A free public artist talk by Boston-based media artist and activist John Craig Freeman on his use of augmented reality (AR) for public artworks and interventions.
7-7:30PM meet and greet; 7:30-8:30PM lecture + questions.
SOMArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan St. San Francisco.
"Public space is now truly open, as artworks can be placed anywhere in the world, without prior permission from government or private authorities – with profound implications for art in the public sphere and the discourse that surrounds it."
John Craig Freeman has twenty years of experience using emergent technologies to produce large-scale public works at sites where the forces of globalization are impacting the lives of individuals in local communities.
He is currently an Associate Professor of New Media, at Emerson College (Boston) in the Department of Visual and Media Arts and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, at UC San Diego.
http://johncraigfreeman.wordpress.com/
Support for this talk is provided by Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant Program.http://soex.org/artistsresources.html
Presented by Upgrade! San Francisco http://www.upgradesf.org/
(via http://www.happenstand.com/sanfrancisco/events/8074-emergent-technology-as-art-practice-and-public-art-as-intervention)
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(via YouTube by NokiaAustralia )People in Oz test out their kicking and dancing skills against an Augmented Reality (AR) version of Angry Birds and music star Timomatic
(via YouTube goretexnews )Discover GORE-TEX® Footwear with SURROUND™ Product Technology in a new dimension. With your Smartphone and Augmented Reality.
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(via YouTube by jas0nhiggins )You can combine a QR code and AR in one with onvert.com - for free. Augmented Reality allows you to project 3D content from any business card, advert, poster or similar printed media. Just create your code online, add a link, Photoshop your layers and even 30 seconds of sound if you wish. The onvert app is free to download for iPhone or Android and the QR code will link to your website if the user scans with a standard QR code reader.
By now you’ve heard how the Air Jordan 2012 can be customized to fit the way you play. Two interchangeable innersleeves, three cushioning systems – you’ve got options with the most adaptable hoops shoe ever made.
To help you experience the Fly Around, Fly Over and Fly Through flight systems for yourself, we’ve brought the AJ2012 app to the iTunes Store and Android Marketplace. Once you’ve downloaded the app, point it at the image above and watch the AJ2012 come to life. You’ll be able to break down the shoe’s innovative construction and find out which flight system is built for your game in augmented reality.Download the app through iTunes App Store HERE
Coming soon to the Android Market.
スタートアップインキュベーター·プログラム POS情報をARで可視化する試みを行う会社などが有り、新しい可能性を感じる。
The NewMe Accelerator, a startup incubator program focused on underrepresented minorities in the tech industry, assembles a select group of tech entrepreneurs from all over the United States every year to participate in its 12-week Silicon Valley accelerator. NewMe is a residential program, meaning that the entrepreneurs all live together in a house for three months to brainstorm and hack on their respective projects — “eating, sleeping and drinking our startups,” as NewMe puts it. Along the way, mentors such as Mitch Kapor, Vivek Wadwha, Ben Horowitz andothers stop by the NewMe house to provide advice, insight and inspiration.
NewMe’s Class of 2012 startups, in the order in which they appear:AgLocal
Founded by Naithan Jones, it’s a web and mobile marketplace that connects regular consumers with local farms that supply meat.Butlr
Founded by Andre Gabriel, it’s a social shopping game that lets you buy real-world items with virtual currency.PictureMenu
Founded by Christopher Lyons, it brings photo-rich restaurant menus to diners’ smartphones, aiming to eliminate paper menus entirely.Helpr
Founded by Tendekai Muchenje, it allows users to make customer care inquiries through a social media-enabled web app, rather than through the typical telephone help line.Kairos
Co-founded by Amanda McClure and Brian Brackeen, it has developed a new way for retail companies to report sales data and point-of-sale analytics using facial recognition and augmented reality technology.Modul.us
Founded by Rachel Brooks, it is a software platform that enables any e-commerce company to allow their customers to customize and live-render products on the web.Ubi Video
Founded by James Norman, it is a multi-platform video delivery solution that allows users to watch cross-platform video through one portal, and easily discover new things to watch.
(via http://www.hrtapps.com/theodolitehd/)Theodolite HD is a multi-function augmented reality app that combines a compass, GPS, map, zoom camera, rangefinder, and two-axis inclinometer. Theodolite overlays real time information about position, altitude, bearing, range, and inclination on the iPad’s live camera image, like an electronic viewfinder. Uses are endless, and the app is great for outdoor sports, hiking, boating, hunting, golf, sightseeing, photography, and navigation.
Theodolite is used in the field by surveyors, geologists, architects, engineers, military personnel, competitive sportsmen, and search and rescue workers around the world. The app has been featured numerous times in iTunes, and has been the #1 selling Navigation app in the US and UK app stores.
Theodolite HD works on the iPad 2 and new 3rd generation iPad. The app has been graphically mastered to take advantage of the new high resolution Retina Display on the 3rd generation iPad.
If you’ve ever envied Mario’s ability to pluck coins from thin air, Borglar has an augmented reality app for you.
At first look, Borglar is a game that superimposes boxes, medallions and other virtual items over the real world as seen through a mobile device. Rather than just scatter them around, Borglar uses the device’s geolocation capabilities to place these objects on specific GPS coordinates that are relevant to where the gamer physically is.
That’s when the app transcends the land of Mario, however. Borglar works with retailers and other businesses to make those virtual items worth something: an in-game powerup, a discount on a purchase, a downloaded song, or any of the other ideas the Borglar team came up with while talking with South by Southwest attendees.
In other words, Borglar puts a rather literal angle on brand visibility, while combining a touch of geocaching and gaming to the concept of social check-ins.
(via & more http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2012/03/23/augmented-reality-turns-consumers-into-borglars-with-video)
(via YouTube by sheardhudson )Sheard&Hudson Creative is at the forefront of a digital revolution that is about to change the way we all view media.
Sheard&Hudson Creative have partnered with Aurasma to launch an Augmented Reality experience for Jersey Tourism. Jersey is an island within the Channel Isles, located 100 miles south of mainland Britain, just off the French coast, has an unspoilt coastline, 45 miles of impressive countryside and a vibrant and cosmopolitan capital.
Jacqui Sheard, partner at Sheard&Hudson Creative says " This is an exciting development for Jersey Tourism, it enables us to offer them the opportunity to have a fully integrated campaign linking all the key elements of their Marketing together.
(via YouTube by blippar1 )http://blippar.com Clinique goes even further with a little blippar magic. Discover the power to even skin tone and find out what makes other Women feel better!
Leading premium cosmetics brand Clinique launched its first ever mobile augmented reality advertising campaign, bringing the print ads for its Even Better foundation range to life with a range of extra information on people’s smartphone screens.
This includes vox pop videos which show how women can feel ‘even better’ using the foundation, and links to Clinique’s Even Better Makeup and Even Better Clinical TV ads. Everyone who used the Blippar app to locate their nearest store selling Clinique products received a free 5-day supply of custom-fit foundation.
Last week, Kevin gave us the lowdown on the exciting new getUserMedia device API coming to browsers in the near future, partly thanks to the WebRTC specification (the set of JavaScript APIs for Real Time Communication). I can guarantee you we’ll be seeing more webcam and microphone-related experiments over the coming months!
Apart from the classic “Photo Booth” style apps we’re going to see lots of motion tracking and augmented reality experiments — and natively in the browser. Combine that with 3D graphics via WebGL and wow, imagine the possibilities…
So here are a couple of cutting-edge experiments that show off what will soon be possible. The first comes from the always awesome HTML5 Rocks website, run by Google. Check out this demo of motion tracking which uses a pre-recorded video instead of a webcam as the source. Or try out the real thing if you have Google Chrome Canary installed and have printed out the AR marker:
Virtuteq’s ‘augmented reality’ technology allows smartphone users to see information about their location through photos, videos, audio and 3D models, and even obtain directions.
It has been made possible with the support of Newcastle Science City, and is the work of Paul Smith.
At the University of Sunderland and Leeds Trinity, students are now using Virtuteq’s technology to find facilities on campus, and the company is currently working with local museums to provide an interactive guide that allows visitors to have exhibition information at their fingertips.
The technology can also be used to deliver discount vouchers for food, location maps with a ‘take me there’ functionality, and even treasure hunts for children.
Paul is looking to secure investment to take the company international, and to market the product to a wide range of potential users including local authorities and tourist attractions.
He said: “As far as I am aware there aren’t any other companies in the North East or even the UK doing exactly what we are doing.
(via & more http://bdaily.co.uk/news/technology/21-03-2012/north-east-firm-pioneer-location-intelligent-mobile-product/)
(via & more http://7scenes.com/2012/03/creative-concepting-in-milan/)On March 14, we were present at the School of Design of the Italian university 'Politechnico di Milano'. Here we hosted a workshop as part of the course Augmented Reality & Mobile Experience. Eighty-six students will learn all about this subject in the following semester. They participated in our creative hands-on session as an introduction to this course.
During the four-hour workshop, our CEO Ronald Lenz introduced them to the subject of location-based storytelling and augmented reality. The student teams also brainstormed to come up with a creative concept for which they could use the 7scenes platform. Afterwards they learned how to create Scenes on our platform.
Some videos of the student presentations are available on the AR & ME blog.
Check out Brand Expedition, a new book from entrepreneur Martijn Arets in which he pays visit to 20 top European brands. Scan the pages of the book with Layar to view bonus videos!
(via YouTube by layarmobile )
(via http://www.layar.com/blog/2012/03/19/Inspirational_Business_Book_Makes_Great_Use_of_Layar/)
In 2011, author, Martijn Arets, visited 20 inspiring companies around Europe to learn how to build a better brand. The stories and lessons he learned became the book Brand Expedition.
What Martijn set out to do was to visit these companies and understand them better. This became reality when he quit his job and went on the road to interview CEO’s, founders and brand managers. He captured his findings on video and shared his experiences by blogging and tweeting while on the road. At each stop, he requested that each CEO ask the next CEO a question on video. To engage more with his growing audience, Martijn asked them to help pick out which company to visit next.
(via & more http://ssklogs.blogspot.jp/2012/03/how-aurasma-helps-in-teaching-french-to.html)How Aurasma helps in teaching French to my daughter !
Augmented Reality (AR) is a concept wherein real life entities are augmented with additional artifacts like video/images/text when the camera is pointed at them. Aurasma Lite is a nice app to create your own AR world.
(via & more http://iblog-tecknova.blogspot.jp/2012/03/microsoft-patents-virtual-reality.html)Microsoft appears to be taking augmented reality pretty seriously. The software giant has a pair of new patents that were discovered by Patent Boltthis week, detailing projector eyewear technology for use with a game console like the Xbox 360 and with future mobile devices.
The first patent describes a full-on helmet with attached, visor-like eyepieces and appears to be intended for Xbox gamers, according to the blog. The second reveals eyewear that resembles a pair of sunglasses—that's the tech Microsoft would attempt to integrate into future smartphones, media players, and other mobile devices, so it makes sense that it comes in a form that people might actually want to wear out in public.The trouble with compact display systems built into goggles or eyeglasses like the ones Microsoft appears to be building, Patent Bolt notes, is that "the human eye can't focus on images less than a few centimeters away." This means the interface has to present a "virtual image" that appears to the eye as if it's actually further away than on the screen-slash-eyepiece where it really lives.
Microsoft's solution is to use a virtual-image projector that "comprises a laser configured to form a narrow beam, first and second dilation optics [each with a diffraction grating], first and second redirection optics, and a controller," according to Patent Bolt.
See the Dino Match Augmented Reality Game from Rocks In My Socks in action! Learn more about Rocks In My Socks Book at www.RocksInMySocksBook.com.
(via YouTube by BalanceStudiosInc)
(via YouTube shoppersstop1991)This year at the Shoppers Stop up to 51% off sale, we created a unique shopping experience. Download the app from http://bit.ly/GHsN4D and point it at the ad here http://bit.ly/GHsWFl to discover the secret offers we've hidden inside. Point your device at any ad to watch the offers unfold. Available at the App store and Android Market.
This application is no longer in use. This video is just a showcase.
