TwittAR and the evil brother strikes again

First of all, something on our own behalf. Since we got a lot of requests, augmented.org will now be twittering, too. It won’t be updates by the minute, but rather another channel for you to keep uptodate easily. So, please follow augmented.org on twitter if you are a fan of AR:

www.twitter.com/augmentedorg

Thanks.

Another thanks to all, who showed up at the Besser Online conference last weekend in Munich. We had a great panel with interesting questions regarding AR and location based services.

Evil Brother

Just las week I was blogging on Diminished Reality as another way to personalize your reality. Now, another video hit the air from the researchers at German Technology University Ilmenau. The project has been done by Jan Herling and Wolfgang Broll, both Department of Virtual Worlds / Digital Games. Be sure to watch the video below. For further information (in German) check their press release here.

The technology can serve extremely useful in Future scenarios. Simple idea would be to “clean up” your space to make room for another augmentation. If you wanted to buy a new couch using AR, you would end up with crummy graphics, if the new couch is smaller than the old one, so that it not completely covers the previous one (well, who buys a smaller couch??). We can imagine numerous fields of applications for movie productions or live broadcastings (remove brand names, license plates) and fun applications. If you have specific ideas, please share in the comments or at our Facebook site. I’d love to hear your ideas. Pretty practically speaking we could use it today to remove the black&white markers before augmenting the CG. :-)

If you are at ISMAR right now, be sure to check out the presentation.

Lots of more AR

If somebody of you speaks Japanese, please translate me the following on a new HMD! :-) The company DoCoMo shows a new prototype of a tiny HMD. Currently it only overlays images without a camera tracking. So far it’s too early for commercialization, though. Dang!

You’ve seen the MoMA guerilla art campaign, find out even more on new projects at Mark’s site! :-)

If you are looking for an IT job and want to augment your CV, now you can!

Do you want to shoot some UFOs? Now you can with your iphone! If you rather want to hunt monsters, go here!

Thomas found a nice red brick walled stage comedian show, where AR gets ripped on. Nice!

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