Category: AR

Chris O’Shea contacted me and pointed me to their website, that documents a neat street art installation, using some augmented reality in the broader sense. Take a look for yourself: a big screen in the pedestrian zone of Liverpool (so far) that shows a live feed of the street. A digital mirror to see yourself from bird’s eye perspective. But […]

Just another short post on AR awareness! Meet the London AR community and check out the event Lester and the staff from augmentedplanet are organizing. They are putting together an augmented reality community event in London on November, 11th, for enthusiasts and to show off the latest cutting edge AR works. It’s going to be held in the evening and […]

Lee Brimelow from Adobe’s flash/flex/air department talks at Adobe’s Max 2009 about the usage of Flartoolkit and Papervision to create Flash Augmented Reality applications. So if you are interested in Flash AR development, but somehow never understood the workflow or how the matrix convertion works or just feel like watching a 60 minutes video on this topic, go ahead and […]

Just a short one – while waiting for the ISMAR 2009 I recommend looking around at some work thats out there: E.g. a new AR browser will hit the marketplace from Apple, allowing once more the overlay of wikipedia entries, cyclopedia. Nothing fancy new to see, though. But I hope that it will one day be as easy as this […]

Yesterday metaio held their annual fair to show us their new developments and technologies live and interactively with the biggest fair they set up so far. 200 registered AR enthusiasts stormed their bright new offices to be overwhelmed with marker symbols, markeless tracking, applications, concepts and hardware presentations. I consider the day at their headquarters a big success and a […]

Another short update on a fun application from ydreams comes to your desktop for free: look at your screen as if it where a mirror (virtual mirror) and see floating birds chirping your twitter feeds out. Move them away through gestures and enjoy. Gestures feel more like a bit chaotic PlayStation-EyeToy-waving and I don’t see added value for twitter besides […]

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 […]

With the rise of AR browsers for smartphones and other devices, the need or the advantage of standards rises as well. A nice move was made by Mobilizy, proposing an extension to the KML file format, tagging geo data. You can read their press release here and check out the fresh website for the eventually available and open standard for […]

Hi there, I was unhooked from the computer world for the last ten days (it still works without!), so I’m getting back on AR right now. Currently, I’m still hoping that my company will approve my travel to ISMAR 09, where I’m invited to hold a talk about AR in the industry. Unfortunately I’m lead on another VR project here […]

Please take a look at the fresh AR video, created by Nokia, that just went online. It is a pretty high quality production (well, it’s Nokia!), comparable to Microsoft’s interaction vision video. The video shows mixed reality (projection onto your living room, i.e. here the window) and AR goggles with gaze and finger gesture interaction. Unfortunately it’s not a near […]