(via YouTube by suranga81 )EyeRing is a wearable intuitive interface that allows a person to point at an object to see or hear more information about it. We came up with the idea of a micro camera worn as a ring on the index finger with a button on the side, which can be pushed with the thumb to take a picture or a video that is then sent wirelessly to a mobile phone to be analyzed. The user receives information about the object in either auditory or visual form. Future versions of our proposed system may include more sensors to allow non-visual data capture and analysis. This finger-worn configuration of sensors opens up a myriad of possible applications for the visually impaired as well as the sighted.
(via YouTube by Amutsuar )Augmented Reality application for iPhone, iPad, iPod and Android Device
More info at www.amutsu.com
For our graduation project we are experimening with augmented reality. This is a first concept video.
A short video showcasing the Augmented Reality features used as part of the Clearing Newspaper during the Bournemouth University 2012 Clearing campaign.
(via YouTube by AurasmaLite )Love and Theft promoted their album release (CDs available in Best Buy) with augmented reality print ads in several publications including Country Weekly.
By utilising multi marker recognition Kudan have developed the worlds first mobile based Augmented Reality DJ Music Mash Up experience.
Like what you see and want to learn more about cutting edge Augmented Reality technology? Visit Kudan The Augmented Reality Agency http://kudan.eu
CPEU2 Create Your First Augmented Reality App - Fernando Gallego
COVER Magazine has debuted this awesome augmented reality campaign in their monthly magazine. Every copy of this month’s magazine will contain a supplement entitled “Augmented Shopping”, full of junaio-powered extras that offer exclusive fashion content.
After downloading the junaio app, users can launch the “COVER Augmented Shopping” channel in junaio by searching on the search screen or by using visual search on any of the images form the AR Scan Screen.
(via & more http://junaio.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/read-with-junaio-cover-to-cover/)
"LiveAction AR"とは、 実写コンテンツ(人など)をどの方向から見てもまるでその場にいるかのように表現する事ができる新開発の「3D実写AR表現技術」です。既存のARでは、3D CGか2Dの写真やビデオをコンテンツとして重畳するものが大半でした。よって、そういった既存のAR技術を用いて人などの実写コンテンツを表示すると、のっぺりと平面的
に見えてしまい、その場にいるかのように表示することが困難でした。LiveAction ARは表現系の技術であり、画像認識・空間認識などの認識系の部分はソニーの統合型拡張現実感技術"SmartAR"を利用しております。
(via AppStore http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/philau-mobile/id546526456?mt=8)Interact with Philadelphia University right from the palm of your hand. From prospective students and their families to current students, alumni, faculty and staff, and industry partners, mobile users who are on campus or on-the-go will enjoy the convenience of anytime, anywhere access to a number of PhilaU resources. With PhilaU Mobile, you’ll have instant access to University news and events, a faculty and staff directory, course information, athletics schedules and scores, videos, photo galleries and an interactive map of campus that works with your mobile device to track your location and deliver detailed building information.
(via YouTube by alonmelchner )ספר ראשון בסדרת הפופים - ספרים המתעוררים לחיים מבית WakingApp היוצרת ומפתחת סדרת ספרים ומוצרים המתעוררים לחיים באמצעים דיגיטליים בטכנולוגיות זיהוי תמונה מתקדמות ומציאות רבודה (Augmented Reality). הספרים נרשמו כפטנט על ידי המייסד והיזם אלון
Here’s an interesting approach to Augmented Reality marketing: turn hats into Zombie heads.
The Zaphat (pronounced like Zap Hat, not Zafat) is a new line of fashion apparel where the logo on the accoutrement acts as the target for an iOS/Android app that uses Augmented Reality to transform the wearer into an avatar of their choice.
In other words, when you wear a special hat, people can look at you with an app and see a Zombie instead of your head and then take a picture of you.
This takes personal branding to a new level and is meant to be a fun experience and a way to create images for your social network.
As long as the hat is comfortable, stylish and competitively priced I find it hard to see what’s not to like here. Being able to make you look like a Zombie is icing on the cake.
The Zaphat (and accompanying app) all developed by Zappar, could easily be popular in youth markets, and is obviously expandable to different pieces of clothing, allowing for an entire doppelganger wardrobe to be associated with any clothing line. That’s an interesting idea.
(via http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/20/the-zaphat-can-turn-you-into-a-zombie-sorta/)
Baker Brothers online store specializes in the higher grades of diamonds (http://www.bakerbrothersdiamonds.com). Wide range of services, including carat club and personal shopper makes the brand very competitive and desirable for many buyers.
Visit onvert.com for demos, tutorials and to create your own.
http://onvert.com
Award-winning AR platform by UK creative company, http://harmony.co.uk
(via YouTube by onvertAR )
(via YouYube by sdklab)July/August Cover
There’s something startling and incredible about aiming your smartphone at a painting and watching the man in it come to life. Everything else in the frame looks the way it always does — your desk cluttered with Post-It notes and pens, your glass of water sweating in the August heat — but the painted man has passed through some invisible filter and is now moving and talking and even pouring himself a drink. Is this really your office, or have you somehow been transported into Harry Potter’s Gryffindor House?
As global head of innovation and partnerships atAurasma, Matt Mills oversees the company’s ongoing efforts to augment reality. Launched last summer, Aurasma and its users have created numerous video, music and 3-D animation “auras,” including a map of the Olympic Stadium in London that, when viewed through a smartphone,offered a 3-D exploration of the park.
Mills spoke with us about the remarkable ways he’s seen people use Aurasma, his company’s achievements in the last year and the future of augmented reality.
What is augmented reality?
Technically speaking, looking through one of those old kaleidoscopes is augmenting reality. Anytime you are changing the way that the world looks or enhancing the world through some thing, you are augmenting it. It’s a relatively broad description. Of course, the way that people think of it in our modern world, it’s using some sort of technology device to gather information that exists somewhere and bring it into the real world in an extremely convenient way.
(via & more http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/q-a-matt-mills-aurasmas-global-head-of-innovation/8631)
This Video show you how you can use reaxios to made an AR-Shoes Configurator.
Daubit Programmierung Service GmbH develops Apps for Smartphones.
クアルコム社のジェイライト氏へのインタビュー。なぜAndroidチップのスナップドラゴンを開発し、提供しているクアルコム社が、ARのSDKを無料で提供するのか…などなど興味深い内容だ。
CBR spoke to Qualcomm about the company’s intensive R&D work on Augmented Reality, and what the future might hold for enterprise.
Jay Wright, senior director of business management at Qualcomm, oversees the company's Augmented Reality programme, which is positioning itself as a new high-tech way for marketers and advertisers to reach consumers.
See CBR's feature story here for a quick backgrounder about Augmented Reality (AR), for those that aren't familiar with the concepts involved.
Jay Wright, senior director of business management, Qualcomm
Why has a mobile phone chip designer decided to become so interested in Augmented Reality, which is really a software application?
"Qualcomm started in AR about 3 years ago. Most of the things we look at in R&D are intended to drive additional computing requirements - we want to find applications that require more and more computing power, to put behind our primary business, which is chipsets."
"[AR] looked like something that would drive future computing power, because it's extremely computationally intensive."
Much of Qualcomm's focus has been less on GPS and compass based AR, but use of mobile devices' onboard cameras. It effectively operates as a 'computer eye' spotting objects, which it then overlays images in real time.
"You're effectively processing video streams in real time and looking for these objects frame by frame, while comparing them to the database of objects - which is hugely intensive."
(via & more http://www.cbronline.com/news/qa-qualcomm-in-augmented-reality-for-enterprise-200812)
(via & more http://www.qrcodepress.com/magic-mirror-to-bring-augmented-reality-to-retail/8511523/)Augmented reality may solve some problems in e-commerce
E-commerce has emerged as one of the most prominent aspects of the retail industry. Retailers have been making more of an effort to connect with online consumers in recent years, recognizing that these people represent a wide and diverse audience. As retailers begin to focus more on e-commerce, they are becoming more interested in the use of augmented reality. Many retailers face a simple, but important problem in that a significant portion of online consumers will not make purchases of items they cannot try on first. Augmented reality may be capable of solving this problem.
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