Augmented ID: Augmented Reality Facial Recognition for Mobile As mobile phones continue to develop, the improvements to geolocation features, video capabilities, and processor speed combined with APIs from various web services are helping to make augmented reality the next big thing in mobile applications. On open platforms like Android, we’ve already seen amazing developments, including things like Layar, an augmented reality app that describes the world around you, and TwittARound, an app which shows you nearby tweets. But one of the items on our Augmented Reality wishlist – AU facial recognition – isn’t something we’ve seen come about just yet. It almost seems too futuristic to be real. And yet…here it is. How Augmented ID Works AugmentedID uses facial recognition and tracking technology from a company called Polar Rose, a photo tagging startup. Polar Rose performs facial recognition by matching 3D models of faces, one of the three methodologies for performing this task. Current Limitations and Future Possibilities But For Now…
softwear .: sermad :. » About I like to do nice work and have done it in some lovely places. BBDO - TBWA – Wieden + Kennedy – Glue London – Holler – Kerb Anything involving creative uses of interaction \ communication design be it on the internet \ physical interaction \ mobile – is really where my head is at. I am also a *massive* record nerd. I ran a record label from my bedroom for a few years…and i’ve been helping running a forum on records since 2000. View my profile on linkedin if you would like to connect. This blog is my voice and no way reflects my employer. If I come across as a bit rude it is because I am aware that the industry I work for doesn’t contribute much to society – filling peoples lives with poor work is such a waste. I’m British and currently live in New York.
saqoosha/FLARToolKit/en Spark project Wiki ナビゲーション (Japanese page) What is FLARToolKit ¶ AS3 ported version of ARToolKit. The license ¶ FLARToolKit is free to use for non-commercial applications under the GPL license. For more information about the conditions of the GNU General Public License, version 3, click here. Commercial Licence ¶ If you are interested in developing a commercial application or not releasing your FLARToolKit application source code then you should contact ARToolWorks (info@artoolworks.com) for a commercial license. Download ¶ Download Browse source code ¶ version 4.0.0-fp10 version 2.5.x version 1.x.x trunk Source code ¶ You can get latest source code with following command. How to use ¶ Import of FlashBuilder? Forum ¶ Examples ¶ Who made it?
David Wicks :: sansumbrella Scout Portable Pedestrian Navigation Device by Matt Marrocco » Y Rip Your Environment Apart Augmented reality! That’s what we’re dealing with here. 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 Jørn Knutsen - Designing and researching 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. 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
Einar Sneve Martinussen McFilter: About Me About Me It's long overdue really, especially given that I find such pages quite useful when I happen upon other blogs, so I figured it was time to add some "About me" info to McFilter. I live in Cambridge, England and write software for a living. I moved down here from the North-West to be one of the first few employees of a startup called STNC - we were first to put a web browser onto a mobile phone. When we were acquired by Microsoft, I wanted to get back to some coding, and so led the team writing the TCP/IP stack which has shipped on an assortment of devices including the Sony Z5 and the Amstrad em@ilers. In early 2001 I left Microsoft, and since then have been working for myself - some of the time doing contract work, and some of the time developing my own products. Web appsBloggingEmbedded/mobile developmentHome networkingUbiquitous computingMusicProject management or just management, particularly in small tech companies I'm also quite into my cars and listening to music. Ian
Chris Heathcote: anti-mega turn up and go · 18.03.14 Over 6 months ago, a question came to mind: how far could I get from London for a tenner? Or twenty quid? Where by going I generally mean by train. And at the weekend, as I’m working at an occupation requiring a fixed number of hours a day. Well, this is a hard problem. The kind of question you want to stick on a map. So – the answer is Brighton for a tenner, Peterborough for £20, and Liverpool for £50 (£41, actually). View the map on its own here. the trains bit (or: the stories you can tell from a visualisation like this) One thing to note about all of those fares is that they only apply for one train operator on the route – FCC for Brighton and Peterborough, and London Midland for Liverpool – in fact, there are £30 fares with some restrictions on Saturdays if you’re prepared to take the slower train to Liverpool (it’d be £79.70 on Virgin). So, competition seems to work. SouthEastern is relatively expensive compared to other operators in the South East. Anyway.
Pasta&Vinegar September 15th, 2012 | No Comments » Time for presenting summer project outcomes! In July and August, I spent two months in the Media Design Program department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. As I mentioned few weeks ago, the project was called CURIOUS RITUALS: Gestural Interaction in the Digital Everyday and focused on the postures, gestures and habits related to digital devices such as laptops, cell phones, remote-controls, sensors or robots. Along with Katherine Miyake , Nancy Kwon and Walton Chiu , we produced two things: (1) A book (.PDF, 3.1Mb) documenting current digital gestures (based on a preleminary field study in European cities and in Southern California, with essays from Dan Hill and Julian Bleecker), (2) A design fiction film that speculate about their evolution in the near future. I’ll post more material about the project in the next few weeks (approach, rationale, findings). September 6th, 2012 | Comments Off September 5th, 2012 | Comments Off
Matthew Chalmers I’m a Reader in Computer Science at the University of Glasgow, UK. My work borrows from philosophy, biology and other disciplines in order to feed into the design and theory of computer systems, especially mobile and ubiquitous computing. I lead the social/ubiquitous/mobile (SUM) group, and we work on theory, infrastructure and applications such as mobile multiplayer games and systems for health and fitness, for cultural tourism, and for ‘seamful’ awareness of the infrastructure one uses and may have ready-to-hand. My main projects are A Population Approach to Ubicomp Systems Design, an EPSRC programme that investigates a new treatment of software class as a varied and evolving population of instances, and EuroFIT, an EU FP7 project centred on using football fans’ club affiliation to encourage greater physical activity and less sedentary behaviour. Also, I’m always on the lookout for good PhD applications. My work email address is matthew.chalmers at glasgow.ac.uk.
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