Bummer

Dear AR-Community,

two bad news for AR and me floating in today.

First, Gamaray announced to stop developing their 3D-AR-Android-Browser. Due to the hard competition, e.g. Layar3D and the missing USP for gamaray now, they don’t see much use in putting effort into their technology. I hope, that Clayton Lilly and his team will have success with their other Android projects and maybe they will get back to AR one day? All the best.

Secondly, my company RTT is finally not willing to send me to the ISMAR to have an industry talk about our experiences and use cases and customer hopes. I consider this fair the biggest chance and melting pot for this great technology, that apparently left all its teething troubles a while ago. For me, there is such a great emerging field, where we can greatly contribute with our close-to-realism renderings at RTT, combined with AR. But tell that to the budget guys… a hard struggle. I’ts a shame and I’m fairly disappointed not to be able to share our ideas with you vis-a-vis for now. I’ll be online 24/7 watching all notes and snippets, Ori, Thomas and others will drop. Be sure to check out Thomas’ industry talk at ISMAR, though!

If your are in Munich on Sep, 28th, I’m sure we will meet at metaio’s fair and exchange AR thoughts there or drink an Oktoberfest beer afterwards. Looking forward to it.

Cheers!
– Tobias D. Kammann