The Real Future of Augmented Reality: SixthSense Demo at TED. See Through Walls With Wimbledon iPhone App. Imagining an augmented reality future that's not an advertising hell. 3D Hologram ON your iPhone. More AR Madness. For More on The Augmented Reality Scene. Augmented reality and the ultimate user manual. Most user manuals are worthless.
They’re chock full of poorly written text and confusing diagrams. Worse still, the gap between problem and solution is vast because we’re forced to apply a linear format (a guide) to a specific question. Where’s a search box when you need it? But here’s an idea: What if instead of leafing through pages or scrolling through an online manual, you could simply see your way through a task?
Just slide on a headset and work your way through a bit of customized, augmented-reality education. That’s what Columbia University computer science professor Steve Feiner and Ph.D. candidate Steve Henderson are trying to do with their Augmented Reality for Maintenance and Repair (ARMAR) project. In the following Q&A, Feiner and Henderson discuss the genesis of ARMAR and its practical applications.
Mac Slocum: What inspired ARMAR? This work dates back to 1991, when we began work on KARMA (Knowledge-Based Augmented Reality for Maintenance Assistance). Steve Henderson: Yes. Vision Based Augmented Reality (AR) in Smart Phones – Qualcomm’s AR SDK: Interview with Jay Wright Recently, Qualcomm announced an SDK for vision based augmented reality – currently in private beta and open to the public this fall.
The Qualcomm augmented reality (AR) bonanza will launch with a $200,000 developer challenge and a SDK that will put vision based augmented reality into the hands of developers without licensing fees. This is a big step forward for augmented reality and a very important move made by an industry giant to support the rapidly evolving AR industry. Innovation at all levels of the AR stack, particularly at the hardware level (CPU/GPU optimization) is vital for the full vision of augmented reality – media tightly registered to physical space, to take center stage.
Vision based AR takes mobile AR beyond compass/GPS based AR post-its, which are only loosely connected to the world (but the staple of most current AR apps), towards the holy grail of AR – markerless tracking with the whole world as the platform. Tish Shute: Yes. Even More Augmented Reality Business Cards. Augmented Reality Built On Real-Time Video Recognition.
AR Wave at Where 2.0: Exploring Social Augmented Experiences Real-Time 3D Modeling for Augmented Reality. I’m a big geek when it comes to the behind-the-scenes number crunching stuff that makes augmented reality happen.
How it all works is a fascinating look at dynamic systems in concert. The two videos below show how on the fly modeling of objects can help create a fully interactive world with occlusion, shadows and other 3D illusions needed to created reality out of pixels. The first comes from the Australian Center for Visual Technologies (ACVT) with a program called Jiim. It allows in-situ modeling of the enviroment by picking up points and then allowing the user, in real-time, to draw in the world with those points as reference. The resulting physics demonstration is quite impressive from throwing balls to killing moles.
The second video shows use of the MRToolKit to model a Chinese dragon figure in real-time and then interact with it. Like this: Like Loading... Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: | AR Games, augmented reality, Jiim, Metaio, MRToolkit. 8 Fun Ways to Use the GM Augmented Reality Windshield. Posted on March 18, 2010 by thomaskcarpenter You’ve probably already seen the video below about GM’s initiative to put an augmented reality HUD on future windshields because its been posted on many sites.
The product, as explained, would improve safety in limited vision situations and create useful information for the viewer. 10 Cool Things Going On Right Now in Augmented Reality. Augmented reality has come a long way in a years time.
Last year I got excited by research projects and gimmicky AR webcam advertising, but that quickly faded on the tenth plus iteration. It wasn’t until July that we starting having real AR products in the form of apps. Nearly a year later and still early in the development of the AR ecosystem, we’re seeing a more diverse use of the technology and that has me excited again. So I want to take a moment to go over ten cool things going on right now in augmented reality. 1. Wikitude, Layar, Tonchidot, Junaio, TagWhat and others hope to be the standard for the AR browser market. 2. Using an Eye-Trek video headset, the guy at Tailormadetoys made a pair of AR glasses. 3. The specs on this Ouidoo QderoPateo smartphone are in the WTF!? While I’m not completely believing the hype, and it could end up being vaporware, it certainly looks promising. 4. Bionic eyes and augmented reality. Eyeborg’s New AR shirt in action! 6. 7. iPhone OS4.0.