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 [...]
I got told of something new in Youtube: 3D! This sparks some cool possibilities on combining Augmented Reality with the popular video-sharing website. If you have some 3D-glasses lying around I suggest you take a gander at: (look for the drop-down menu)
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.
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!
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
I’ve had a busy time with preparing my presention to show my progress to my teachers. So a lot of updates on the field of AR. First off: Eminem jumped on the bandwagon by letting us paint a big 3D rendition of theletter “E”: http://www.therelapse.co.uk/3dartcomp/#/elapse Papermotion by Total Immersion The latest project by Total [...]
Todd Vanderlin made some more fune examples of AR, including one where he uses a marker on a record to scratch digital music (did I posted that? Otherwise look in my Delicious..,). This one is a great example of co-creation in an interactive shopping window Carnival Interactive Aquarium from vanderlin on Vimeo.
Seems rather cool for TV! Pity that guy had to move to the way back, because all the digital imaginary is an overlay on top of the narrator. It would be perfect if he could walk between the players and literally point out when someone is offside or something… I think they’re onto something here, [...]