Tag Augmented Reality

SixthSense, a good reason to start wearing some markers

Pure genius, real future. Have a look at SixthSense, a MIT media lab project. Here is what a “wearable gestural interface” looks like. Pranav Mistry, inventor, wearing the markers. Quoting Pattie Maes, “he’s wearing simple marker caps, but if you want a more stylish version you can also paint your nails in different colors” (sorry […]

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Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop

That’s creepy: Minority Report meets a William Gibson’s dystopic future. House furnishing becomes a surface for the advertising industry, and despite/because of the social-flow-absorbing skills, our Robocop needs help by an encouraging virtual assistant to prepare a cup of tea. See the film, 1.46 min: Here’s some AR screenshots: A gestural tool to reduce advertising […]

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What the iPad means for augmented reality.

Well, nothing. πŸ˜₯ Great screen? check. Gps? check. Compass? check. mobile internet? check. Camera? fail. A game-changing lap sized computer without a camera? A back & front camera would have been great for AR applications. But wait. what about this? Ladies and Gentleman, at your left the new iPad, at your right Vuzix Wrap 920AR […]

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Oldies but goldies: GE Smart Grid AR

Yes, that’s pretty old, but it’s been one of the first mainstream applications of marker-based augmented reality. And an impressive one! See this teaser, thanks to the good folks at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners who did the Smart Grid campaign. And try it by yourself at the Smart Grid Website. Don’t forget to print out […]

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Four kinds of augmented reality

This term, “Augmented Reality”, is pretty vague. In fact it’s used for describing different approaches, and even things that with AR have little in common (the term “buzzword” comes in my mind very clearly). So we can think about it as A two-way communication between the virtual and the real world Our digital tools multiply […]

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AR? what we’re talking about?

Ronald Azuma (1997)Β  says that Augmented Reality: combines real and virtual is interactive in real time is registered in 3D Ok, enough academical b**hit. Here’s what we are dreaming about augmented reality since 1982: TRON!

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