Weekly Linkfest

Posted on June 14, 2009 by rouli

Well, we’ve got a dwindled bag of links today, after some very busy weeks:

If I’ve missed any linkfest worthy news-bit, feel free to comment.

This week’s video clip comes to us from Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht in the Netherlands, where students created a simcity like augmented reality game. If I read the google translation of this page correctly, the goal of the game is to show the benefits of working together and selling local agricultural products in a store along the highway.

Have a nice week!

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More Core Tools for Augmented Reality

Posted on May 14, 2009 by rouli

Last week Microsoft held an “Enabling Innovation Through Research” event at its Cambridge research labs, and demoed many of its projects. Core Tools for Augmented Reality was one of those projects, presnted by Simon Winder:

Well, there’s nothing in this video we haven’t seen before, to be precise, two months ago at Microsoft’s Techfest (click for my previous blog post). Even the same bubble oriented treasure hunt game was shown then. The technology itself is based purely on image recognition, using the same concepts behind Microsoft’s Photosynth. Some more details (but not too many) can be found on the project’s web page.

Via The Future Digital Life and Developement Memo for Ourselves.

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Weekly Linkfest

Posted on May 10, 2009 by rouli

This week top post at Games Alfresco was the always classic “Top 10 augmented reality demos that will revolutionize video games“, if you haven’t read it, do yourself a favor and take a look. Lagging far behind, the top post on Augmented Times was “Augmenting Deformable Surfaces“.

Here are some more AR related news from around the web:

  • If you can’t take augmented reality with you for a dive, you may bring augmented fish to your room, with this project from Canon.
  • I’ve missed that last week, but apparently, Microsoft hired interactive design firm INVIVIA to create videos for some group named “Volume Studios”. That group goal is to “explore in a poetic narrative way how certain developing technologies could begin to blend and augment our daily lives”. Check out two of the (rather bizarre) video at “i started something“.
  • Drawing in three dimensions, a futuristic design at Yanko Design.
  • If you always wanted to play an augmented reality game where your goal is to dip chicken nuggets, you need not look any further.
  • Wired is joining the AR fun.
  • It’s always great to see amateur programmers’ take on AR. This video combined augmented reality with emerging patterns, and I find it lovely

Quote of the week comes from this post at Locative Lab, describing the connection between horror movie “They Live” and the state of augmented reality:

“They Live” in my mind is the canonical, defining vision of what any sort of Augmented Reality should start with. Sort of presenting an “anti” world — the world made strange so that we see it in a different way. Reconstructed. No Pink Pony scenarios or anything that makes the engineer-accountants get eager, sweaty palms. Weird stuff to invert things and better see the alternative possibilities beyond way-finding, tour-guiding, and informatic overlays of measured data.

I don’t exactly agree with this position, but it is an interesting take on what should our augmented future look like.
And finally, to start off the next week with a good feeling, here’s an interesting project, bringing World of Warcraft multiplayer mini games to a desk near you. It’s nothing special, but looks very exciting (at least more exciting than playing the same games using a keyboard):

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