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Archive for September, 2009

Hello, I’m a Layar. And I’m a … Junaio?

After all the love Layar has been getting one has to wonder, should one company stand at the top? I think not!
Legendary AR developer Metaio will launch Junaio on the 2nd of November. And it will be initially for the iPhone, and later for Android and Symbian. This is vice versa to how Layar started, [...]

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AR in Michael Jackson’s Opus Book

I can’t seem to find any truly groundbreaking developments in AR-world. It all seems to still be markers and Layar-clones nowamonths.
Still, to break my radiosilence:
A publisher released an Opus about Michael Jackson. In this book they added markers which will play videoclips on their site www.michaeljacksonopus.com

I kinda liked this one because it’s not really the [...]

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Nokia’s conceptfilm: Nokia World

Nokia released a pretty neat, high-quality conceptfilm about their ideal augmented reality-world on Youtube.
In my humble opinion, Nokia seems to be delivering the best concepts.
Sure these might not see actual daylight within the next 5 or 10 years. But I do feel Nokia is the company which has the best knowhow. Both technically and aesthetically.
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