Win an augmented reality CV makeover. Home » News , Technology , web If you have been job hunting recently, you’ll know that having a CV that stands out from the crowd is ultra important. It’s amazing how little time the recruiter spends reading your carefully crafted document. Honestly, If I get one more email about an urgent SAP programming role I’ll scream. David Wood, one the co-founders of Symbian recently teamed up with CWJobs.co.uk to create an awesome augmented reality CV. The only downside of course, is assuming the recruitment agent knows what to do with the marker. CWJobs.co.uk are giving away the opportunity to have an augmented reality CV make over, plus £500 of Amazon vouchers. Did you like this? Related posts you may like: Print Is Dead Long Live Augmented Reality Augmented Reality – Playing with your food Tron Augmented Reality Demo Create your own augmented reality music Video The Gorillaz – Plastic Beach Augmented Reality Campaign.
LookTel: Augmented reality for visually impaired. Tags: Augmented Reality | blindness | iVisit | LookTel | SeeScan | visually impaired | Ipplex, the holding company that serves as an umbrella company for iVisit, the video and mobile video company that works closely with the Wound Technology Network, has recently launched a new product, called LookTel for the visually impaired. LookTel, which used to be call SeeScan (see our original coverage from last year here) is an augmented reality scanning service that helps visually impaired and aging users to quickly detect and recognize specific objects, locations and more. Ipplex developed LookTel with NIH grants and in partnership with the Veterans Administration.
LookTel has also garnered support from visually impaired advocacy groups. For more on LookTel, be sure to watch this video demo: Mobile Augmented Reality Contact Lenses — MobileBeyond. MixAR: World’s First 3D Augmented Reality Editor for iPhone. Dinosaur fossils brought to life by technology exhibit. Pharma Can Leap Ahead with Augmented Reality. I’ve spent a lot of time explaining how pharma can catch up with what other industries are doing in digital. We’ve focused on some basic ideas and some more complex strategies that are all designed to get pharma to where other industries have been for years in digital and e-marketing. So, now it’s time for me to show you how pharma can leap ahead. We’re beyond iPhone apps (which we’ve already covered) and other now mainstream technology. We’re onto something that just a couple of industries have only dabbled in.
I’m going to demonstrate this today not so that pharma can simply try something new, but because I think it has a genuine purpose in healthcare that’s lacking in other industries. I’m talking about Augmented Reality. What is Augmented Reality? Pretty cool, eh? But I do have something more, a way pharma can use this to market its products and educate patients and physicians. Granted, the augmented reality demo on a desktop computer is pretty cool. What’s Jim to do? How Augmented Reality Helps Doctors Save Lives. I'm in Santa Clara, California this week attending (and speaking) at the Augmented Reality Event - a conference focused on the business of AR that has experts from across the world gathered to share their ideas.
While at the event, my goal has been to hunt down innovative and unique real-world practical applications for augmented reality in order to shed light on the usefulness of the technology. According to Dr. Michael Aratow, augmented reality is playing a huge role in the medical field, and some of his examples of medical AR were fascinating. According to Aratow, Chief Information Officer for San Mateo Health Services, AR has been used in the medical field for nearly ten years. For a long time, AR lived on high-tech levels, and producing products that leveraged it required advanced computing technology only available to large corporations. This is why a lot of early AR development existed in large manufacturing companies, such as auto and aircraft makers. Urban Games, Storytelling with Augmented Reality, The Big ARNY, and “Inside AR:” Talking with Thomas Alt, Metaio Today Metaio is holding Inside AR in Munich, Germany. Metaio (the picture above shows Metaio co-founders Thomas Alt and Peter Meier), is behind some of the best known commercial and industrial AR experiences of recent years.
But as important as the many AR projects they have executed are the AR tools that Metaio has made available to developers. Metaio’s AR products and tools have played an important role in bringing AR to a wider public, and given many developers the opportunity to explore AR. Inside AR is a great opportunity to see what these AR pioneers will be up to in the coming months. The Fall season is always jam packed with great events, and I wish I could be in two places at once. Meanwhile, I am missing Inside AR, which had some great speakers lined up, including fellow New Yorker, John Swords, partner and Ringleader at Circ.us. “Games allow us to see each other, for a moment, in a way that living in a city prevents” – Kevin Slavin Interview with Thomas Alt Thomas Alt: exactly… Augmented Reality Business Going Global | h+ Magazine. R.U. Sirius As little as a year ago, you’d have been forgiven if you were unfamiliar with augmented reality. Since then, the media has been wondering if AR is the next big thing, and the technology has caught the interest of businesses and technophiles everywhere.
ARE2010 (Augmented Reality Event) is the first global event reflecting the rise of the business of AR. The event is taking place on June 2-3 in Santa Clara, California. Keynote speakers include SF writer and social critic Bruce Sterling and famous game creator Will Wright (Sim City, Spore). I interviewed Ori Inbar and Tish Shute — two of the main organizers of ARE2010 — via email.
Ori Inbar is the founder of Ogmento, President of the Augmented Reality Consortium, and the host/author of Games Alfresco, a blog that is, as Ori says, “in pursuit of the ultimate augmented reality game” and that has “become a hub for worldwide AR enthusiasts looking for the best of the best in augmented reality.”
“scary, because these motivators work. Augmented reality atlas. The Augmented Reality Event 2010: "Seeing" - Keynote by Jesse Schell. Urban Augmented Realities and Social Augmentations that Matter: Talking with Bruce Sterling, Part 2 Social Augmented Experiences leveraging geoawareness and human and machine intelligence to create real time information brokerages, combined with an augmented reality view, can create a new opportunities to reimagine our relationships with each other and our environment.
This Summer, I have been on a blogging hiatus, which has meant I haven’t been sharing as frequently and, unfortunately, the second half of two conversations I had earlier this year, both of which have much influence my thinking on social augmented reality, have languished in private mode - part 2 of my talk with Bruce Sterling (see Interview with Bruce Sterling, Part I: At the 9am of the Augmented Reality Industry, are2010, and part 2 of my conversation with Anselm Hook - Visual Search, Augmented Reality and a Social Commons for the Physical World Platform: Interview with Anselm Hook, Part 1. Time to get caught up on some blogging! Augmented Reality and Real Time Information Brokerages click to enlarge slide.
Layar: Augmenting Reality via Smartphone. The Dutch startup is a pioneer in the emerging field of augmented reality, which delivers location-based multimedia information and ads to users' phone screens Curious to know what the Roman Colosseum looked like when it was first built? Soon you'll be able to stand in front of today's remnants, point your mobile-phone camera at the edifice, and see an interactive 3D reconstruction on your phone's screen. Same for the demolished Berlin Wall: Take a shot of the Brandenburg Gate and presto, you're whisked back to 1989 with an ugly concrete barricade blocking your view. These technological marvels are the handiwork of a Dutch company called Layar, whose specialty is an emerging medium known as augmented reality. Layar was started in 2009 by three young Dutch entrepreneurs: Claire Boonstra, Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, and Raimo van der Klein.
Layar technology can even help save lives. Top 15 Augmented Reality iPhone Apps. Photo via Jaymi HeimbuchAugmented reality is here. If you're unsure of what that is, think of the Terminator movies when they showed you what it was like to look at the world through the robot's eyes, and all the data about whatever he was looking at popped up over the image.
It's a tool that we really love around here because it can be used for so many green purposes. Already becoming widely useful for navigating public transportation, it can grow up to be the way we spot green restaurants and stores, learn more about the flora and fauna around us, and even sort through products on the shelves to find the most environmentally friendly options. The possibilities seem vast, and already there are some cool AR apps to try out. While not specifically green, these apps are moving us in the right direction. Finding Places Layar The king of AR right now is Layar. RobotVision Robotvision uses Bing local search to guide you through your surroundings. Bionic Eye WorkSnug Going Places London Tube Peaks. The Big Idea - Augmented Reality. The Big Idea Art and photos: Oliver Uberti, NGM Staff Revealed World Imagine bubbles floating before your eyes, filled with cool info about stuff you see on the street.
Science fiction? You could call it reality 1.0—the unvarnished world presented to us by our five senses. Early forms of AR have already arrived. [ KEIICHI MATSUDA ] The world's first mobile Augmented Reality Special Magazine Edition. Within a few years it will be common to use a mobile phone to interact with magazines in order to gain access to exclusive content. To give us a glimpse on what the future holds, Metaio has been working hard with SZ Magazine to give their readers an augmented reality experience they’ll never forget.
Tomorrow, over 550,000 households in Germany will get the latest edition of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung`s supplement magazine, which when viewed with Metaio’s junaio browser (available free for Android and iPhone) will reveal special content. What makes this project unique is it’s not just the cover or a few pages, but the entire magazine has been devoted to augmented reality. The cover of the magazine shows Sandra Maischberger, the well known TV personality, hiding behind her raised hands. When viewed through the smartphone`s camera, however, the popular TV host appears smiling cheerfully at the viewer. Dr. App Smart - Seeing the World Through Phone Apps Like Goggles and Layar. Augmented reality taken to the extreme. Here's the first step to augmented reality on the iPhone. How Augmented Reality Helps Doctors Save Lives. I'm in Santa Clara, California this week attending (and speaking) at the Augmented Reality Event - a conference focused on the business of AR that has experts from across the world gathered to share their ideas.
While at the event, my goal has been to hunt down innovative and unique real-world practical applications for augmented reality in order to shed light on the usefulness of the technology. According to Dr. Michael Aratow, augmented reality is playing a huge role in the medical field, and some of his examples of medical AR were fascinating. According to Aratow, Chief Information Officer for San Mateo Health Services, AR has been used in the medical field for nearly ten years. For a long time, AR lived on high-tech levels, and producing products that leveraged it required advanced computing technology only available to large corporations.
These visualizations can also extremely useful tools for educating both students and children about medicine. Interview: Layar, augmented reality and wireless healthcare. If your smartphone has a compass built-in, a camera and GPS, then it may soon offer “augmented reality” applications, which overlay information onto the phone’s screen while the camera is being pointed at a particular object or location.
A Wikipedia article may pop up if the phone is pointed at the Washington Monument. A link to a person’s Facebook page may appear when the phone’s camera is pointed at a friend. These are the more talked about applications coming out of this mobile-powered, emerging industry known as “AR”. Augmented Reality was recently pegged as the next big trend to hype in the tech industry. The publication that made the claim, ReadWriteWeb, is likely right, but their article closed with a sobering quote from the chairman of the AR Consortium, Robert Rice, which helps to put the emerging industry in perspective: “Don’t be misguided by the gimmicky marketing applications now.
Look ahead, and pay attention to what the visionaries are talking about right now,” Rice said. Still don’t get the mHealth opportunity in Mobile Augmented Reality? « 3G Doctor Blog.