Augmented Reality Event 2011 video Still recovering from an augmented reality that happened last week. The video footage below shows elements from the Augmented Reality Event (ARE) 2011 in Santa Clara, CA on May 17-18. This was the 2nd annual event of the largest conference dedicated to the business of augmented reality. Start-ups, developers, mobile and hardware companies along with… Read More
Augmenting the Facts .. the cake is a lie !Warning, this is a rant! With the growing interest in augmented reality, I continue to notice where presenters, bloggers, researchers, and other have misinformed their audience about the subject. To use the most generic of references, “Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or an indirect view of a physical, real-world environment… Read More
Layar for the iPhone is finally in the App Store Talk about taking forever; but Layar is finally out. If you do not know; Layar was one of the first Augmented Reality Apps out there but not for iphone. And funny enough, never saw it on Cydia. Well no matter; its in the App store. Most likely for 4.0++ but I have not had a… Read More
Best Tech Wishes in 2011! 2010 was a great year for the more innovative technologies that interest me and 2011 is looking to be even better. It is a few hours until midnight and before I dash out for New Year Eve, I felt a look at the 2011 tech crystal ball was in order. Here are my top three… Read More
Augmented Reality is getting hype, but is it real? Forrester thinks.. meh. Most of the points in the Forrester report is for the mostly spot on, and this is coming from someone who created Virtual Reality Apps back in the beginning and knows what overhype looks like. I think a good definition of what Augmented Reality for mobile is; should be considered. Back in mid 2009 I… Read More
Hands on Lego Augmented Reality The augmented-reality (AR) “Digital Box” application for Lego made by augmented reality company Metaio came out in Lego stores world wide earlier this year. I got the chance to play with this for the first time at a Lego store at Northpark Mall in Dallas, Texas. See video here Augmented Reality Legos. Hold up selected boxes… 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
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
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
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