And finally, if ARE2010 left you hungry for more and speak Italian, maybe you’ll find IAR2010 interesting.
This week’s video is not from ARE2010, but cool nonetheless. EXMAR is a conceptual periscope-like device that attaches to your mobile phone and lets you see an augmented view of your surrounding without pointing directly at anything. It’s great for minimizing hand strain, looking behind you and admittedly for perverts. Created by students at Korea’s KAIST institute, the related paper was submitted to ISMAR10 but is not available online as far as I can tell
Have a great week, see you back on the 20th (unless my flight will be canceled again).
I’m back! (but not for long, following the augmented reality event I’ll be mostly offline for three weeks). Speaking of augmented reality events, this week’s linkfest is full of talks from other events that took place recently:
Total Immersion’s presentation on the augmented reality business event in Germany. You can skip the first part of TI’s COO Eric Gehl talk (he’s mostly demoing TI products), but on the second part he talks about making money of AR.
Zugara explains why augmented reality may have a Jan Brady’s complex. They also gave a talk about the potential of AR to GSD&M Ideacity (an advertisement agency). Here are the slides.
This week’s video demonstrates cooking with AR, a video showcasing some of Yoo Kyoung Noh’s concepts presented in her Object 2.0 project – a concept proposal for the system of the near future, where the Internet is integrated into physical objects and spaces. Via Beyond The Beyond:
This week’s video is of a kid playing air AR guitar, a promotion to some Disney product, I think. On the bright side, it’s the first time I see augmentation of the torso (and not the head). Via Development Memo For Ourselves
This week saw the realization of two conferences dedicated to augmented reality – the AR Conference and the European AR Business Conference. Sadly, no videos from the two are currently available online. But here several other things that are available online:
Think what a single hype cycle for “video” would look like. Then consider TV, online video, outdoor billboards, mobile phone displays, that is to say — moving images are a very big idea. Different implementations are adopted in different ways at different rates… AR is also a very big idea that has many manifestations.
And this week’s video is a commercial to augmented reality head up display called the “Stark HUD”. Unfortunately you will not be able them anytime soon, since they are part of an elaborated campaign promoting the release of “Iron Man 2”, which also includes a web application that lets you try on iron man’s mask.
Well yes, looking back at it, this was quite a dry week. Anyway, here’s a couple of weeks old video I just waited for the opportunity to put up in the weekly linkfest. It’s AR in a shoebox, created by Kenneth Bogert, aPhD student from Georgia. You can read more about it over here.
Avez vous une joyeuse semaine de la langue française! (yeah, probably screwed the translation up, sorry int13 guys!)
I made it! (though I’ve cheated with that second bullet point, and left Total Immersion’s AR Luke Skywalker out (oh, I’ve cheated again!). Anyway, here’s a nice interview with Robert Scoble about Junaio and AR in general. Apparently Scoble doesn’t think AR is disruptive but fancy it a lot.
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another weekly linkfest:
Tish Shute has a short interview with Sims creator (though I’ll always remember him for Simcity) Will Wright. Highlights:
“our senses are set up to know how to filter out 99% of what is coming into them. That is why they work, and that is what is beneficial. I think that is why AR needs to focus on”
The weekly video is not exactly a demo of an augmented reality system, but it relates well to other projected interfaces we have featured previously. It’s made by Microvision, and it’s pretty cool (as long as you don’t have any furniture, rugs or ceiling lamps in your room) [via ecademy.com]:
As you might have noticed, I’ve been on hiatus from blogging for the last couple of weeks, but hopefully I’ll have more time on my hands from now on. I haven’t really kept track of what’s happening in the AR Sphere in the last week, so sorry if this linkfest seems a bit anemic (and sorry if you sent me a link by email and I forgot to publish it)
Flash has FLARToolkit. Silverlight developers, please welcome the SLARToolkit.
Which leads nicely to this demo of Comverse’s mobile face recognition application. It’s not really AR (though it was celebrated as such), but I guess it can be useful in conferences.
Augmented tombstones. I actually think this will become common in 80 years or so when the internet generation will get disconnected for a final last time.
And finally, Glow is an iPhone app that will let you see how your friends are feeling, which could go very nicely with TAT’s recognizer but makes do with a browser like augmentation.
This week’s video is waiting for me to blog about for more than a week. But Toby beat me to it (damn hiatus!). It’s called Imersive Rail Shooter and it’s the work of one David Arenou. And it’s real. If you want to read more about it (and that’s a sure thing after watching the video), you can find more details on Augmented.org.
Yep, I was too busy this week to write posts, and the coming week doesn’t seem to be better. Luckily, there’s always the weekly linkfest, where I can point to news stories that I haven’t covered this week (some of those you might have seen if you are following me on twitter):
Augmented Planet’s Lester Madden has been to the World Mobile Congress and brings us some highlights.
At the WMC, Layar announced the launch of an “augmented reality appstore” (how’s that link for SEO?), where publishers would sell layers. Oh, and their scored another $3.4M in funding.
Sequence Point, on their end, announced the creation of OpenMAR a fully open source project based on their ARound application, to bring augmented reality to the Symbian platfrom. (more on this when I’ll have time)
The weekly video is of a concept application that merges historical photographs of buildings with the images captured by a mobile phone. Created by the Dutch MonkeyPunch group it shows what could happen if Microsoft will add a web interface to their latest batch of Photosynth features:
Tish Shute talks with Brady Forest of Where 2.0 on commercial AR models, whether this is going to be the year of augmented reality and what were the breakthroughs of 2009 (and of course, ARWave)
RealVision.ae calls for using augmented reality when coming to teach history. That’s a winning proposal, however you probably won’t be able to be in the actual location to “AR-experience” most of history lessons (unless your school is super rich).
The guys responsible for Yelp’s Monocole give a lecture at Stanford’s iPhone application development class.
SparkView is a mobile AR browser for tracking people.
GlyphPlayer is a one stop shop for all your marker based AR needs (free for non-commercial use)
And, for the Chinese new year, now you can download an application for your iPhone showing where you can drink Tiger beer in London’s Chinatown. Apparently it’s the year of the tiger, but I don’t know if that’s a coincidence or not.
There’s a lot more links piling up, but, unfortunately I’m quite busy till the end of this month.
This week’s video is a demo a game called Sky Siege (link to appstore) that will set you back $3. I think that’s the best looking pseudo-AR game we have seen yet, too bad its website looks like it was built for geocities.
Happy year of the tiger and valentine to all our readers!
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