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

Kevin Slavin told a new, improvised story. Within an hour ;he set up this talk on reality, and why reality is plenty.

運転中にも音声でテキストメッセージングが行える音声認識機能付きアプリケーションのDriveSafe.lyを提供しているiSpeechがSDKをリリースして、その機能をiOS、Android、およびBlackBerryのアプリケーションから利用できるようにした。

公開されたSDKを利用することで、開発社は自分のアプリケーションに音声認識機能を組み込むことができるようになる。モバイルアプリケーションの開発社は無料でiOS、Android、およびBlackBerry用のSDKを利用することができる。

iSpeech SDKおよびAPIでの対応言語は25ヶ国語以上にのぼり、40種類以上の音声を提供している。プレミアムサービスも用意されており、こちらではセレブの音声やカスタム音声にも対応できる。また、このプレミアム版では利用目的に応じて音声認識の精度を変更することもできるようになっている。

一般公開に先立って、TeleNav、Car and Driver、DailyHoroscopeなどのパートナーに対しては既にAPIの提供を開始していたそうだ。iSpeechによれば、これまでにテキストから音声への変換および音声のテキスト変換をあわせて10億件の利用があったとのことだ。

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Xray for “Alfa InfoMobile“- look inside Alfa Giulietta and Mito. from seac02 on Vimeo.

Seac02 has developed the XRAY section that allows you to "scan" Alfa Mito and Giulietta. In fact, by accessing this section you can rotate Alfa Mito or Giulietta in the position you prefer and dragging over the X-ray lens you can see the body, engine, suspension, or all three parts together. Using two fingers on the iPhone touchscreen you can zoom or move the image to find out more details that could interest us. Free download compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

In 2000 GestureTek transformed the way people interact with computing displays by inventing and patenting 3D video gesture control. Our pioneering of this technology over the last 10 plus years has resulted in a multi-patented 3D-vision gesture control system, which is a highly precise and reliable user interface for interacting with any display screen from any distance.

Whether on a personal computer, set top box, television set, mobile device, game console, digital sign or interactive kiosk, GestureTek's ground-breaking depth tracking software enables users to control onscreen interaction with simple hand motions instead of a remote control, keyboard or touch screen.

This technology has been used for custom installations for Fortune 500 companies over the last 10 years, and GestureTek continues to offer this advanced state of the art technology and service to its clients. Some of the technology and patents that are the basis of this technology have been licensed to major consumer electronics companies, like Microsoft, for use on the XBOX.

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日時：8月10日　19:10〜21:00
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AR関連の企業および組織が、ARプロダクトが世界を変​えていくことでAR市場が今後活性化することを伝えます​。

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The Augmented Reality Korean Unification Project
http://koreanunificationproject.wordpress.com/

***shown is a "visualization" of the project working. Live footage will be captured during the month of August and posted. Augments do currently exist at the Korean DMZ so bring your iPhone and send me a picture! 

The Augmented Reality Korean Unification Project unites North and South Korea with augmented reality [AR]. The project tries to heal the scars left by years of conflict in the Korean peninsula by removing the Korean Demilitarized Zone [DMZ] and returning it to its natural state before Korea was divided. The public may view Korea as a unified country as it once was. The AR Korean Unification Project removes weapons, checkpoints, fortifications, barriers, walls, and all reminders of the ongoing conflict from the Korean landscape.

This project is being developed by Mark Skwarek and uses erasAR technology.
http://www.markskwarek.com/ 

Our team decided they wanted to build an augmented reality scavenger hunt using daqri's QR code platform. Check out how we turned the Anaheim Convention Center into an AR playground during this year's AM2 con. See more at daqri.tumblr.com or daqri.com and take a crack at making your own sometime.

電通国際情報サービス（ISID）は8月4日、位置情報やAR（拡張現実）技術を活用したサービス事業の強化を目的に、クウジットと業務・資本提携したことを発表した。提携にともない、クウジットはISIDを引受人とする第三者割当増資を実施し、ISIDは所有比率24.5％の筆頭株主となるとともに、クウジットはISIDの持分法適用会社となる。

クウジットでは、独自の無線LAN電波で屋内でも位置を推定する「PlaceEngine」技術や、AR技術「KART（Koozyt AR Technology）」を核に、位置情報配信サービスやARマーケティングサービス「GnG（GET and GO）」事業を展開している。またISIDでは、スマートフォンの普及に伴い位置連動型サービスを重点投資領域と位置付け、研究開発を進めてきたという。

両社は今後、クウジットの位置情報技術やAR技術と、ISIDのマーケティングノウハウを結集することで、消費者属性やライフログ、ソーシャルグラフに基づく行動解析と位置情報を連動させたユビキタスプラットフォームを開発し、大規模商業施設や公共施設向けにサービスを提供するとしている。

Abstract paintings are displayed on the wall of the exhibition room, arranged similarly to shows of historical collections in traditional museums. A special custom-made mixed-reality interface hangs in front of the canvases, which acts as an intelligent video camera. By watching the handmade nonfigurative pictures through the screen of the interface, solid three-dimensional virtual objects can be observed, “floating” in front of the paintings. As the animated virtual objects are augmentations of the live video image, they appear surprisingly realistic, and can be explored as free-standing reliefs. These animated virtual reliefs are modeled after figurative, representational paintings from the historical collections of KUMU Art Museum Tallin.

On June 10th 2011, ATV had their short interview with the CEOs' of Hennessy V.S.O.P Hong Kong and Cherrypicks Ltd, about the Hennessy Mix Application and how it's able to win the two Grand Awards at the 2011 ICT Event Hong Kong. The interview also included how Cherrypicks were able to master the Augmented Reality user experience, that made Hennessy Mix so unique when it first came out into the public. This included the catchy, booty-shaking music that users could dance too, while enjoying the 3D image of the drink.

Hyper(reality) - Geffrye Museum from Maxence on Vimeo.

Hyper(reality) - The Last Tuesday Society from Maxence on Vimeo.

Maxence Parache's experimental augmented-reality system lets you detach your point of view from your body. We take our first-person visual perspective for granted every second of the day -- we have to, because our eyeballs are attached to our heads. But what if you could detach your personal "camera angle" at any moment and float away from your own body while still inhabiting it, like an on-demand out-of-body experience? Designer Maxence Paranche has created the next best thing in his HyperReality system, which uses a Microsoft Kinect to scan your physical environment and display it inside a virtual-reality helmet, so you can rotate the visual angle any way you like.

 

Parking your car is always a little stressful. Here in the UK those parking bays seem to get slimmer and slimmer whilst the cost of leaving your car gets higher and higher. Oh, and don’t be a couple of minutes late coming back to your car either, because there’ll probably be a parking ticket slapped on the window.

But that’s enough of me moaning.  NCP have just released a free Car Park Finder application for Android. The app will find local car parks, guide you to them and will show you information on opening times. There’s driving and walking guidance plus a car finder system which shows picture of where you parked your car along with an augmented reality feature showing you the exact location.

(via http://all-phones.sc-pulse-media.com/find-a-parking-space-easier-with-the-ncp-android-app)

Layar Vision is an extension of the Layar platform, taking augmented reality to the next level. Layar Vision allows the creation of layers and applications that recognize real world objects and display digital experiences on top of them.

Layar Vision uses detection, tracking and computer vision techniques to augment objects in the physical world. It can tell which objects in the real world are augmented because the visual fingerprints of the objects are preloaded into the application based on the user's layer selection.

Learn more at http://www.layar.com/layar-vision
 And see our other video, "Layar Vision Explained" athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KFjlpnMhmw

AMSTERDAM, August 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

Layar Vision Opens the Door to the Next Generation of Augmented Reality Experiences

Layar, the largest open platform for mobile augmented reality (AR), today announced Layar Vision. Layar Vision enables the mobile phone to recognise real world objects and show digital content on top of them. When holding their phone over posters, magazines and newspapers users are able to view and interact with these digital experiences.

Layar Vision is an extension of the Layar platform, already used by over 10,000 developers worldwide to create Augmented Reality experiences for smartphones. With this extension the platform is now able to enhance existing media like print with augmented reality experiences. These experiences offer brands and publishers new ways to engage with customers. Layar is already installed on 10 million mobile devices ensuring an extensive reach across multiple platforms.

Layar Vision is versatile in its ability to instantaneously detect up to 50 target objects on which a wide range of augmentations can be displayed. These objects are easily combined with existing location-based layers, and, in concert with audio, video and animated 3D objects, can create truly immersive experiences.

http://howto-media.tk/ zeigt euch eine "Erweiterte Realität-Application" für euer Handy. (von engl. augmented reality ) versteht man die computergestützte Erweiterung der Realitätswahrnehmung. 
Diese Information kann also eine Ergänzung von Bildern oder Videos mit computergenerierten Zusatzinformationen oder virtuellen Objekten mittels Einblendung/Überlagerung sein. 

 楽譜をカメラで撮って、瞬時に演奏できるiPhoneアプリ『楽譜カメラ』のプロモーションムービー（ダイジェスト編）です。 『楽譜カメラ』は、「リアルタイム楽譜認識エンジン」を搭載することにより、楽譜にカメラを向けるだけで五線や音符を瞬時に認識し、画面にタッチしてすぐに音を鳴らせるi Phoneアプリです。