(via YouTube)Fitnect is an interactive virtual fitting room application built on the most advanced technologies: augmented reality, cloth physics and full body motion capture. As a customer you can select garments from the menu without trying them out at all. Watch yourself onscreen with a 3D copy of the selected dress. You can control the program by pushing virtual buttons right in the air. Fore more information visit www.fitnect.com!
AR test using String (c) technology
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(via YouTube)This is a video that we have made of the researches in our laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department in NUS.
(via YouTube)Augmented Reality Photo Booth connect Facebook from Science I Like project at Science Week 2011. Learngears Report #1
(via YouTube)This is a demo I created to show the functionality of my augmented reality tutorial program. The program uses natural markers. The source code is avaliable from my blog. The camera movement is a little shakey because I was hand holding the webcam. I've played the video at 2 speed so it is less tedious.
(via YouTube)The School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and the Design Lab at the University of Sydney (USYD) are collaborating along the themes of augmented reality and urban playgrounds. This collaboration, managed by New Media Curation, is titled Urban Realities & Augmented Play. The project will consist of a joint exhibition, launch, and publication; all of which will serve as a public platform for emerging interaction design students. On launch night, students, industry experts and academics, and the general public converge to create an environment of creativity and experimentation. This video display footage of the launch night.
(via Yutube)JuJu is an augmented reality application for smart phones and tablets supported through the Layar augmented reality platform. JuJu is collaborating with club and bar owners around Los Angeles to provide users a heightened nightlife experience. When viewing JUJU, you are given access to an alternative space through your phone; showing the night's line-up, live view and more. Find Out More at GotJuJu.com
There is a new technology platform that is slowly making waves. It is called Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality allows people to visualize digital content as an integral part of the physical world that surrounds them. It gives people a very convenient way of accessing the information by just looking at their phone camera. For example, if you’re standing on a street corner and point your phone’s camera at a coffee shop, the application could create a 3D image over the real-world image which tells you what the coffee of the day is, or it could show you users’ reviews of the coffee shop, or other types of helpful information about the business.
Augmented Reality will, among other things, enhance the marketing and advertising industry.
According to a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, it is possible to identify strangers and find out their personal information using facial recognition software and their profiles on social media sites. They used a combination of three easily-accessible technologies: an off-the-shelf face recognizer, cloud computing and publicly available information from social network sites.
The team conducted three experiments and also developed a smartphone app. In one experiment, they identified people on a popular online dating site where members protect their privacy through usernames. In a second experiment, they identified students walking around campus, based on their profile photos on Facebook. And in the third experiment, they predicted personal interests and, in some cases, even the Social Security numbers of the students, beginning with only a photo of their faces. Head of the research team, associate professor Alessandro Acquisti, said:
By Emma Hutchings on August 8, 2011
(via YouTube)This is a virtual Bowling Game made using Augmented Reality. In this game I have used ARToolkit , Bullet Physics Library , OpenGl. I have used ARToolkit for Augmented Reality, Bullet Physics Library for Physics and OpenGl for Graphics.
(via YouTube)Boy in clip: Oyani.com
(via YouTube)This video is just a controlled example of what could be possible when Minecraft comes to the smartphone market. Using Kudan's Qoncept augmented reality engine which requires no QR codes to work, it is possible to use symbols such as manholes and drains as markers for the engine, which can then render an augmented Minecraft scene.
This idea could even be developed substantially with the use of the smartphone GPS into a real, location-based Minecraft adventure...
http://www.kudan.eu
(via & more http://www.springwise.com/lifestyle_leisure/tagwhat/)Now available for iPhone 3GS/4 and Android, Tagwhat’s “Great Stories at Places” app aims to let users experience hidden stories everywhere they go. The company’s team of new media journalists and filmmakers have amassed thousands of original and curated stories told in words, images, video and audio, supplemented by publishing partners including the Associated Press, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Virginia Beach Public Library system. Stories describe and enhance the places around the user, and are organized into channels focusing on topics such as music, food, nature and art. They pop up on top of real-life locations when users look through their phone’s camera, changing based on what they’re looking at.
(via YouTube)See How It Looks... A quick video tutorial for online shoppers that are using our Webcam Social Shopper for the first time.
Webcam Social Shopper turns your webcam into a mirror and lets you "hold" clothing up in front of yourself. To demo visit www.webcamsocialshopper.com
For many, online shopping is just a means to an end. You click, compare, checkout and you’re done. The technology is cut and dry, with the goal of quick comparison shopping ending in an educated sale. But for Zugara, the e-commerce experience is lacking.
“For us, we see online shopping as a process,” Jack Benoff, Zugara’s vice president of product and marketing told VentureBeat. “We wanted to make online shopping an experience for people.”Augmented reality was Zugara’s answer.
(via http://www.pcworld.com by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal, PCWorld )Several months ago I wrote an article called "Why Facebook Facial Recognition is Creepy." It was sparked by a feature Facebook had just rolled out to people--facial recognition, or the ability to identify people in photos.
In my article, I argued that Facebook's new feature was creepy--not because of how Facebook was using it, but because of the implications such a technology has for the future of privacy. Sure, the technology has been around for awhile--and many companies have been developing it--but what scares me the most about Facebook in particular is its incredibly vast archive of user photos from which to draw.
Facial recognition technology, on its face (excuse the pun), isn't that scary--because it can't be seriously developed without an exhaustive archive of photos. Google has said that facial recognition technology is creepy--but even Google using and developing facial recognition technology wouldn't be all that worrisome, because Google doesn't have an extensive archive of tagged user photos, just begging to be tapped into.
Well, let me say right now that I told you so.
According to Mashable, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University recently proved that Facebook's vast photo archive can be used to identify people on the street. Yes, in real life. Yes, we can totally use Facebook's archive to identify people in real life, from photos on the web.
(via http://www.androidtapp.com/parallel-kingdom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=parallel-kingdom)Parallel Kingdom is a real-time multiplayer location based role playing game. Parallel Kingdom shows you a parallel universe that exists all around you. Only now do we have the technology to actually see it. You will play the game on a Google Map at your actual location. Using simple, Zelda-style graphics, Parallel Kingdom shows the creatures lurking in your backyard and the mythical beasts that you pass everyday on your way to work. Play alongside others that have discovered this portal to another dimension. Chat and strategize in real time how best to conquer and claim this strange world.
(via YouTube)Curious to see what your little one may look like? The Friso Miracle of Love Womb Scan programme enables you to follow the growth of a virtual foetus week by week (up to 40 weeks!), alongside the real one inside you.
The virtual foetus can be personalised according to your preference, when you purchase the limited edition Frisomum Gold promo pack that comes with a Womb Scan t-shirt. For more information, visit: http://bit.ly/WombScan
(via Where To? for iPhone Can Help You Find & Share Places to Go. Optional AR View Adds to Discovery Fun)Where To? helps you discover things around you. It provides 11 broad categories with many subcategories in each to help you search for specific venues. Search results can be displayed in one of three ways:1. Pushpins on a map
2. A list with results grouped by distance from you
3. Augmented Reality view (a 99 cent in-app purchase) that show results in a camera view. Result shown in large text are near you and results in small text are farther away
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