June 2009
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Augmented-reality Browsers
Augmented-reality browsers in development:
SPRXMobile Layar (Android)
IBM Seer (Android)
SREngine (iPhone)
Nokia’s Point & Find (Nokia)
Wikitude (Android)
Lastminute’s nru (Android)
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WatchMetaio’s unimaginatively named iPhone demos iLive and iPlay let you add 3D elements to still photos. The ‘AR’ aspect is that the objects are positioned in 3D space. I assume all it knows is the ground plane, calculated using the accelerometers rather than image analysis. Shown at Berlin Webinale 200.
(via augmented reality blog)
WatchIn my previous post last year I said that the Sekai camera appeared to be vapourware, largely because it appeared to be using natural feature recongition and tracking in scenarios where it did not look feasible.
This latest presentation clears it up a bit - the software isn’t using any image processing as far as I can see, it’s using the new iPhone’s digital compass to get...
Twittering Away →
Study shows Twitter as a one-to-many broadcast medium rather than peer-to-peer social network.
Interesting stats from the Harvard study of 300,000 users:
10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content, in contrast to typical online social networks where 10% of users generate 30% of the content;
The median number of lifetime tweets per user is one as half the users updated less...
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Watchlm2labs, providers of computer vision-based interactivity solutions, demo their flashy AR business card (via ifolio)
I can only see this really making sense if receivers of the business card have a mobile viewer (ideally already installed). Then the AR content is quickly and easily accessible. Otherwise, you need PC and Internet access to access the card’s extra content, at which point you...
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AR game coming to the DSi →
Looks like Ghostwire by A Different Game (winner of Nokia’s Game Innovation Challenge) is to become a real game… for the Nintendo DSi.
Future Lions Love AR →
AR-themed advertising concepts in the global student competition Future Lions. Includes personalised T-shirt AR tags with personal info, interactive Sushi Menu and Balloon AR tags amongst other interesting videos.
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USPS uses AR for … real? →
Practical use of FLARToolkit - see whether your items will virtually fit into their postal boxes! A rare use of AR where the known size of the marker is key to providing a virtual object at a correct real-world scale. (via Living in an Augmented Reality)