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Augmented Reality Year in Review – 2009
The year 2009 has been an important milestone in the development of augmented reality as an important future technology. While markers and marketing campaigns captured the early interest of the year, the bigger story was the porting of augmented r...
Whisper Deck: Voice Controlled Augmented Reality
Wonderful proof-of-concept integration of voice recognition, web search, and FLARToolkit on a Vuzix+ARCam HMD. Certainly makes me drool for a commercial see-through HMD with an iPhone/Android level of operating system. His system also points in ...
Junaio 1.5 is Now in the App Store
***Press Release*** junaio 1.5 is Now in the App Store; Enhanced Data Search and Overlay, New Social Capabilities, and Improved Usability December 21, 2009 – SAN FRANCISCO - junaio version 1.5 is now available in the App store with enhance...
10 Worst Uses of Augmented Reality in 2009
Tis the season to reflect and review the year that’s about the scuttle its caboose into 2010. It’s been a huge year for augmented reality after decades of R&D, finally hitting the public’s awareness. Unfortunately, not all a...
Trippy iPod Nano Augmented Reality Hack
In the future people won’t take drugs, they’ll augment their vision with a perception enabler. “Woah! I took my chrominance to the max!” “When I got to the party, it was like my inverse telecine had doubled the shaders...
Total Immersion – McDonald’s & Avatar Worldwide Promotion
Press Release WANT AN INTERGALACTIC EXPERIENCE WITH THOSE FRIES? MCDONALD’S ORDERS UP AUGMENTED REALITY FROM TOTAL IMMERSION, IN GLOBAL PROMOTION FOR FOX’S ‘AVATAR’ AR Experiences Connect Film and Filmgoers Worldwide, In Biggest Mas...
Total Immersion’s Ghost Hunting Experience
Mark Pine, the keynote speaker from Disney Imagineering at ISMAR09, gave the audience compelling reasons why truly interactive experiences are the future of entertainment and the one I remember most was: “It’s about connecting with the us...
Nexus One Will Take Augmented Reality To The Next Level
The details about the recently “dogfooded” smartphone from Google called the Nexus One have been surfacing more rapidly than a fart in the bathtub. For most the buzz centers around the Nexus One’s rumoured untethered bachelor life...
Augmented Reality Car System
Mobile computing devices are wonderful for bringing the world of information to our fingertips anywhere we go. Hurtling down the highway in one ton vehicles while trying to access our maps or find directions is not the safest way to drive. This v...
Augmented Reality App Review on AOTS
I have a confession to make: I watch AOTS (Attack of the Show) almost every day and not just for Olivia Munn. If you’re a hardcore gadget and game nerd like myself, this show is crack. Though I was excited to see them discuss augmented rea...
V2 Instituite for the Unstable Media AR Talk
Both Wikitude and Layar spoke at this Ecosystem event for augmented reality hosted by V2 Instituite for the Unstable Media and PortalToYourDreams. First half of the video has standard AR talking points, but after halfway point, I like the idea of s...
Look Silly with Augmented Reality
Gawd, I hope brain-computer interfaces become small and finite enough to handle our AR rigs. Otherwise we’re going to look like Village People groupies doing the YMCA to access our HUIs. ...
Junaio Opens its API to Developers
Press Release Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,Peter Meier, our CTO, officially announced the opening of junaio’s API to developers at the AR Development Camp last Saturday. Starting today, developers can use the new interface and build their own applicat...
Don’t Let Augmented Reality Steal Your Soul!
I’m a believer that most habits in excess are generally a bad thing, but do I really need to be warned about them? Slippery slope arguments are one of the lamest logical constructs used and the makers of this video flash a few AR, robotic, an...
8 Things That Are Possible With Google Goggles
Unless you’ve been sleeping under a pile of old Commodore 64s, you’ve heard about the Google Goggle announcement. The service allows you to use pictures to search the web. The service is amazing in its own right. Check out the video...
Are These Games Really AR Games?
Two new games from Slapdown Games tout themselves as using augmented reality. Are they really? The video shows the player taking a picture with a marker to establish the coordinate plane. After that it loads and the the game is played on tha...
GaTech DVFX’09 Augmented Reality Promos
The Digital Video Special Effects (DVFX) group at Georgia Tech has made a few promotion videos about augmented reality games made at the school. There’s no real augmented reality in these videos (besides the game of ARHrrrr!), but I got a chu...
10 Games That Could Be Made with Layar 3.0
The new Layar 3.0release brings more functionality to the reality browser. To help people envision what the service can do, Layar touts five new use-cases: Five Layar 3.0 Use-Cases 1) Architecture Showcase – Visualize the final building at a ...
More Augmented Reality Magic with Marco Tempest
Marco Tempest blew our collective augmented reality mind-space with his card trick video last spring. This time he pulls back the curtain and shows a little bit of the technology behind his projection AR magic tricks on the streets of Japan. ...
Layar 3.0 Publishing Site is Up
Interesting options contained within the Layar 3.0 release. Auto-trigger actions and POI-to-POI capability will help people make games and other products. I’d love to see a good cheesy choose-your-own-adventure using real places and Hitchh...
Twitter 360 – Augmented Reality App
The newly released Twitter 360 app is sure to make a big splash. The app allows you to see your friends tweets and also track them through your camera view or map view. As far as I know, this is the first iPhone app to utilize the geotagging feat...
Bamzooki – Augmented Reality TV Game Show
Robots battling it out for glory is nothing new. Augmented reality robots racing around real streets and battling on rooftops is so 2010. The BBC show, Bamzooki, is an augmented reality TV game show in which autonomous creatures called Zooks ar...
HMD Augmented Reality Display with Vuzix CamAR
A workable HMD augmented reality unit is a major step forward for the technology. Once a see-through model is available, we can break out of the “magic lens” smartphone. However, a see-through HMD is still a couple of years away and u...
Brief Video History of Augmented Reality
Nothing new for the initiated, but its a cute and pithy overview that gets points for presentation. Useful if you have a friend or family member that still doesn’t know what augmented reality is. ...
The Eye of the Machine
More video from Sensor Cast’s MobilHD system (see yesterday’s post for more details). MobilHD demonstrates the SPOT automatic object tracking system using a pan-tilt-zoom camera. Unlike simple motion detection, MobilHD employs sophistic...
Facial Recognition is the Future of Social Search
Nokia’s concept video shows what they think mobile computing will be in 2015. The list rounds out the usual suspects of future-tech: cloud computing, geolocative services, service-anywhere and facial recognition, to name a few. The last one...
Surveillance Society – A Lesson for the OGI
On the heels of my post yesterday about the Outernet Guidance Initiative and the perils of data harvesting, I find this bit of flotsam foaming out of the datasphere. Don’t be fooled by the lack of presentation fireworks or the bleary-eyed spe...
Thoughts on the Outernet Guidelines Initiative
Ori Inbar (@comogard) tweeted an offer to join the discussion on the Outernet Guidelines Initative. One particular point of their discussion piqued my interest and that’s the subject of privacy issues within the AR web (Outernet, ARNet, Digit...
Virtual Sandbox (Sim City Meets Augmented Reality)
A group of students at the National University of Singapore has developed an AR game similar to Sim City using VRML and ARToolKit. Virtual Sandbox is an educational software targeted at kids between the ages of 4-6. It provides children with an inte...
Interactive Entertainment using Augmented Reality
The use of augmented reality in our daily lives is still a few years away. The technology and business model hasn’t yet reached the point where it’s cheap enough for the masses. The entertainment business is a different story as they...
