(via & more http://www.uofmhealth.org/news/3d-woodson-app-1031)Former U-M football star and Super Bowl champion Charles Woodson to make a permanent home at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
Among the surprises in store for the families and patients scheduled to move to the new C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital this December is an appearance by football star Charles Woodson.
With the help of “3D Woodson,” a new mobile app custom made for Mott, Woodson can be brought to life by any Mott visitor with an iPad or iPhone. The technology behind the app, called augmented reality, has never been used in a healthcare setting before.
“We're excited about introducing this technology into a children's healthcare setting,” Bull says.
Nurses can suggest that children walk to the end of a hallway and use an iPad to unlock a cartoon character that praises them for their hard work.
In the future, these augmented reality characters could also be used to deliver age-appropriate health tips or explain to children what they may expect prior to undergoing complex procedures, Bull suggests.
(via YouTube by ConectedProductions )An architectural projection mapping for an event experience in New York City. Scents were diffused with the various stage of the projection to enhance the experience and provide complete senses stimulation.
Agency: Connected Productions
Creative Direction: Vincent Reverdy
Date: February 12, 2011
Location: Gotham Hall - New York City
(via YouTube by DuvalGuillaume)AXA is Belgium's first insurance company to launch an iPhone app. Their free application helps and guides you through some basic steps when you have a car accident.Want to know more? Visit http://www.axa.be/iphone
A crack team of neuroscientist engineers from the University of Minnesota have created the first brain-computer interface (BCI) that allows the human user to navigate a 3D space. In testing, subjects flew a virtual helicopter through randomly-placed rings with an 85% success rate, and at an impressive speed: some testers managed to fly through 11 consecutive rings within five minutes. If you want to see it for yourself, there’s a video embedded below.
Just like the BCI-controlled bicycles and carsthat we covered back in August, the Minnesota team used an EEG cap – a net of 64 electrodes on the scalp that measure brain waves — and some complex software to work out, in real time, what maneuver the helicopter pilot is trying to perform. To do this, each test subject had to train the system to his individual brain waves by repeatedly moving a cursor on a screen, by thinking about moving his arms, legs, and tongue. The software was also slightly customized for each subject, to increase accuracy.
Thrill seekers take a haunted tour through a holographic forest using state of the art Augmented Reality contact lenses. The thrills start off mild and then intensify! Happy Halloween!
(via YouTube by hefluidrobot )
(via YouTube by nezwork )ARspot.itIl nuovo portale che ti consente di creare la tua MyCard, un biglietto da visita in realtà aumentata.Presto disponibile anche su android
Attualmente oltre alle myCard si possono anche creare le FacebookCard e le TwitterCard che sono collegate direttamente al proprio profilo.
Il sistema è basato sulle librerie FlarToolkit
(via YouTube by wirglobal )AR&Co is the largest & most innovative augmented reality & beyond technology company in South East Asia. Since 2009, AR&Co has achieved over 10 innovation cases in its field and been ranked as no 1 & 2 Asia best 'Augmented Reality Study Case 2011'.
Based in Jakarta & Singapore, AR&Co has developed and delivered over 50 augmented reality projects that can be found in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippine, Thailand and Brunei.
www.ar-innovation.com
(via YouTube by spongezone )arstl lets you interact with 3D models in real life before printing them out. It currently supports ASCII and binary STL files. It uses the ArUco library to track the marker and OpenGL to do the displaying. More details and code athttp://eclecti.cc
(via YouTube by HelloYouCreatives )App meets print ad
How do you persuade drivers of the benefits of a car, via print advertising? And without getting them to do a real-life test drive? Volkswagen in Norway addressed this by creating an app which allows users to 'test drive' the car within a print ad, using Augmented Reality.
The print ads appeared in some of Norway's most popular print publications. Having downloaded the app, readers held their phone over the print ad to make the car 'drive' and could test out three different features of the vehicle: Lane Assist, Adaptive Lights and Cruise Control
(via http://augmentedblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/metaio-at-the-itu-telekom-world-2011/)ITU Telecom World 2011 is a gathering of leading industry players, government heads, digital innovators and technological talents – focused on applying the power of connected technology to real-world issues.
One of the key issues is in fact equipment maintenance. While international economic aid occasionally provides new equipment for local factories, the ongoing maintenance of industrial installations, production equipment or fleets of trucks becomes a real problem. Production rates then drop after a while due to equipment failure simply because local workers have not been properly trained for maintenance or do not speak English and are thus unable to read the manuals.
(via YouTube by EricssonLabs )https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/indoor-maps-and-positioning/
Create and design your own Indoor Maps and use them in an application together with Indoor Positioning to create the ultimate Indoor Location-Based Service experience.
https://labs.ericsson.com/
The mobile smartphone platform gets a mapmaking boost this week with new offerings from both Ericsson Labs and Nokia Beta Labs. Both focus on the mobile users’ interest in collecting data about their surroundings.
Ericsson’s Map Studio offers tools to create indoor maps (Map Studio), use the maps in Android Applications (Android Map API), and provide indoor locations via Wi-Fi positioning (Indoor Positioning API). The developer-focused API approach opens up whole new possibilities for capturing and sharing indoor locations, such as
navigation applications for complicated building complexes and the ability to locate people and objects indoors.
Nokia offers up a new Nokia Maps Suite for Symbian this week at Nokia World in London. The bundled offering includes Places to find where you are and what surrounds you, Live View for an augmented reality view with reviews on local businesses, Pulse to see if friends are nearby, and Public Transport to determine the quickest way to get where you want to be.
(via http://www.northkingdom.com/blog/weetakid/)The game sees users take control of Weetakid, a happy and lovable yellow creature whose magical world has been robbed of all its energy by the Evil Eater, the galaxy’s villain. Weetakid and his sidekick Nibbles must then go on a quest to retrieve the items stolen by the Evil Eater.
(via http://www.crunchdot.com/nokia-upgrades-its-augmented-reality-browser-%E2%80%98live-view%E2%80%99/)One of the minor but noteworthy things Nokia announced today at its Nokia World event in London is the release of an updated version of its augmented reality browser Live View, previously available in early beta. You can download the app here . Note that the app is still in beta, but the updated version brings many goodies if you’re into the whole augmented reality thing (and if you use a compatible Nokia phone). Live View, like other augmented reality browsers like Layar , uses your phone’s camera viewfinder to spot nearby places and shows what’s around you: landmarks, ATMs, restaurants, bars, shops, public transport stations and more.
R&D project developed by YDreams; Digital storytelling application that uses Augmented Reality for educational purposes.
(via YouTube by ydreams )
(via YouTube by SocializAR)New ways of connecting people at business events
Social medai combined with augmented reality
Rich visual and interactive environment to meet, share and connect people
After an initial teaser period of a crate mysteriously appearing at Southern Cross Station - complete with a peep hole revealing a teaser hologram, teaser music exuding from the crate and the sighting of high heels inside - the Schweppes crate finally opened it's doors. Those curious enough to engage with the crate are rewarded with a cool ‘cocktail’ bar experience consisting of an interactive cocktail mixing table that uses fruit and drink recognition technology – a world first – to suggest cocktail drinks...
The system functions on 500 MHz, 256 MB of RAM. It runs on Windows CE 6.0, in order to save space on the 2GB that are built-in. It also includes a camera.
If you have $5,000 laying around, why not buy one?
If $5,000 is a bit high for you, you can try out a cheaper pair of glasses from Vuzix, which start at a humble $200. The cheaper Vuzix screens don’t have AR functionality, and don’t look as much like a normal pair of glasses.
So if you have $5,000 to blow and need very badly to remember people’s names, this may be the gadget for you. If you’re worried about what you’ll look like wearing this at parties, you may just want to hire an assistant.
(via http://www.zagg.com/community/blog/this-exists-a-pair-of-glasses-that-includes-augmented-reality/)
