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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 […]

Okay, I have to admit, this is a bit unfair. I’m waiting for slim HMDs like all AR enthusiasts. But there will still be restrictions, speaking about field of view, still the need for a device stuck to your nose, that can slip and destroy the overlay-position, etc. But in a future, far, far away, we could be able to […]

Of course, that is the usual way: writers, artists and designers create ideas for a movie or a book and make their technological craziness come to life – they don’t have the restrictions the real world brings with its crummy physics and huge atoms. Anyway, I wanted to point you to a new computer game, that also comes along with […]

No technological surprises, but a well made and neat video about a – hopefully sooner than we think available – HMD setup concept by students from Valle Giulia in Italy hit the internet. Nice integration of magic book concepts and interaction techniques. It’s pretty cool and high quality. Check it out to dream a bit more about the future… :-)