Posted on Sunday, 27th September 2009 by Mausay
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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Posted on Wednesday, 9th September 2009 by Mausay
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.
see: [...]
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Posted on Monday, 20th July 2009 by Mausay
I seemed to have forgotten to blog about this. But it was the buzz of this week: a fancy Augmented Reality business card:
The problem is, you’d have to visit a specific site to see the animation (which kinda takes away the use of the card). But the wow-factor still remains. Looks spiffy!
Combination of Papervision & [...]
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Posted on Monday, 20th July 2009 by Mausay
using Augmented Reality you can find your friends and family. Sounds a bit like Jamba? Well this one actually works:
iPhone 3GS Augmented Reality from Chris Hughes on Vimeo.
Check it out at: http://spazout.com/
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Posted on Saturday, 18th July 2009 by Mausay
Something I totally forgot to show and tell due to all the hussle and bussle of finishing up!
My conceptfilm I made on which I graduated on:
The idea behind this is, that Rotterdam Marketing asked me to offer visitors of Rotterdam an unforgetable experience of the city. With that I set out to find authentic Rotterdam [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 15th July 2009 by Mausay
Polar Rose is developing a face recognition app called TAT. You could point your mobile cam at a person in for example a meeting and get his business card, his last.fm info or maybe even his facebook account.
Not really groundbreaking, but I liked how he added the social networking sites to his concept.
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Posted on Wednesday, 15th July 2009 by Mausay
In a a followup to a recently posted conceptfilm of the World Series of Tubing, I found this interview actually showing how it works. Nice!
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Posted on Tuesday, 14th July 2009 by Mausay
Canon has showcased a head-mounted AR display that’s being used to simplify product design in the company. It will be available for use for the general public from next Saturday, too. Canon will be organizing an AR dinosaur exhibition [JP] in Chiba near Tokyo, and people can use the displays to view a number of computer-generated [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 14th July 2009 by Mausay
Sjees, it’s hard to actually keep posting when the need to document progress and news isn’t there anymore.
Anyways, small update on what’s new in AR-land!
Total Immersion created a Magic Mirror for the new Transformers movie. Pretty awesome! You could also record your voice and play it back robotized. Check: http://www.weareautobots.com/ww/index.php
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Posted on Thursday, 21st May 2009 by Mausay
Concept video to replace billboards with moving pictures.
The Artvertiser: Augmented Billboards. from Julian Oliver on Vimeo.
Pity you’d need this:
In order for it to work! :(
From: http://antiadvertisingagency.com/news/the-artvertiser
It’s a slow week, not many new stuff coming out. It’s hard to dig through my sources to seperate the actual new stuff from the stuff that’s allready been posted.
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