Augmented reality NASA X38 display showing video map overlays including runways and obstacles during flight test in 2000. Augmented reality (AR) is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality, in which a view of reality is modified (possibly even diminished rather than augmented) by a computer. As a result, the technology functions by enhancing one’s current perception of reality.[1] By contrast, virtual reality replaces the real world with a simulated one.[2][3] Augmentation is conventionally in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements, such as sports scores on TV during a match. Technology[edit] Hardware[edit] Hardware components for augmented reality are: processor, display, sensors and input devices. Display[edit] Head-mounted[edit] Eyeglasses[edit] HUD[edit] EyeTap[edit]
Soviet Maskirovko Published Airpower Journal - Spring 1988DISTRIBUTION A: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. Charles L. Smith IN developing the scenario for a NATO-Soviet conflict used in Red Storm Rising, Tom Clancy placed a great deal of emphasis on Soviet maskirovka.1 Maskirovka is frequently mentioned in passing in many other novels, articles, and monographs dealing with the USSR. Terminology In studying the USSR, most Westerners are faced immediately with several problems. Another major problem is that Russian terms are not always easily translated into English. Another example is the selection of decoys, dummies, or models for the Russian use of false objects. Maskirovka is actually a very broad concept that encompasses many English terms. This concept, because of the Soviet "mind-set," permeates the entire nation. Implementation Due to its complex nature, the concept of maskirovka is incompletely understood in the West. Forms Concealment. Imitation. Simulation. Disinformation. 1.
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
Pandemic (board game) Pandemic is a cooperative board game designed by Matt Leacock and published by Z-Man Games in 2008. Pandemic is based on the premise that four diseases have broken out in the world, each threatening to wipe out a region. The game accommodates 2 to 4 players, each playing one of five possible specialists: (dispatcher, medic, scientist, researcher or operations expert). The game is unlike most boardgames as the gameplay is cooperative, rather than competitive. The goal of Pandemic is for the players, in their randomly selected roles, to work cooperatively to stop the spread of four diseases and cure them before a pandemic occurs.[2] Pandemic setup consists of a game board representing a network between cities on the map of the Earth, two decks of cards (Player cards and Infection cards), four colors of cubes (each representing a different disease), six Research Stations, and a pawn for each player. Movement, as per the following four options: The game is over if any of the following occur:
Augmented reality: it's like real life, but better | Technology | The Observer Don't act too surprised if, some time in the next year, you meet someone who explains that their business card isn't just a card; it's an augmented reality business card. You can see a collection and, at visualcard.me, you can even design your own, by adding a special marker to your card, which, once put in front of a webcam linked to the internet, will show not only your contact details but also a video or sound clip. Or pretty much anything you want. It's not just business cards. Augmented reality – AR, as it has quickly become known – has only recently become a phrase that trips easily off technologists' lips; yet we've been seeing versions of it for quite some time. Sports coverage on TV has been doing it for years: slow-motion could be described as a form of augmented reality, since it gives you the chance to examine what happened in a situation more carefully. But those required huge systems. Or maybe it wouldn't need to know where it is; only who it's looking at.
String launches with ‘fast, powerful’ augmented reality platform for iOS A new augmented reality startup launches today. String Augmented Reality claims to be a fast and powerful augmented reality technology for iOS. String claims to be capable of live two-way broadcast AR capabilities using Kinect, something they developed with Norwegian company Labrat. An application for this might be watching a live concert projected into your living room, in full 3D augmented reality. CEO and founder Alan Maxwell says the company is releasing an SDK for developers today (a developer licence is £79). Examples include 3D real-life motion capture AR, developed in partnership with Brighton-based Digicave. It will be interesting to see how this app performs against Layar, seen by some as the market leader in the platform AR space. Developed by privately held String Labs, the company has already released an AR Showcase app for iOS here. 3D Drawing in Augmented Reality from String on Vimeo.
News and Events - Press Releases - Qualcomm Announces Winners of the 2010 Augmented Reality Developer Challenge SAN DIEGO – February 15, 2011 – Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced the winners of its 2010 Augmented Reality (AR) Developer Challenge. The top prize of $125,000 was awarded to a team of two developers from Lithuania, Paulius Liekis and Arminas Didžiokas for Paparazzi. Second prize of $50,000 was awarded to Defiant Development Pty Ltd. for Inch High Stunt Guy. Third prize of $25,000 was awarded to five graduate students at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts for their submission, Danger Copter. “Qualcomm congratulates the winners and all the developers that provided submissions,” said Jay Wright, director of business development at Qualcomm. Winning Applications 1st Place – $125,000 – Paparazzi by Paulius Liekis and Arminas Didžiokas (Lithuania) An interactive game where the player becomes a virtual paparazzo and sneaks pictures of a vain celebrity before he gets agitated and attacks the photographer