IPhone Augmented Reality Apps Expected in September The dazzling new trend of "augmented reality" mobile applications, software that puts layers of information on top of a mobile device's camera viewer, is something that's left iPhone owners feeling out of luck. Now one company developing such an app says Apple has said the technology required will be officially enabled in the next version of the iPhone OS - which is expected out in September. Developers are able to access the necessary controls in the phone illicitly, but when Apple offers a stable and official Application Programming Interface (API) for layering data over the camera viewer - that's going to be game changing. The particular app in question is a subway route finder that shows route signs when you point your phone one direction or another. The list of possibilities is long, though, so we hope this September date is for real. The rumor was first unearthed on Friday by Mark Milian of the LA Times: We've written extensively about Augmented Reality before.
13 Tools for Building Your Own iPhone App This article has been updated. A more current list of tools can be found here: "30+ Tools for Building Mobile Apps." Please visit that page instead! These days, everyone wants to build their own iPhone applications, but not everyone knows how write the code necessary in order to create them. Fortunately, there are now a number of tools that allow non-developers the ability to create their own iPhone apps without knowing programming or scripting. Some are general-purpose app builders designed for small businesses while other target specific needs, like apps for musicians or for eBook authors. Below we've listed 13 different tools that let you create your own iPhone applications, none of which require knowledge of Objective C, the programming language used to build apps for the iPhone OS . 1. What it Does: Sweb Apps offers an online service which lets anyone build their own iPhone apps even if they don't know how to code. 2. Our coverage: This iPhone App Helps You Make iPhone Apps 3. 4. 5.
Augmented Reality: Here's Our Wishlist of Apps, What's On Yours? There's another dimension present, everywhere we go, that a growing number of technologists are working to uncover. These people aren't talking about theoretical physics or a magical world of fairies and gnomes - they're talking about information that could offer more context to traditionally physical lived experience. Augmented Reality (AR) is the phrase being used and this practice of making layers of data available on top of real world experiences could be a big one soon. Improvements in geolocation, bandwidth, mobile devices and APIs are the foundation of this feeling that a useful Augmented Reality may be more realistic today than ever before. AR isn't new, but it's been pretty hokey so far. Place Data The most common dreams for AR are probably concerning historical and other data about locations. How did this man make friends in the first place? Find My Keys or Car Shopping! Face Recognition and People Search The person next to you...is a zombie. Control-F For Offline Print
Open Letter to Apple: Let us Augment Reality with the iPhone! « A letter sent to Apple Developer Relations. Dear Apple, We are a collection of augmented reality (AR) enthusiasts and professionals (from business and academia), who have been working on a multitude of AR apps for the iPhone. These apps are poised to change the way people interact with the real world. But here is the rub: we are currently unable to publish these apps on the app store because the iPhone SDK lacks public APIs for manipulating live video. We are asking Apple to provide a public API to access live video in real time, on the iPhone. The impact of augmented reality (AR) on our lives could be as significant as the introduction of the PC. Looking back just a few years, AR pioneers had to hack a slew of components into ridiculously large backpacks and HUDs, and be confined to rigged environments. The battle to determine the winning device has already begun; a public API to access live video will give the iPhone a lucrative ticket to compete. Arf (Georgia Tech) ARghhhh (Georgia Tech)
A More Useful 404 Encountering 404 errors is not new. Often, developers provide custom 404 pages to make the experience a little less frustrating. However, for a custom 404 page to be truly useful, it should not only provide relevant information to the user, but should also provide immediate feedback to the developer so that, when possible, the problem can be fixed. To accomplish this, I developed a custom 404 page that can be adapted to the look and feel of the website it’s used on and uses server-side includes (SSI) to execute a Perl script that determines the cause of the 404 error and takes appropriate action. Overall design#section1 To provide useful and specific information to the user, it is necessary to define the possible causes of a 404 error. The user mistyped the URL or followed an out-of-date bookmark. In each of these cases, the 404 provides information about the specific cause of the error. Custom 404 page#section2 When an SSI directive such as this one: Enabling custom 404 pages#section3 then,
Augmented Reality Games Workshop approach Participants will design and construct a prototype of an Augmented Reality Game using the ARToolkit. Interaction between the virtual and the physical will be the focus of the games. The rules of the games are determined by the space programmed into the software, by the space accessible in reality, and by the creativity and persistence of the players. The morning sessions center on input from workshop trainers. Materials We'll be working with the ARToolkit. Explore the website. Basic 3d modelling will be done with Blender , the opensource 3D modelling suite. Trainers Julian Oliver - artist, free software developer, teacher, composer and media-theorist Has given numerous workshops and master classes in game-design, artistic game-development, virtual architecture, interface design, augmented reality and open source development practices worldwide. Klaas Kuitenbrouwer workshop designer, new media lecturer, and game designer for Oorbeek
RobotVision: A Bing-powered iPhone Augmented Reality Browser Bing Local Search has some interesting features you won't find in Google, so the prospect of seeing Bing listings appear on top of your iPhone's camera viewer when you point at a restaurant or business is intriguing. That's what forthcoming iPhone app RobotVision offers - and it displays a view of Tweets and Flickr photos published nearby wherever you are. RobotVision is a new Augmented Reality (AR) app for the iPhone 3Gs. It's not available yet, but it will be as soon as AR apps are formally welcomed into the App Store by Apple, probably sometime next month. AR browsers "turn the world inside out" by exposing latent online information about your surroundings; there will soon be enough of them that they will compete based on user experience. RobotVision was built by Portland, Oregon's Tim Sears, a developer at a major PR firm by day and a side-project innovator by night. Does that mean that AR browsers will be commodities? UX and AR Problems With RobotVision and AR Apps in General
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