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

Movie presents our own Augmented Reality engine with FULL HD and 30 FPS live camera preview. 
You can use it for showing 3D animated and static models, video and images on top of the camera preview.
Engine works on Windows 7 and Android Devices now we're porting it to MacOS X and iOS devices

Simple AR Test footage used to illustrate Augmented Reality

Das Augmented Reality Gewinnspiel AR-Safari von Bokowsky + Laymann auf der MobileTech Conference 2011 in München.

E-learning evolves with smart devices

[Anchor]
According to a recent survey, more than half of Koreans have experienced e-learning, which is based on information and communications technology, also shortened as ICT. With the fast spread of smart devices, ICT is evolving in various ways. Let's take a look.

[Reporter]
Images and information are emerging when putting textbooks in smartphones. By showing both imaginary and actual images that can't be seen in the textbooks, the learning effect is significantly improved. An Augmented Reality technology where the real world and three-dimensional virtual world are dubbed is applied to education. The three Dimensional structure also has changed the chalkboard. Combined with a 3D technology which doesn't require glasses, e-learning is not only expanding its arena, but also increasing learning efficiency.

(via YouTube by kimacamerica)

The world's first Augmented Reality Telecom Network Inventory powered by SunTech SA

マクドナルドは先進的なプロモーションを率先して実施する企業の一つだ。その企業が拡張現実の効果を良いと評価し、今後もその効果を期待している。

MUMBAI: McDonald's recently introduced a new dessert McFlurry in India, a global icon for the brand. While the product launch is not the big news, the interesting thing about McFlurry is the use of augmented reality (AR) for promoting the brand on digital media. 

"McDonald's was not much into digital earlier, so when we decided to enter the space we decided to do things differently. We had to speak a new language and to do something that could link globally," explains Rajdeep Chatterjee, marketing head, McDonald's (North & East). 

AR helps give the user a combined experience of the virtual world and real world. The AR initiative has been rolled out by McDonald's in the North & East region only and Chatterjee says the response has been very positive. So how does AR works? In this case within a McDonald's store, a McDonald's employee can shoot any customer in the store and load this recording onto a TV screen within the store.

A model demonstrates augmented reality (AR) as her face is changed to that of an owl on a large screen during a demonstration yesterday at Intel’s booth at CAETEC, Asia’s largest electronics trade show in Chiba City, Japan.Oct 05, 2011

(via TIPEI TIMES http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/photo/2011/10/05/2008063852)
(more http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2011/10/05/2003514933)

メジャーな歌手がステージにおいて、ここまでの規模でARを使用している例は余り多くない。今後は一般的な手法になっていくのかもしれない。

歌手で俳優の福山雅治が1日、フルハイビジョン3チャンネル化したWOWOWの記念特番『WOWOW大開局祭』（1日 前10：00～2日 後10：00＝36時間無料放送）で生中継ライブを行った。番組中、都内のスタジオで5回のライブを行う福山は、オープニングから3曲熱唱。「36時間で5回もライブをやるのはもちろん初めてですが、午前中にライブをやるのも本当に初めて。朝方まで飲んだ帰りにライブをやっているような気分」と白い歯をみせた。

　同局イメージキャラクターを務める福山は、AR（拡張現実）システムを活用した最先端のライブを熱演。右手に「モーションキャプチャマーカー」といわれる機器を装着し、指先からきらびやかな星や光線を放つなど、斬新な映像で視聴者にアピールした。「生中継の生ライブでCGが出ているところが売り込みたいポイント。収録じゃないんですよ」とにんまり。「テレビならではのバーチャルとリアルを融合した新しいライブパフォーマンスを見せたい」と意欲を語った。

(via http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/confidence/2002334/full/ )

画像認識技術が高度な検索技術によってささえられることになる。これは、明らかになるであろう。

To make its business software more effective, HP recently paid $10 billion for Autonomy, a U.K. software company that specializes in machine learning. But it turns out that Autonomy has developed image-processing techniques for gesture-recognizing augmented reality—the type of technology that could be more attractive to consumers than IT managers.

Augmented reality involves layering computer-generated imagery on top of a view of the real world as seen through the camera of a smart phone or tablet computer. So someone looking at a city scene through a device could see tourist information on top of the view.

Autonomy’s new augmented reality technology, called Aurasma, goes a step further: it recognizes a user’s hand gestures. This means a person using the app can reach out in front of the device to interact with the virtual content. Previously, interacting with augmented reality content involved tapping the screen. One demonstration released by Autonomy creates a virtual air hockey game on top of an empty tabletop—users play by waving their hands.

Continues at:  Augmented Reality Meets Gesture Recognition – Technology Review

The Harbor Gallery proudly presents a landmark exhibition of international contemporary new media artists converging on the theme of “place” in its October exhibit, Mediating Place, curated by Meredith Hoy and Kevin Benisvy. The artists hail from New York City; Berkeley, Califonia; London, UK; China (exact wherabouts unkown); and our very own Boston, MA. They represent institutions as diverse as, University of California Berkeley,  University of London, Emerson College, Mass Art, MIT, and University of Rochester and have work in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. The show seeks to address issues of place in the environment, politics, the home, media and technology with work like Ben Bray’s periodic streaming video updates from his current expedition in the Arctic, John Craig Freeman (with Lily & Honglei, Mark Skwarek, Lalie S. Pascual, Caroline Bernard and 4Gentlemen) augmented reality installations famed for using their politically-minded virtual exhibitions, Ann Torke’s residual accumulation sculptures from the home, and much more.

Mobile phone Augmented Reality artworks on view (screenshots by John Craig Freeman):

Participating Artists
Ben Bray, Miriam Dym, ecoarttech (Cary Peppermint and Leila Nadir), John Craig Freeman (with Lily & Honglei, Mark Skwarek, Lalie S. Pascual, Caroline Bernard and 4Gentlemen) , Jane Prophet, Anne Torke, and Dyllan Nguyen.

Location
Harbor Gallery, UMass Boston
McCormack building floor 1
100 William T. Morrissey Blvd., Boston MA, 02125.

Gallery Hours & Reception
October 5th – 25th.
Reception on October 5th from 5 – 8 PM.
Open Monday – Thursday, 12 – 7 PM

(via http://lilyhonglei.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/mediating-place-exhibition-at-harbor-gallery-ma/)

We're organizing a big game: http://facebook.com/CorridorDigital FOR INFO!
Download the music: http://bit.ly/oHqcm5

We have combined airsoft with augmented reality and holograms for the ultimate gaming experience! These are real airsoft games, visually enhanced!
A big thanks to http://evike.com for helping us with gear and planning the games. It was fun battling with you guys!

(via YouTube by CorridorDigital )

http://blippar.com Try blipping the new XBOX Forza Motorsport 4 ad for augmented reality interactive video and don't forget to enjoy the engine rev noise button. 
Available on Q, FHM, Gamesmaster, Total Film, T3, Shortlist, HUK, 360Gamer, 360 Magazine, FourFourTwo magazine and Empire magazine. 
Download Blippar on iPhone and Ipad2 -http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/blippar/id410604563?mt=8
Download blippar on Android - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.blippar.ar.android

If you’re reading this before 4:45pm GMT on Sunday 2 October 2011, you’re a Spurs fan and you happen to own either an Android or Apple smartphone, then you’re in luck. Pocket-lint’s App of the Day today is not something exclusive to you, but you’re going to get some very nice half time entertainment if you remember to download it before the home leg of the North London Derby.

Should you not be a member of the group above, then, fear not, it’s still worth a download. So, fingers on the trigger all the same.

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The “Lite” part of the Aurasma Lite app rather cheapens it but, given that there’s currently no paid version of Aurasma out there, then you can rest assured that your free download - which this is - is fully featured. So, what the hell does it do, you might be asking yourself.

Aurasma is an augmented reality browser platform that uses your mobile phone’s camera to examine pictures from the outside world as it searches for images and patterns that it can match up with those same images and patterns that it happens to have logged and recorded up in the cloud on the Aurasma servers. Once it makes a match, the servers then send down whatever video or stills image content associated to play on your phone's screen.

In the case of Spurs, the club’s sponsor this year happens to be Autonomy which owns Aurasma. So what both Tottenham and their sponsor have organised is that if you hold your phone’s camera up to the Aurasma shirt logo at half time on Derby Day, you’ll get a load of footage of the best goals scored by Spurs in the Premier League so far this season. Thanks to Spurs’s 4-0 demolition of Liverpool the other weekend, it won’t be such a short video after all. Whether there will be the opportunity to add on any more after the first 45 minutes against Arsenal remains to be seen.

(via http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/42340/aurasma-app-review-tottenham-spurs)

Developers can now download the public beta of the highly anticipated web technology based Augmented Reality platform.
Wikitude was excited to present the launch of its latest innovation at Droidcon Eastern Europe in Romania today.

Since the initial announcement of Wikitude ARchitect at the ARE conference in Silicon Valley earlier this year, the first public beta ARchitect Development Kit (ADK) for Android is now available for download here.

The ADK is filled with information and specifications, which will help developers on their way to creating their very own AR experience. As well as the actual ARchitect Mobile Viewer, which let’s you test drive your AR World prior to publication, developers will find a set of documents explaining the library on code level including APIs and other useful tools, such as the ARchitect Desktop Engine, a simulator to execute ARchitect Worlds in a desktop browser.

There is so much developers can do with Wikitude’s ARchitect and the advanced features open unlimited possibilities with interaction, animations and media playback!

Download the Wikitude ARchitect Developer Kit today to find much more information including tutorials and demo videos and check out our Flickr page for high resolution images of Wikitude ARchitect.

Get the ADK and start building your ARchitect World today!

(via http://www.wikitude.com/enwikitude-reveals-architect-developer-kit)

A video from the ARchitect Mobile Viewer app by Wikitude. This scene shows how the size objects can be animated.

This video demonstrates the system described in the paper, "DTAM: Dense Tracking and Mapping in Real-Time" by Richard Newcombe, Steven Lovegrove and Andrew Davison for ICCV 2011. This is the first single passive camera system to demonstrate a complete dense 6DOF tracking/dense mapping pipeline for non parametric scene reconstructions

This is a promotional video for 4th Wall Technologies newest development called Treasure Hunt. Treasure Hunt is a mobile application that uses augmented reality and GPS to turn the real world into a scavenger hunt for finding coupons.

(via YouTube anilrohatgi)