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

Jbeil, located in Lebanon, is the city that every year in July holds the prestigious International Festival of Byblos. The event concentrates relevant international music and cultural artists. I2CAT in the framework of the Mediterranean Cooperation Project I AM (International Augmented Med) attended the festival during the 25th , 26th and 27th of July, jointly with other partners of the project Consortium, introducing the activities and developments of the Audiovisual Unit that have been done within the I AM project, and those that will keep carrying out until the end of the project (in 2015).

The main objective of the project is to create an ICT-Tourism cross-sector for the enhancement of natural and cultural heritage sites. The Audiovisual Unit takes part in one pilot based on the archaeological emplacement of Empúries (Costa Brava). The objective is to improve the user's experience bringing the visitor, through the use of mobile devices and the Augmented Reality, into the colonial Greek and Roman period. Thanks to this applications, visitors will be able to see three-dimensional representations of the antique temples and ruins of Empúries, related images, videos, extra information and audio, among others.

We checked out the 2014 International Toy Fair in New York City to see some of the latest in odd, cool, and downright strange toys on the market.

The Mopar Augmented Reality App can help you give your Ram Truck a Mopar makeover. The app lets you customize your Ram Truck by choosing different Mopar accessories and viewing them before you buy them. www.mopar.com/ramtruck

The Pixxie #MappaMi are in lots of places around Milan, they love romping around the city and you have to catch them to master the secrets that they hide. Just one problem: the Pixxie #MappaMi don't respect the laws of physics and, therefore, are invisible to the human eye. However, with Grabbers you can locate them all around you and discover the hidden parts of MIlan! From carnival time to the summer solstice don't miss #MappaMi -- the urban hunt organised by the municipality of Milan! 

1. Capture the Pixxies around the city and take pictures to share on the social networks.
2. Capture the families of Pixxies and obtain the secret stories of Milan to explore mysterious places in the city!
3. Challenge your friends in the ratings: collect all the Pixxies to unlock the levels and take advantage of special offers in the Milan Official Store. 

Do you want to have access to hidden places? Share your photos with #MappaMi and, each month, the best will be chosen and awarded a guided tour of an "Aperto per Voi" (Open for You) location.
Download the free Grabbers app
- iTunes: http://bit.ly/mappami-ios
- Google Play: http://bit.ly/mappami-android

Walking around the streets searching for a place to eat will be no hassle when a head-mounted display (HMD) becomes affordable and ubiquitous. Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) developed K-Glass, a wearable, hands-free HMD that enables users to find restaurants while checking out their menus. If the user of K-Glass walks up to a restaurant and looks at the name of the restaurant, today's menu and a 3D image of food pop up. The Glass can even show the number of tables available inside the restaurant. K-Glass makes this possible because of its built-in augmented reality (AR) processor. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-02-low-powered-high-speed-head-mounted-augment-reality.html#jCp

Linkify Announces General Availability for Cutting-Edge SDK That Enables Mobile App Developers to Harness Advances in Semantic Augmented Reality

Tokyo (PRWEB) February 20, 2014

Linkify, an innovative startup aiming to change the way people search for information, announced the general availability of its SDK for mobile application developers to download and use. Available immediately, the new SDK supports both the Android and iOS platforms. Linkify offers developers a different approach to mobile search that delivers users relevant results faster. Instead of submitting a traditional word-based query via a search engine, Linkify’s technology is able to recognize, extract and convert “things of interest” to a user and connect them with relevant information from the web. With its new SDK, Linkify is the first to reach an important milestone that the young startup has coined “Semantic AR” (augmented reality).

We've infused the Creator with our knowledge and experience to better help the publishing industry easily and quickly add innovation to print. The new tabbed interface makes navigating between editing, testing, collaborating and promoting campaigns much more intuitive and simple. On the redesigned Campaign Overview screen, a bird's-eye view of all of your campaigns helps provide the most information possible at a glance. A feed of info cards in this section displays personalized tips, suggestions and helpful information to make the Interactive Print creation process smooth and easy. ------- See more on the Layar blog -- 

It was 1993, I had recently graduated from high school (I know, I’m outing my age right now), and “Creep” was the feel-sad hit of the summer. I may never have become an ultimate fan of the band, but Radiohead was fairly innovative and ahead of its time. They’ve always held a spot in my heart for that.

PolyFauna is an app that the band recently launched in collaboration with art design studioUniversal Everything. This app was brought about as an inspiration to Radiohead’s 2011 release “Bloom” from “The King of Limbs” album…

Users are presented with a visually immersive computer generation of a simplistic, shadowy landscape. Using augmented reality, you can look around the area by moving your device around. Even if that is all you do, the app is impressive. However, you can also create your own shapes by dragging your finger across the screen. As you cut into the landscape with your swipe, it will transform into another shape. Thick lines turn into striped triangles. Swirls convert into squiggly lines. Your shapes don’t sit still either. They will come to life and swim around in their new environment.

Apresento Trymax um aplicativo que busca revolucionar a impressão e o marketing tradicional, oferecendo o poder de transformar cada impresso em uma experiência digital interativa. Esta tecnologia chamada de Realidade Aumentada permite que desde uma imagem seja possível acessar a conteúdos virtuais com o uso de smartphones e tablets. Esta tecnologia reconhece imagens (sem precisar código algum) para logo acrescentar conteúdos virtuais interativos sobre a mesma, com efeito, 3D em tempo real.

In the future, some people will choose to spend Valentine's Day alone, having virtual sex with a 3D avatar with the help of a fully responsive robotic assistant. And by the future, I mean maybe next year. Intrepid horndog hackers can do it right now.

Tenga is a Japanese manufacturer of disposable male sex toys—they make cylindrical "masturbation aids" that somehow don't seem as repulsive as the Fleshlight (perhaps mostly because they're not called a fleshlight). They're also promoting a jerry-rigged amalgam of software and robotics that's easily the closest you can come to having physical sex with a video game.

At a tech conference last fall, Tenga unveiled a crude contraption that allowed volunteers to participate in a simulation wherein they received sexual favors from an anime character through virtual reality goggles. Since then, they've updated the software and the graphics of the simulator, and are continuing to promote robot-assisted virtual sex.

"I think in the future, the virtual real will become more real than actual real sex," Tenga CEO Tsuneki Sato told me. He'd come by the Motherboard office to demonstrate the "future of masturbation," as he put it. "That's our slogan." He laughed. 

Handcraft augmented scuplture shown at Mimesi Festival, Univ. LA SAPIENZA Laboratorio MLAC ForteFanfulla and Opening Porta Futuro.Follow StudioAira on fbhttps://www.facebook.com/faceairaWebsitehttp://www.studioaira.com/

Promotional video for Union J's brand new video booth app. Available worldwide for iOS in the Apple app store and Android in the Google Play store. Bring the boys to life wherever you are and jump into the video to be presented with a rose or receive a kiss.

For more information, please contact gznshow@gmail.com, skype:MichelleChan121 or visit our website www.n-show.com.cn.Through N-show Virtual Dressing Room, shoppers can : -Virtually try on a single article of clothing or a whole outfit with accessories in photo-realistic 3D at lighting speed and ease.-Instantly gather or swap items and sizes from multiple floors or departments with neither customer nor clerk trekking through the building.-Shop with friends via complete social media integration and real-time sharing of looks across the Internet.For retailers, N-show Virtual Dressing Room:-Provides valuable shopper metrics and reporting including how many times an item is tried on and how many friends a shopper showed it to.-Customizes the dressing room experience with shopper personalization features..-Used as an interactive eye-catching shopping display to lure passers by to a specific store.

A showcase of some of the group's most recent projects

Our Valentine's Day party was pretty typical: First we played Valentine Jingo (like bingo), ate too many cookies, and then exchanged our cards. But....Today's party ended like no other! Using the Heart Cam app my students got to take a look at what a real heart looks like. This clever app uses augmented reality to create the illusion of an open chest cavity and a beating heart. Using the printed trigger page, the students were initially shocked at what they saw, but then had fun zooming in and taking a good look at what their own heart might look like.

初音ミクと一緒に遊べる夢のゲームが完全版の「2.0」となって遂に登場！Smart­AR®で現れる初音ミクと、自分の家でエアホッケーを楽しめる！練習を重ねて、自分だ­けの初音ミクを育て上げよう！「2.0」ではバリエーション豊富なコスチュームも用意­されているぞ！

During this school year, I have really enjoyed going over to Kaechele Elementary School about once a month to help teach and integrate the Augmented Reality App, Aurasma into some classrooms.

Mrs. Hyman, the school librarian and information specialist, took the same Flat Stanley Project that most schools do to the next level. As usual, each student had to design their own Flat Self. This is where the similarities ended. Mrs. Hyman had each student create a video including the following:
1. Introduce themselves and their flat self
2. Go through their winter break adventure sequentially, showing their pictures and drawings
3. Wrap it up with a conclusion

After the students completed their projects, Mrs. Hyman used the studio.aurasma program to make the over 100 auras for all the 2nd grade students. The coolest part about this project is that Mrs. Hyman has connected with the infamous Shannon Miller, Teacher Librarian & Technology Integrationist, from the Van Meter School in Iowa. This amazing librarian is completing the same project with her students. Once completed the schools are going to send their Aura Filled Flat Stanleys to each other for the students to scan and meet each other.

Flat Stanley Aurasma from Tyler Hart on Vimeo.

(via http://theglobalclassroomproject.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/flat-stanley-aurasma-project/)

The new Vuforia SDK 2.8 delivers a feature called Extended Tracking enabling you to build apps that deliver continuous visual recognition even when the target leaves the field of view. Also in this release: simpler development with Java APIs, cloud-based content storage, and compatibility with Unity 4.3.

For developers looking to learn more about the Qualcomm Vuforia platform, visit the Vuforia Developer website at https://developer.vuforia.com/ For support issues, visit our Support Forum at https://developer.vuforia.com/forum