Translate text in realtime on the iphone with Word Lens: a form of augmented reality Word Lens just came out today and the buzz is pretty crazy. The fact it was on CNN could have something to do with it. The app is pretty darn sweet, much like PicTranslator except it works with live video. In other words as you look at the text on your phone, the letters are… Read More
Augmenting the Reality of the Black Eyed Peas Saw this poster for the Black Eyed Peas and it didn’t work. As an augmented reality developer and fan of BEP, I had to fix this. Here is the video I made of Augmenting the Black Eyed Peas Time. Android apps used in this example are Google Goggles and Junaio from Metaio.… Read More
Shopping around for uses with Augmented Reality So I was recently exposed to the post Augmented Reality Finds a Place to Fit: Shopping! The article states, “Two recent AR implementations show promise, however, by adding value and actually demonstrating how useful the technology can be.” The author of the post is referring to Converse’s Sampler application for AppleiOS devices and a TryOnBathingSuit… Read More
Virtual voice tour of hawaii through the iphone ipad This is cool. Nothing new as far as technology, but finding hidden places; like less know beaches or a small store or other lessor know gem can be hard, so the application of a virtual tour guild would be pretty useful here. It’s hitting the apple store Dec 8, just in time for the Hawaii… Read More
The cutest Augmented Reality pet. EyePet is just the beginning If any of you read my articles for iphonelife magazine, or read this post from awhile back, you know that I said one of big things we have to look forward to are virtual pets we can play with because they will be able to respond the environment around us. I can imagine an iphone… Read More
Dont like that AR app on your iphone? Then make your own! Augmented reality apps on mobile has been news off and on over the last few months. There are have been a series of cool apps, and I even posted part of an article I write for iphoneLife here. But even with the parade of cool new apps, we have only just touched on the possibilites. … Read More
Augmented Reality on your arm! That’s right, carry that 3D animated character around with you! Course, this is not a real tattoo, but instead just good pen work, but really, you do not need much graphic skilz. Although viewing AR through graphic code recognition is still in its infancy, its coming into play fast, and with the new crop of… Read More
RC helicoptor (drone) control using the iphone with remote camera This is so cool! I’m not at #CES yet but I will check this out. The video says it all, but basically this is a quadricoptor that you not only control using the tilt on the iphone, but also have a camera view ON the flyer itself! Normally, that would be cool enough, but wait,… Read More
Top 10 Augmented Reality apps for mobile; iphone, Android, etc.. I’ve been working on an article for iphoneLife on and off about the best Augmented Reality application for the iphone. I have also been checking out Android AR apps as well. And so far, there are very few good apps out there that do anything more then provide 3D search of sorts. But, some apps… Read More
Layar 3.0 is out, more Augmented for your Reality. Awhile back I wrote a piece on Augmented Reality and hypothesized on various application I could see coming the in the future. One of those application was being able to see new building design at the actual construction site. Well, Layer has released 3.0 and what do they have as the first bit of eye… Read More
What is Augmented Reality on mobile devices? I wrote this as a companion piece for an article that may show up in the next issue of iphoneLife, but I thought I would include it here and now since AR is getting more relevant. Also, one of the things I said NEEDS to part of the AR toolkit for iphone (mobile) got a… Read More
Augmented Reality app Layar is finally on the iPhone! Just saw this via a tweet. I’m going to load it play with it later, but here is the link. http://layar.com/layar-is-in-the-iphone-app-store/… Read More
More Augmented Reality apps for the iphone; Wikitude and Cyclopedia RWW broke a story with new AR apps for the iphone. I have not downloaded and played with them myself, but they look great, and its the next level of AR (for the iphone, since Android has had this for a bit) that we have been waiting for. This is a ‘killer app’ for AR… Read More
Augment Reality App for the iPhone powered by Bing Just saw this on Techcrunch. It looks pretty cool although I could not get it to work quite right. Could be a GPS issue. Anyway, I think this is just the beginning of a flood of location / orientation away apps that are on the way. And the fact this is using Bing is quiet… Read More
Android comes back with another cool traffic AR app I just wrote about the first iphone AR app to show up, and now here is ANOTHER Android AR app. This gives you traffic cams for Toronto. Not sure if there is one for San Francisco, but I’ll look into it. Im not sure how useful this app is, but its clear we are about… Read More
Augmented Reality Apps for iphone not coming till 3.1. Gezz Read this in the LA Times. No Augmented Reality Apps till iphone 3.1 comes out. Why? Because part of what make this work is a function called ‘camera viewer’. This is a ‘restricted’ function and we should be playing with it. But, when 3.1 comes out, we can! huh? What difference does that make? Sure… Read More