March 2010
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Mobile Augmented Reality Revenue Streams →
The report distinguishes four kinds of users, namely the Corporations, Small Businesses, Public Services and the End Users. For all the four users there are revenue streams that can be tapped into when the applications are developed. It’s more of a overview paper of the current state of AR revenue steams, leaving many questions remaining to be answered. There’s an emphasis on...
Mar 22nd
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Augmented Citizen - an interesting set of slides from Dan Romescu and Willi Schroll at the recent Mobile Augmented Reality Summit  @ MWC2010 Q: Isn‘t AR just a new mode how to display information? A: Yes, but this in fact means to change the mode of interaction with the world, your physical and social reality. (more at future facts blog)
Mar 19th
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High-tech AR uses UV LASERs to excite (normally transparent) red and green phosphorous embedded in car windscreen. Multiple sensors and cameras track the environment and the driver’s gaze (not sure if it tracks eye gaze). The technology by GM, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California won’t be available before 2018. (via Technology Review)
Mar 19th
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“Wanted: Game Designers to build Augmented Reality Games!”
– Ori Inbar, in his Games Alfresco post Live from GDC: Augmented Reality at the Game Developers Conference – by the Numbers In summary, on progress on AR at GDC: “Augmented Reality made progress in mind share – but not yet in real impact on the game industry.”
Mar 15th
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ARGO – Learn Go with AR →
With neat use of Go stones for the options selections. I’d like to see this as a AR-based mobile app.
Mar 8th
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Pawan Sinha on how brains learn to see. Scientific research and humanitarian work at the Prakash project has identified motion as being key to image segmentation. MIT are developing the ‘Dylan’ system based on these findings, which is a self-organising computational model that uses motion to perform object recognition. There is some information on research here, but the only pages...
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Google now owns location advertising • The... →
The US patent, which was filed in 2004 and awarded last week (and spotted by Venture Beat), covers “determining and/or using location information in an ad system”.
Mar 2nd