hollywood stars.
Real time and quite robust face tracking on Nokia N900 from researchers at the University of Manchester. Not originally part of an AR project, but could be easily become one. [Via Zugara]
A multi-part video interview with Robert Rice. Probably Future Labs will upload it to their site in the coming days for a more comfortable viewing experience.
Want an augmented version of Hollywood’s Star Walk? There’s an app for that, and it will cost you 3 bucks. Would someone create a free channel for Layar or Wikitude, please?
This week’s video comes to us from Youtube user bittman25, or as his friends call him Danny. The clip is called “If Minority Report Was Our Twisted Reality”. It’s not a masterpiece, but has a nice twist at the end:
I hate August. It’s too darn hot over here. Luckily there a few cool and refreshing augmented reality stories this week:
Lester of Augmented Planet on why augmented reality glasses are 20 years away. I sadly have to agree. It’s another reason why people should consider publicly-installed AR projectors has a viable option.
Damon Hernandez continues with his video interviews series, this time with the “AR magician”, Marco Tempest (with some behind the scenes at some of his magics).
This week’s video is of a year old, yet cool project by Karolina Sobecka with software development by Jim George. Sniff is a projected virtual dog that interacts with people passing it on the street. You can find lots more detail over Sobecka’s site (where you can watch other fun projector based projects, like Chase). [via Augmentology]
Celebrating Ben Affleck’s 38th birthday, here’s this week’s linkfest:
“Augspace has turned the city into an onion — if every layer of the onion had a distinct flavor“; Everything is Clickable – a look a futuristic augmented day by Jack Graham (via @chrisgrayson)
Ever wondered who’s the most influential twitter user among the AR crowd? According to peerindex.net it’s none other than Tonchidot’s Takahito Iguchi, though you are more than welcome to follow me
Today’s video is of a project named “SMSlingshot” by the guys at VR/Urban (also check the link for its predecessor, the Spreadgun). As you can guess by its name, it’s a slingshot that throws short text messages at walls (aided by a powerful projector). The results are quite beautiful:
This linkfest has nothing to do with Justin Bieber, and everything to do with augmented reality news bites from the last week. I’m just checking if the mere inclusion of Mr. Bieber in the title will generate more hits.
I’m terribly late on this, but apparently on ARE 2010, Georgia Tech previewed their open source and open standards Kamra Mobile AR Browser. Have to thank Chris Grayson for bringing it to my attention.
Samsung’s Bada mobile OS seems to be the hip place for AR games development. This time it’s our pals at int13 with their release of ARDefender game.
Metaio is holding a one day long conference called insideAR. I usually don’t promote such events, but they got me when they bundled it with Oktoberfest. Augmented reality and Beer, a match made in heaven?
This week’s video is a promotion video for Sekai Camera. Tonchidot, the company behind this veteran AR browser recently got a $5M from Japan’s telecom giant KDDI (though some claim that KDDI actually bought Tonchidot). And if that’s not enough, Tonchidot announced the creation of social AR game. The future looks bright for those guys:
Another bounty of delicious links awaits those who read the weekly linkfest:
A very early release of Robert Rice’s Mirascape is online. For the moment it’s Android only, but apparently the iPhone version is waiting approval, and once it hits the appstore I’ll write a full review of it.
This week’s video is of Junaio Glue. Nothing special, just a nice demonstration of marker less tracking on a non flat surface. Or in other words, the coolest coffee mug I’ve seen yet:
Short linkfest this time, due to some prior engagements. Still, I think you’ll find some treasures among today’s links:
A very fine piece on Adbusters, debating whether augmented reality gives us a false sense of activism while we actually succumb to the cruelty of reality.
Facebook my be working on mobile augmented reality features (which is probably only going to be a tiny part of their location based services).
I’ve never quite understood why would anyone play a 3d version of Tetris, but if you enjoy such an activity, you may want to augment it a bit.
If you are a CS graduate you may have encountered ACM. Usually they put their articles behind a pay-wall, but not this one – Mainstreaming augmented reality.
Video of the week is of a new AR game just released for the iPhone, Android, Symbian operating system (yes, such a thing exist), called AR! Pirates. Created by Optricks Media, best known for those augmented Bamzookis, the game play is not much more sophisticated than ye olde paratrooper game, but heck, it’s probably your best option to drown pirate ships with your phone. It costs £0.99, and you can read more about it on Augmented Planet.
After a month long hiatus, it’s back! The weekly linkfest is here, with a fresh batch of links:
Top headline of the week obviously goes to Qualcomm, which will launch a free vision based AR framework for Android this fall. In order to encourage developers to use their SDK, Qualcomm holds a contest for best use of the framework, first prize is $125000. I have to get myself an Android phone and start working on that AR Farmville concept! Who’s with me?
Video of the week shows a social hacking feat which will probably become a common practice as AR goes mainstream. Mark Skwarek and Joseph Hocking created “The leak in your home town”, an augmented reality application for the iPhone, which displays a virtual oil spill whenever you set the phone’s camera on a BP logo. Don’t expect to see it on the AppStore anytime soon. (via Beyond the Beyond):
Games Alfresco 