Alzheimer and dementia are two serious diseases that affect older people worldwide. While these disease are still Waiting for a cure, an Australian company is using augmented reality to make the daily life of patients more enjoyable patients. We tell you all about this project. The Forest Project uses the Unreal Engine 4 which includes a Smart TV and Microsoft Kinect 2 to create an immersive experience of virtual worlds. In addition to helping patients, technology is also being used to improve the overall care of patients by providing support teams with a simulation environment to better understand how their patients see the world around them. This week, developers are giving a lecture during which they will present in detail the project. We will return soon on the subject to tell you more.(via http://www.technocrazed.com/augmented-reality-makes-the-life-of-alzheimer-patients-more-joyful)
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o2wl3-j6NQ#t=19)A group of students from the University of Applied Sciencses in Augsburg are using Augmented Reality to expand a series of secret paintings created by Paul Klee while he served as the treasurer’s typist at the Royal Bavarian Flying School in the early- to mid- 1900s.The students created their own application as part of the Master’s course “Interactive Media” in cooperation with the Paul Klee exhibition “Mythos Fliegen” (“The myth of flying”). They choose eleven different pieces of art from the Klee exhibition to enhance with color and animation, with the goal being that visitors should experience something entirely new while visiting the exhibition and still being able to appreciate the original artwork.
Das Imagefilm ist nur ein Quickview , es zeigt wie das App Movin Klee in der Paul Klee Mythos Fliegen Ausstellung funktioniert.
防衛省によると、キミにエール AR は史上初となる陸・海・空自衛隊全三幕公認のスマートフォン向けのアプリ。若年層に自衛隊への興味を抱かせ、入隊を希望するきっかけになることを狙っているという。 スマートフォンにアプリをインストール、起動し、自分の顔を撮影してから、背景となる専用の AR マーカーにカメラを向けると、画面に「自衛官になった未来の自分＝アバター」が現れる。アバターは「敬礼」「休め」「ほふく前進」など全12種類のアクションをとりながら、勇気づけるような言葉や偉人の名言、自衛隊トリビアなどを発する。ちなみに、マーカーは自衛官募集のWeb サイトなどからPDFでダウンロードすることができる。(via http://internetcom.jp/wmnews/20140326/3.html)
Visit their Kickstarter @ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...Curse's Andrew gets a hands on first look at the new Rescape game platform by 13th Lab to create an augmented reality, immersive, multiplayer, FPS experience for iOS (and Android later this year) with a rifle controller.(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHggAz-ndZI)
Projection Mapping on a Nissan Altima at the launch in Kuwait. Using AdVis Interactive Projection software, content was warped and blended to create an impressive stage display.(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1e2rb61g48)
(vai & more jp.techcrunch)Googleは、イタリアのメガネメーカー、Luxotticaと、将来のGlassフェイスベース・コンピューティング・システムに関する提携契約を結んだ。Wall Street Journalが報じ、TechCrunchがGoogleに確認した。ニュースはLuxottica自身が発したもので、同社はGoogleのウエアラブルの新バージョンを開発し、理論的にそれらは、レイバン、オークリー、ミュウミュウ、アルマーニ、その他多くのLuxotticaサブブランドを冠することになると言っている。以前Googleは、Glass用に独自の内製処方メガネフレームを225ドル（レンズ別）で提供すると発表した。Luxotticaとの提携は、世界最大級のメガネ製造会社からビッグネームによる支持を得られることを意味している。そしてそれは、同社のアイレベル・スマートデバイスが一般大衆市場に浸透する可能性を持っていることを、批評家たちに納得させるのにも役立つはずだ。
「改札を出た後、どちらに向かって歩けばいいのか」――初めて訪れるような場所、それも地下街や屋内において、スマートフォンで道案内をできるよう、国交省や鉄道事業者、通信事業者が手を組んで実証実験を行う。期間は、3月25日～5月31日。舞台となるのは渋谷で、一般ユーザーも参加できる。
2020年の東京オリンピックで、多くの人が国内外から訪れることが想定される中、スマートな道案内をいかに実現すべきか、という観点が掲げられる今回の実験は、渋谷マークシティおよび渋谷駅の地下エリア（地下3～1F）にBluetoothのタグ（発信器、63カ所）や、ARマーカー（45カ所）を設置し、そこから発信される電波、あるいはARマーカーを読み取って得たデータを元に現在地を割り出して、目的地までの道のりを案内する。Bluetoothでの案内機能が利用できる機種（動作確認機種）は、iPhoneのみ（iPhone 5/5s、iOS 7以降）。技術的にはAndroidでもBluetoothでの利用は可能だが、現時点でのAndroidアプリはARマーカーのみサポートする。
tokinisakuhana.jpg歴史と空間を継承したこの場で、過去、現在、未来へと、人々とつながり続ける想いを込めて、人々の時とともに咲き続ける花の作品です。 平面的だとされる伝統的な日本の美術には、西洋の遠近法とは違った、空間の論理構造があると、チームラボは、考えています。(via http://www.team-lab.net/all/artlist/time_blossoming_flowers.html)
本作品はその考え（私たちは、それを「超主観空間」と呼んでいます）の基、仮想の3次元空間上で立体的に構築した世界を、チームラボが考える日本の伝統的な空間認識の論理構造によって、日本美術的な平面にしています。
そして、本作品は、プログラムによってリアルタイムに描き続けています。 花は、1時間をかけ、咲き渡る量が、だんだんと増えていき、1時間たつ度（それぞれの時間の0分の時）に、咲き渡った花は、一斉に散り花吹雪となります。 作品の世界は、日々のこの場所の日の出と日の入りと連動し、日の出とともに明るくなり、日の入りが近づくと夕焼けになり、そして、夜が深くなるにつれ、暗くなっていきます。 そして、この場所の移り変わる季節に合わせて、咲いていく花々も、日本のその季節の花々へと刻々と変わっていきます。
Showcased at DX3 2014 by Thirdshelf, this entire store was built in only 24 hours, and integrated some of the world's most advanced retail technologies, including iBeacons, digital tablets, mobile POS, transparent LED screens and more.(via https://vimeo.com/88494564)
Experimental Parisian outfit Le Laboratoire has created the oPhone, a handheld device that allows a user to combine aromas and send their composition as a message. Upon arriving at another user’s device, this message will recreate the odor for for the recipient to smell. Visitors to the Wired Conference in October 2013 had the opportunity to try out the oPhone, which can currently create over 350 different aromas.(via http://techno-bitz.com/2014/03/17/forget-texts-you-can-now-send-smells/)
Introducing, the World's First Smart Food Scale. Our Bluetooth Enabled Smart Food Scale helps you set goals for calorie and nutritional well being by automatically tracking what you eat.(via http://smartdietscale.com/how-it-works/)
Smart Diet Scale Pro
Smart Diet Scale Pro is a dual functioning smart scale. It displays and tracks all the nutritional information of your meal right on the scale. You can also send this information to your tablet, computer, laptop or smart phone. The Smart Diet Scale allows you to keep track of your daily, weekly or monthly goals by graphically displaying your nutritional and calorie intake.
Finally, the Smart Diet Scale Pro has a large, verified food and restaurant database that makes calorie tracking incredibly easy. You can use this database to track and measure what you eat by logging past meals, imputing custom foods or searching by brands.
Mission
To help fight and control diabetes, obesity and childhood obesity world wide.
-Save billions on health medical costs.
-Save millions of people’s lives
-Total wellness.
-Healthier people: healthier lives.
-With its patented technology the Smart Diet Scale is in a strong position to capitalize on this incredibly massive worldwide market.
As promised, Google is sending out Project Tango prototypes to developers as we speak. In fact one developer, Omar Soubra, already posted some pictures of the device along with videos. Being involved with 3D scanners in the past, Omar says that Project Tango “is a bit like magic.” Google is shipping the Tango prototype in a white cardboard box, along with a USB 3.0 cable, USB 2.0 cable, 2 chargers, and a quick-start instruction guide. The phone itself has both a USB 3.0 port and a USB 2.0 port for whatever reason. Remember, you can usually plug a USB 2.0 cable into one side of a USB 3.0 port.(via & more http://wescomputing.com/?p=31611)
Pepsi Max brings you the Unbelievable.(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9rf9GmYpM#t=80)
Unbelievable feats and experiences created for you by Pepsi Max
Pepsi Max surprise commuters with an 'unbelievable' augmented reality experience at a bus shelter on New Oxford Street in London.
Watch their reactions as unbelievable scenarios unfold before their very eyes; from a giant robot crashing through the street to a passer by being abducted by flying saucers.
To witness more unbelievable feats, subscribe to the Pepsi Max channel www.youtube.com/pepsimax
(via & more http://www.seemoreinteractive.com/blog/2014/03/21/sensory-marketing)Times are changing and now customers are more inclined to make purchases online rather than buy from brick-and-mortar stores.Online businesses can provide the customers with a huge collection of apparels and that too at competitive prices. This is not possible for the brick-and-mortar retail businesses as they have cost and space limitations. However, there is something through which traditional retailers can provide the customers a pleasant, unique and exciting shopping experience, which online retailers cannot, and that is sensory factors. With sensory marketing, retailers can take full advantage of the physical presence of the customers by providing them with sensory experiences. The purchase decision of the consumers can be influenced by using five senses with qualitative assessments and emotions.
Read more: http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2014/03/13/droiders-presents-new-surgical-application-pairing-google-glass%E2%84%A2-and-augmented-reality#ixzz2w98monDPDroiders, an official Google Glass applications development start-up, today launched MedicAR, a new application which combines augmented reality and Google Glass™ to improve the simulation and teaching of certain procedures in surgery and patient care. The MedicAR application also represents a potential new aid to improve safety issues in surgical interventions, especially for common procedures among junior surgeons and even for uncommon ones among experts.During a recent demonstration, Dr. Homero Rivas, assistant professor of surgery (digestive surgery) and director of innovative surgery at Stanford University, connected the wearable device from Google to Droiders’ MedicAR application, and using an anatomical human model, performed an open reduction and internal fixation of a left complex clavicular fracture. The demonstration took place in the Goodman Simulation Center at Stanford. A video of the demonstration can be viewed here: http://video.droiders.com/medias/34o9w1lbdl
Join Kika Rocha as she gets the perfect red carpet updo hair with Matrix Artistic Director Ammon Carver! Learn More about Matrix Class for Glass here: http://www.matrix.com/classforglass.(via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JphWYJwdcfs#t=125)
It seems that Chinese manufacturer OPPO is really trying to build up the hype around its upcoming Find 7 smartphone. This close to the scheduled unveiling, the company has started sending out invitations to Chinese media and bloggers that isn't what you'd call conventional. OPPO is hardly the first one to send out an unorthodox format for an invitation, and it's unlikely that it will be the last. Rival manufacturer Vivo also played up its XPlay 3S event by utilizing a bit of Augmented Reality (AR) in their invitation. OPPO's version is somewhat not as sophisticated, but it isn't less fancy and definitely more bulky.(via http://androidcommunity.com/oppo-sends-out-gimmicky-invitations-for-find-7-event-20140311/)
