(via YouTube by pddnet)Today on Engineering Newswire, brought to you by PD&D TV, we're building a bionic arm, creating a bladeless ceiling fan, and adding hands-free augmented reality to glasses. This episode features:
•Researchers at the Fraunhofer Center for Organics, Materials and Electronic Devices have spent years designing interactive head mounted displays based on OLED technology that can access augmented reality and enhance the real world with additional visual information.
•The Perceptual Robotics Laboratory in Italy has developed a wearable, mechanical exoskeleton called the Body Extender.
•Nigel Ackland's bionic arm, the bebionic v2 hand from RSLSteeper, has a manually adjustable thumb with two locking positions with an integrated sensor for position detection.
•The PatrolBot, built by software engineer Steve Norris ... in his spare.
•Exhale Fans, a Georgetown, Indiana-based ceiling manufacturer, that is determined to disrupt the fan industry with its innovative, bladeless ceiling fan design.
(via YouTube via Engadgets)Sphero Sharky the Beaver augmented reality app
(via YouTube by Barclaycard)Our free augmented reality iPhone game, "Toys Unleashed", is available on the Apple App store now: http://bit.ly/ToysGame.
You can use your iPhone to play with the animated characters from our TV ad. They will seemingly spring to life in the palm of your hand.
This is the latest Barclaycard game, following the hugely successful "Barclaycard Waterslide" and "Rollercoaster Extreme".
(via YouTube by monacomediaforum)Claire Boonstra (Co-Founder, Layar) talks about how her company is becoming a global leader in mobile augmented reality and interactive print experiences.
(via YouTube by AHAlifedotcom)Watch Shauna Mei, AHAlife Founder & CEO, introduce the first digitally shoppable magazine, produced in partnership with Dwell Magazine and with augmented reality integration technology provided by Layar App Service.
This fall, Dwell and AHAlife launched a co-branded ecommerce website to allow you to shop the pages of Dwell magazine at Dwell.AHAlife.com. The mission is to provide readers with a destination to discover the best the world has to offer in modern home design.
(via YouTube by AdDispatch)Canada Post teamed up with Ad-Dispatch to release an interactive stamp using the power of Augmented Reality to honour the 100th Anniversary of The Calgary Stampede.
Javelin Marketing Group has developed a unique augmented reality experience as part of the 2012 Direct Marketing Educational Foundation's annual award ceremony recently held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
See the full press release: http://javelin.mg/blog/article/pr--javelin-develops-unique-ar-experience
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(via YouTube CDLHandheldAR)Authors:Clemens Arth, Alessandro Mulloni, Dieter Schmalstieg
In this paper, we discuss how the sensors available in modern smartphones can improve 6-degree-of-freedom (6DOF) localization in wide-area environments. In our research, we focus on phones as a platform for largescale Augmented Reality (AR) applications. Thus, our aim is to estimate the position and orientation of the device accurately and fast -- it is unrealistic to assume that users are willing to wait tenths of seconds before they can interact with the application. We propose supplementing vision methods with sensor readings from the compass and accelerometer available in most modern smartphones. We evaluate this approach on a largescale reconstruction of the city center of Graz, Austria. Our results show that our approach improves both accuracy and localization time, in comparison to an existing localization approach based solely on vision. We finally conclude our paper with a real-world validation of the approach on an iPhone 4S.
(via & more YouTube bykrolldesign)A VirtuallisAR (VIRTUALLIS AUGMENTED REALITY) é uma empresa multinacional com mais de 50 profissionais focados em um único objetivo: construir o melhor sistema de conteúdo multimídia promocional na nuvem no mundo usando a Realidade Aumentada.
www.virtuallisar.com.br/Apresentacaovirtuallizar.pdf
(via YouTube by zappartv)Now available at George in the UK. More incredible magic from the Zappar Labs!
(via YouTube by ibutterflysingapore)iButterfly Singapore is a new, fun and entertaining mobile information, content and couponing application we are introducing in Singapore. Through iButterfly, you can catch virtual butterflies and get a chance to win amazing discounts and freebies!
iButterfly Singapore accomplishes this through an innovative combination of three technologies:
1) Augmented reality - for "seeing" virtual butterflies in the real world
2) Motion sensors - for catching the butterflies
3) GPS - for finding butterflies at a location
Download the app now for iPhone and Android at www.ibutterfly.sg!
Catch the latest freebies available at www.facebook.com/ibutterflysingapore!
(via YouTube by mecspa)AReality @ Munich Electronica Exhibition 2012
This was our launch event for Barclaycard's "Toys Unleashed" iPhone game -- which is available on the Apple App store now:http://bit.ly/ToysGame
Graffiti artist, Lee Baker, painted a giant hand on a wall in Shoreditch and then brought the toys to life via the game.
If you download the free augmented reality game, you can use your iPhone to play with the animated characters from our TV ad. They will seemingly spring to life in the palm of your hand.
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(vai & more YouTube by ARworksReality)ARworks prepared this AR application with 10 different 10-30 sec 3D animations with the Grey advertising agency for their client, Allianz. The task was simple and not unique for the insurance sector: how to present potential home accidents to the target group in a non-frightening way.
Grey built a pop up building in the centre of Budapest, where visitors, with the help of AR, could experience, what kind of small accidents could happen in their home. On arrival, everybody received an iPad - after that they just had to walk around and check different parts of the flat with the tablet. At those points they were shown funny, interesting scenes - potential accidents -, which were happening to the actual objects in the house - but of course, only in augmented reality
(via YouTube by Media4company)Dagblad De Gelderlander is, voor de auto sectie van de krant, een pilot gestart met Augmented Reality (AR). AR maakt een krachtige koppeling tussen print en online media mogelijk. De Gelderlander heeft voor haar lezers een mobiele app gelanceerd die te downloaden is vanuit de Appstore of Google Play.
Media4company heeft in opdracht van De Gelderlander een tutorial video gemaakt waarin doormiddel van onder andere screen captures aan de lezers wordt uitgelegd hoe deze app gedownload en gebruikt kan worden op zowel smartphone als tablet.
http://itersnews.com/?p=17452
Augmented reality, or AR is where real, physical world and virtual world meet. Using a built-in camera of mobile devices like smartphones and tablet PCs, the AR technology allows smartphone users to scan real objects in the physical world to search information about them on the Internet and then see unlimited shapes and sizes of symbols, icons, pictures, texts, even moving video images of virtual world. The working theory is straightforward.
Matt Mills, an inventor of global phenomenon Aurasma AR app, strode on the stage of Tech Plus Forum held in Seoul from Nov. 7 to 8 to demonstrate how his AR app Aurasma works in sync with his iPhone's built-in camera to breathe virtual life into dead objects like portraits or pictures in the physical world. He is head of global marketing of Aurasma, too.
http://itersnews.com/?p=17452
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(via YouTube by NewLookTV)We've brought our windows and stores to life with super cool augmented reality app Blippar! Watch our simple 'How to' with Kelly Brook's first ever beauty range exclusively for New Look and get blipping!
