http://www.netbooknews.com UpLinq 2010 in San Diego June 30- July 1, 2010 was full of innovative products and devices. Netbook News was there to capture innovations around mHealth with the Dexcon Wireless Bandaid Offers 7 Days Glucose Monitoring and Bluetooth stethoscopes. Snapdragon tablets are the talk of the town in my world we didn't get to see any, but we did get a hands on with the Snapdragon SDK on the MSM8655 handheld device. Another advancement that it was good to see was around Augmented Reality, Mattel has come out with a remake of the 1960s game Rockem' Sockem' whose effects are visually stunning.
via Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CSJ7VktRDQ&feature=youtube_gdata
日本におけるARの動向と将来性について調査書が発売されたようだ。
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via Second Times
http://www.secondtimes.net/news/japan/20100704_ar.html
Recently, Qualcomm announced officially its plans to bring to the market an augmented reality platform and software development kit (SDK) to provide the base for a new gen of augmented reality applications. Initially, the solution should become available for handsets based on Google's Android operating system, while the SDK would arrive free of charge even for the distribution of commercial applications. Augmented reality
The IKEA iPhone application is free, and while there is no in-application payments mechanism in this version, the application is designed to increase retail sales.Consumers can use the augmented reality feature to try out the furniture before buying.The application also serves as a branding tool that drives consumers into bricks-and-mortal retail stores.
“The hundreds of thousands of downloads of this app in only few months were thanks to word of mouth, blogs and media that echoed the story,” Mr. Benbunan said.“The unique augmented reality features of this application made it the number-one most downloaded app in many European countries,” he said.
via .mobilecommercedaily.com
http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/ikea-takes-its-product-catalog-mobile-with-augmented-reality-app/
A basic Augmented Reality Framework for the N900.
Built on the powerful Power VR SDK, we developed an AR framework for the N900 smartphone which support:
- marker based tracking,
- face detection, tracking and recognition,
- barcode recognition,
- 3D graphics rendering,
- network support.
Enhancement and optimization are still work in progress.
Coming soon: text recognition, spatial sound, planar markerless tracking, etc.
The framework has been developed in the context of the UI-ART and MMR project (respectively in collaboration with Aalto University and Nokia).
http://mide.tkk.fi/en/UI-ART
http://www.hitlabnz.org
