Scout Portable Pedestrian Navigation Device by Matt Marrocco » Y Rip Your Environment Apart Augmented reality! That’s what we’re dealing with here. This right here is the “Scout – Portable Pedestrian Navigation Device” and it’s intended to be used by people traveling about, connecting then with local knowledge, wisdom, and GPS information to guide them. It’s a digital compass is what it is. Can you imagine the games you could play with this lovely little thing? The Scout has a screen, a camera, and a scroll wheel click button. Lemme know what you think about that. Another interesting thing is the information Matt Marrocco has given us! Do you agree with giving up your tools along with the design? Very big questions in this very simple design. Designer: Matt Marrocco
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Devs Hack iPhone API for True Augmented Reality An international team of computer scientists has created software that lets anyone perform on-the-fly analysis of live streaming video on the iPhone. Used alongside existing methods of displaying data on top of the camera's view, this new functionality signals a fundamental change in the kinds of Augmented Reality (AR) that iPhone developers can create. Existing AR apps, like Yelp, Layar, Wikitude and others display data on top of a camera's view but don't actually analyze what the camera sees. This new development changes that. The iPhone has a private API for analysis of live-streaming video but developers' requests that it be made accessible haven't been granted by Apple. The Visual Media Lab at Ben Gurion University in collaboration with HIT Lab NZ wrote the code in question and unveiled it along with video demonstrations at the AR-specialist blog Games Alfresco today. This is of course just one use-case. How will Apple respond? The possibilities here are huge.
How Would You Like Your Own, Personal iPhone App? From InfoMedia, the makers of iFart (an odd reference point, I know, but they obviously know something about creating a popular iPhone app) comes an interesting concept. CEO of InfoMedia Joel Comm claims that the iPhone applications platform is ripe for personal, branded applications which will help users stay in touch with your persona or company. As an example, Joel has created his own, personal application which can be found in the App Store. They've taken the concept a step further, however, allowing everyone to create their own personal app without any effort or programming knowledge. The idea is explained in detail over at www.mobilesyndicationservice.com, and although pricing plans aren't available yet (InfoMedia claims they will be available mid January 2009), you can already apply for your personal app. The actual application consists of a branded splash screen with a message of the day. Interested in more iPhone resources?
10 Amazing Augmented Reality iPhone Apps While Lawnmower Man may have led us to believe the future was a virtual one, it seems that in fact augmented reality (the overlaying of digital data on the real world) is where we're headed. A buzz technology right now, augmented reality apps are quickly gaining momentum on the iPhone. So to add to the quick overview of six AR apps we brought you earlier, we sort the digital wheat from the pixellated chaff to bring you ten AR apps for the iPhone that vary from functional, to educational, to just plain fun. 1. Le Bar Guide Although the wisdom of getting drunk people to wave their iPhones around on today's mean streets is questionable, if you drink responsibly, as this Stella Artois-backed app urges you to, this could be a handy tool. 2. Another corporate-backed app, this time by Plantronics, is WorkSnug, an iPhone app that finds digital nomads a place to lay their weary laptop. 3. This star map app will spell out the stars, planets and constellations for you. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. iPew
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The Wall Has Fallen: 3 Augmented Reality Apps Now Live in iPhone First Paris Metro, then Yelp, now London Buses. The newest is even selling database layers through in-app purchases. It has been widely reported that the API required to display Augmented Reality (AR) layers of data on top of the camera view of a non-jailbroken iPhone 3Gs would not be publicly exposed until the launch of the next version of the iPhone Operating System, expected this Fall. Many developers are patiently waiting, but some have now found a way around the restriction. We just received word of the 3rd AR-enabled app hitting the iTunes store. Earlier this week we reported on Paris Metro Subway as being apparently the first AR-enabled app to be accepted into iTunes. The London Bus app is even selling data sets through in-app purchases. It is now possible to add new Point of Interest (POI) databases to London Bus application via in-app purchase. This AR economy is moving faster than we expected. Can Apple now fairly deny other apps that seek to bring AR to the iPhone?
Jailbreak + Unlock - Page - iPhoneFreakz This is a no nonsense guide to start jailbreaking and unlocking your iPhone. For this tutorial i’m using iLiberty+ and i must say that this app is really the best that i’ve used so far. I’ll show you a exact howto. 1) Download the latest version of iLiberty+ from here. 2) Install the app and run it after the installation. 3) On the opening screen, enable the Jailbreak, Activate, Youtube fix, Unlock, Downgrade bootloader and Cydia. 4) click on Advanced. and then on Available on repo. [ad#inblog] 5) Click on refresh to load all the app’s (payload) from the REPO. 6) Activate the following. - Appsupport patch for 1.1.2- 1.1.4 - Bootneuter - BSD Subsystem - Fix mobile folder permission - Installer (very important !! - International Support for iPhone 1.1.4 - OpenSSH - Relocate Fonts and Ringtones 7) clik on the download button to prepare your payloads. 8) Now click on local payloads. 9) Now go back to the standard tap. 11) Click on the Go For IT button. 13) Now watch the screen of your iPhone.
Layar 3.0 augmented reality böngésző Androidra most már 3D támog (1 szavazat, átlag: 5.00 / 5) Loading ... Korábbán már beszámoltunk arról, hogy a Layar Androidra fejlesztette ki elsőként augmented reality (AR) avagy kibővített valóság böngészőjét. Szeptemberben a Layar még csak próbálgatta a 3D-s funkciókat a böngészőjében, mostanra viszont úgy tűnik, hogy a tesztelések sikeresen lezajlottak és a most megjelent Layar 3.0 már rendelkezik e 3D-s képességekkel, melynek kifejlesztéséhez az OpenGL szabványt használták. Néhány új funckió, melyek megtalálhatók a Layar 3.0 böngészőben: 3D-s elemek integrálásának lehetőségekorlátlan POI típus felvételének lehetőségeúj szűrési feltételekhelyi rétegek megadása és kereséseflexibilis rádiusz korlátlan POI megjelenítésseltovábbfejlesztett rétegellenőrzés és automatikus támogatás a régebbi kliensekkel
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. 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? Layar, Wikitude, Yelp, PresseLite, AcrossAir - the Augmented Reality market is heating up fast and there's not even official support for AR on the iPhone yet. What is Sears bringing to market product-wise to try to differentiate? RobotVision's options to view local Tweets and Flickr photos bring more richness to the places you're looking at. UX and AR
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 rumor was first unearthed on Friday by Mark Milian of the LA Times: Apple told Acrossair, developer of the Nearest Tube train finder, that the app will be approved for distribution after Apple releases version 3.1 of the iPhone software, which the developer expects will land in early September. We've written extensively about Augmented Reality before.
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)