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.
Augmented Reality & The Web: Present and Future Scenarios
Augmented Reality (AR) is when virtual graphics and/or data are overlaid onto real world objects. Many of you have seen this portrayed in movies such as Minority Report and The Matrix. It still seems a bit far fetched in 2009, yet there are apps that are beginning to make it a reality. One is Wikitude, an Android mobile app that mixes location imagery with information from Wikipedia. We first noticed it back in May 2008, when it was announced as one of the winners of the Android Developer Challenge. Wikitude is described on its website as "a mobile travel guide for the Android platform based on location-based Wikipedia and Qype content."
Augmented Vision and the Decade of Ubiquity - Future Vision - From the mind of Robert Rice
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo “The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything…” - Alan Kay The Past The concept of Augmented Reality has been around for a very long time, and not just in fiction.
Zugara’s Augmented Reality Dressing Room Is Great If You Don’t Care How Your Clothes Fit
Augmented reality, or the blending of the real world with computer graphics on the fly, is one of the most exciting fields in tech right now. Unfortunately, there haven’t been many practical uses of the technology — we’ve seen some very impressive video game peripherals and a few Terminator-style phone overlays from companies like Layar, Sekai Camera, and Seer Android, but these still have a ways to go before they’ll hit the mainstream. Zugara, an interactive marketing agency, has built something a bit more practical for the time being. It’s put together the Webcam Social Shopper, offering a way to help you try on clothes online from the comfort of your bedroom. At least, it lets you overlay a static image on top of your body and pretend you’re wearing it.
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.
Top 10 augmented reality demos that will revolutionize video gam
Augmented Reality (AR) has the potential to do something parents can’t: free gamers from their couches and usher them into the real world, to play. ***UPDATE***if you find this interesting – check out the recent post Top AR Games of All Time. Here is my countdown of the top 10 best AR demos poised to revolutionize video games: 10. Human Pac Man When Dr.
Prepare Yourselves: Augmented Reality Hype on the Rise
Augmented reality -- or the addition of a layer to the world before your eyes (aka the "real world") using technology -- is the next big tech trend. Already making its debut in everything from mobile apps to kids toys, "AR" will clearly soon be talked about by everyone the way they used to talk about "social media" and "Web 2.0" before that. While augmented reality has its uses -- although many of them just involve oohing and aahing at nifty apps -- this trend is already in danger of being over-hyped, even though it has barely gotten off the ground. AR Apps We've Seen So Far We've been fascinated by augmented reality for some time now, especially after we got wind of a new mobile application built for Google's Android platform called Layar. The app, an augmented reality browser, "layers" sets of data on top of your mobile phone's viewfinder as you point the camera at the city around you.
Augmented Reality: A Human Interface for Ambient Intelligence
Augmented reality (or AR) is fast becoming as ubiquitous a term as "Web 2.0." The field is getting noisier by the day, and AR as a field of research now has to co-exist with its status as an industry buzzword. Knowing the difference between the two is important. To do that, we have to examine the field and then revisit the buzzword you may have heard 10 years ago. What Is Augmented Reality?
Goodbye Virtual Reality, Hello Augmented Reality
inShare0 Credit: Wired If you haven’t yet heard about Augmented Reality or Web Squared, allow me to make a quick introduction. This is the next iteration of the Web and also desktop and mobile applications and is indicative of the future hybrid Web and device experience. And no, it’s not called Web 3.0.
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.
Layar Augmented Reality Browser Now World Wide on Android, iPhon
Layar, the jaw-dropping Dutch Augmented Reality browser we wrote about earlier this summer, announced today that it is now available worldwide on Android handsets. Hundreds of new data layers are available to view on top of your phone's camera viewer, from Wikipedia entries when you're looking at geographic points of interest to Trulia real estate listings that are viewable when you point your phone at homes for sale. Trulia says it only took about 3 hours to build its layer on the Layar data set, something that's very promising for the future of the platform. The program is now coming preinstalled on the Samsung Galaxy (i7500) in the Netherlands, and the company says the iPhone 3GS will be next.
RSS Augmented Reality Blog Feeds
[This is a narrative exploration of an idea @jingleyfish & I had walking around the Westside of Santa Cruz late at night...] Imagine walking around a town wearing your stylish Ray Ban augmented reality glasses (because hand-held mobile devices will become a significant limiting factor to experiencing the annotated world). You see small transparent white dots glowing on people and objects indicating that they contain accessible cloud content. Maybe you “select” (by whatever mechanism constitutes selection through a pair of eyeglasses) a bench on the sidewalk then view a flyout markup indicating that the bench was commissioned by the Bruce family in memorium of Aldis Bruce, manufactured by the Taiwanese Seating Concern. You click through the family link to see a brief bio of Aldis with a set of links to his life story, works, etc… In the upper corner of your view a light begins to blink indicating a new feed is available in your subscription list.
