(via YouTube)G George is the first augmented reality transformation of street art inside a gallery. In Lab Art, a Los Angeles gallery, when placing street artist Kai Aspire's "Masked" (George Washington) in the camera view of your smartphone (Android or Iphone), the painting unlocks a piece of augmented reality art, or ARt. This kind of augmented reality | artistic interaction is an example of hypAR-reality, which implodes the distinction between the "real" and the "imaginary." Triggered from the "real" world, the virtual "art" can reveal another layer of meaning, which is in this case... the "g"angster street artist we always knew G George was.
(via YouTube)Authors: J. Marescaux, MD, FRCS; L. Soler, PhD; M. Arenas, MD; G. Bouras, MRCS; F. Rubino, MD
(via YouTube)Augmented Reality (AR) on a real head drives a second head. Solution based on ARToolkit and Arduino. More info at:http://techartblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/second-head.html
(via YouTube)OmniGuider貼身導遊-實景導航影片
OmniGuider貼身導遊網站:http://www.omniguider.com
Android Market:https://market.android.com/details?id=OmniGuider.show.out&feature=search_result
OmniGuider貼身導遊，是利用專利之精準定位技術結合擴增實境技術，在手機上將資訊呈現在真實世界中的一項產品。
OmniGuider貼身導遊這個產品所要帶給使用者，一個虛擬專屬私人導遊之感受，讓使用者外出旅遊時不僅擁有導航的服務，並且到達旅遊目的地後，可以提供逛街時的導覽服務。OmniGuider貼身導遊可以提供觀光景點服務，或是商家的行動廣告。當使用者用手機的鏡頭對準某一景點時，手機上立刻會顯示該景點的相關訊息；當使用者用 手機的鏡頭對準某一商家時，手機上立刻會顯示該商家的商品資訊、特價資訊、促銷活動等廣告訊息。一般的手機上行動廣告是以橫欄(Banner)廣告方式，以跑馬燈輪播 的機制來呈現，常常會造成使用者的困擾與視覺不悅。OmniGuider貼身導遊最大的特點是，它只提供使用者感興趣的資料，以達到人性化且適地性的服務。
--功能與特色--
(1) 提供客製化導覽服務
(2) 提供即時且精準的廣告訊息服務
(3) 提供個人化景點資訊服務
(4) 提供商家後台資訊管理之服務
(5) 提供離線規劃行程之功能
(6) 免費擴增實境 (Augmented Reality)及適地性服務 (Location Based Service; LBS) 程式
(7) 三種搜尋模式：擴增實境、地圖、列表
(8) 擴增實境方向導引和路徑規劃
(9) 設定搜尋範圍：200公尺、500公尺、1000公尺
(10) 設定搜尋景點類別
--貼心提醒--
1. 本系統將會用到GPS及3G、 WiFi網路，以提供您最貼身的導遊功能。
2. 歡迎至 http://www.omniguider.com 網頁上，新增屬於自己的專屬景點。
(via & more http://augmentedstories.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/new-work-first-ar-pop-up-book-for-ipad-2-and-iphone-4-using-image-recognition/ )Introducing a few sample pages from my new Augmented Reality (AR) Pop-up Book, “Who’s Afraid of Bugs?” with video and images below. I’d like to present the first AR Pop-up Book for mobile devices using image recognition (a.k.a. regular images to trigger augmented content, as opposed to the black and white square glyphs that are common in AR). Integrating image recognition in the design, the book can hence be enjoyed alone as a regular pop-up book, or supplemented with augmented digital content when viewed through a mobile device equipped with a camera, such as an iPad 2 or iPhone 4.
Playful rhyming text takes you through the storybook where various ‘creepy crawlies’ (spider, ant, and butterfly) are awaiting to be discovered, appearing virtually as 3D models you can interact with. A tarantula attacks when you touch it, an ant hyperlinks to educational content with images and diagrams, and a butterfly appears flapping its wings atop a flower in a meadow.
(via http://blogs.unity3d.com/2011/06/27/london-unity-usergroup-luug-3-string-preloaded/)London Southbank University, 23rd June 2011 – Unity users, newcomers and developers gather at the third London Unity User Group (LUUG) to see presentations from developer Mike Renwick on his experience with recently launched Augmented Reality solution String (poweredbystring.com) and Jon from agency Preloaded on their experience of developing Boccia, a recent project for the Paralympics and UK TV channel, Channel4.As usual, the event was followed by a meetup at the local pub, The Ship. The next meetup is scheduled for next month, with a date TBC, to subscribe to news visit the meetup page at -http://www.meetup.com/London-Unity-Usergroup/
(via YouTube)The prototype of our game Chromian Wars (formerly known as Project Alpha Rho) running on iPad 2 and iPhone 4 with the Augmented Reality module enabled!
(via YouTube)This Augmented Reality Application allows the user to see and manage virtual furniture in the real space. The system combines the classical marker-based tracking approach with a mobile commercial robot in order to obtain a hybrid tracking system. For further information: guido.re@kaemart.it
(via YouTube)We grabed a 3 D Animation Character via 3D-Max/Maya Data out of a animation movie. The client asked us to render the character in realtime. We used facetracking for positioning and morphtargets for realtime tracking. We transfer the face- and body data into the realtime rending enviroment of a augmented reality renderer. Tracking of the mimik and mophstargets done by keypad. You see the setup of our AR+-System in 3 movieparcs of the Walibi-Group in France
(via YouYTube)Reality Fighters really shows off what the PlayStation Vita's cameras can do. Take a picture of yourself, add as your fighting character. As well as the rear facing camera captures whatever is in it's view and turns it into the battlefield! Reality Fighter is a 2D fighting game that uses Augmented Reality and great use of the Vita's cameras.
TapNav World’s First Vision Based AR Navigation from Lustancia SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Lustancia is excited to announce the release of TapNav, the world’s first vision based Augmented Reality GPS Navigation. The application can be downloaded from the apple appstore in US, Germany, France, and Spain.
TapNav is a GPS navigation application for the iphone to assist drivers. TapNav is powered by the most advanced techologies in computer vision which allows the camera of the iphone to detect lanes at 29 frames per second. ‘Computer vision’ and ‘lane detection’ are the keys to providing an intuitive and precise driving directions to the user.
mSonar, the development studio within Lustancia LTD, plans to continuously update TapNav with a vision of becoming a full-package driving assistant application to help people get to their destinations safer and faster.
Learn more about TapNav on the iTunes App Store here: http://goo.gl/c7jDC
http://dailygizmonews.com/2011/06/24/lustancias-tapnav-app-takes-your-iphone-for-an-ar-assisted-spin/(via http://www.csicon.org/pottermore-announced/ )The rumors during the past couple of hours seemed to indicate that the announcement from J.K. Rowling would be a sort of ARG – Augmented Reality Game – which would take place online and then send people out into the real world looking for clues of some sort. The Guardian had an interesting write-up about it which they claim came from a leak within Pottermore’s PR company, Adam & Eve. Aspiring wizards the world over would hope to find an undisclosed number of magic wands hidden throughout the UK and US – possibly other countries as well. The reality of the matter was far off. Enjoy the video below for more information about what Pottermore is all about!
“COMIT’s mission is to promote the use of mobile technology within the UK construction industry by spreading best practice, promoting new developments and facilitating understanding between technology providers and construction companies.”KOREC were originally invited to participate in a COMIT project to investigate whether Augmented Reality can be of use in a construction environment, another member of COMIT invited us to join the team after we carried out a survey of the M1 Improvement project using the Trimble MX8 Mobile Scanner. The project is broken up into 3 phases. The first is to look at current technology and data on a live construction site, so that we can define the shortfalls within hardware, software and techniques. The second phase is to carry out research and development with an aim to solving the issue surrounding accurate real time locations and data guides. The final phase is to deploy a solution in a real world environment.
KOREC recently signed up as members of COMIT and we are already starting to take an active involvement with some of the research projects. Who exactly are COMIT I hear you asking? This is probably best explained by taking a quick look at the COMIT Mission:
Third Eye by Viewdle from Viewdle on Vimeo.
----(via & more http://www.teezoot.com/2011/06/android-equipped-with-facial-analysis.html )Facial recognition startup Viewdle has begun letting Android smartphone users see which of the people around them are vampires and which are vampire slayers.
A "Third Eye" augmented reality game released by the San Francisco company online at viewdle.com is the first installment in a trilogy that will culminate in a battle between the undead and defenders of the living. It was also intended as a fun demonstration of a powerful software platform that lets smartphone cameras recognize what they see and potentially support services such as sight for the blind or memories for the forgetful. "It is true science fiction on some level," Viewdle chief product officer Jason Mitura told AFP.
We all use it, know it, and trust it, but how exactly is Yelp so good at what they do? Starting in 2004, Yelp took local reviews and word-of-mouth to the digital space. Now with over 18 million reviews, Yelp boasts an impressive “100% growth across the board,” according to CEO Jeremy Stoppelman. Preparing for an IPO in the near future, Yelp is as excited as we are about all the things they have to offer.
Andrea Rubin, Yelp’s Vice President of Marketing North America, took time to speak with brandchannel about their digital strategy. She attributes their success in part to mobile expansion, part to their commitment to local, and part to fun.
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リアルタイムで人の動作を反映されるデモや、高速認識エンジンが素晴らしい！
A small London-based company called String Labs has developed a new augmented reality (AR) engine - which merges both your real-world environment and a virtual one.
After installing an app on an iPhone or iPad users can experience AR at home. In the future this could mean we could walk around our favourite bands as they perform in the comfort of our living room. Spencer Kelly tried it out.
READ MORE: Will augmented reality ever work properly?
