Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality World | 拡張現実と仮想現実の世界

クアルコムなど、新しいタイプのARのプラットフォームも現れ、これからが本格的な始まりといえる。今までは序盤戦だ。さあ、準備はいいかな？

In the 21st Century, there will be no question you have will go unanswered if the promise of augmented reality really comes true.  Your smartphone equipped with augmented reality will identify and describe in sound, images, and/or moving 3D objects anything, anywhere you point your smartphone camera at.  The real world will have become a place that you can “mouse over” and “click” with your phone and your reality will become augmented by all the data that the phone can assemble on that object—visualize the technology depicted in the Tom Curse flick “Minority Report”.  (I wonder if it will work when you point your camera phone at a person.)

Among others Qualcomm recently recommitted to the technology. At the end of June, the company announced plans to offer an augmented reality platform and software development kit (SDK) to enable vision-based augmented reality applications. On November 10, Qualcomm teamed up with Unity Technologies, which claims to offer the development platform of choice for both 2D and 3D game development on mobile platforms.  Qualcomm is making its Augmented Reality Extension available for Unity. Now, game developers like Trilogy Studio, creator of MTV’s “Pimp my Ride” game can use Qualcomm’s platform to add augmented reality functionality to games they develop or that’s the theory.

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