openAR – Open Augmented Reality

The biggest telco of Japan KDDI has made an AR application that combines UGC and Anime in een real world display.
Check these video’s out.

Posted on June 27th, 2009 under Browser, Camera based, Channel, Platform, Uncategorized. Tags: kddi, sns, ugc, virtual. Comments: None

A tweet from the Wikitude team has come to my attention about the Wimbledon IBM Seer application. The application has been developed by Ogilvy and Mobilizy.
Have a look:

Posted on June 27th, 2009 under Browser, Camera based, Google Android, Platform. Tags: ibm, ogilvy, seer, tennis, wikitude, wimbledon. Comments: None

Yesterday at the terras we did some layar testing.
We where looking at a Android HTC magic phone with the Layar application installed in the Netherlands.
My first findings are that the application could use some tweaking to optimize performance. The sliders to shorten the radar view are unworkable IMO.
But to conclude the findings, I don’t realy [...]

Posted on June 27th, 2009 under Apple iPhone, Browser, Camera based, Channel, Google Android, Nokia Symbian, Platform, Windows Mobile. Tags: android, layar, netherlands, real world, sprxmobile, symbian, utrecht, wikitude, Windows Mobile. Comments: 3

There are several AR twitter users you should follow to keep up to date on AR.
http://twitter.com/LayarMobile
http://twitter.com/Wikitude
http://twitter.com/QiftiMobile
http://twitter.com/Kjeld
This search will also show you nice info
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Augmented+Reality&lang=all
If you know any more then please mention them in the comments and I will ad them to the list in this post.
[update]
http://twitter.com/wikitude/status/2327416225
Thanks @Wikitude !

Posted on June 25th, 2009 under Channel, Uncategorized. Tags: accounts, follow, layar, qifti, sprxmobile, twitter, users, void station, wikitude. Comments: None

Students have made a 3D mobile AR game with the help of Nvidia hardware. The game can be played by moving your mobile device over a game zone which has been outlied on a table.
I will see people playing these types of first-person shooters with the new iPhone 3G S (“S” as in Steve ;) [...]

Posted on June 24th, 2009 under Apple iPhone, Camera based, Games, Marker based, Nvidia, OpenGS. Tags: arhrrrr, game, iphone 3g s, Nvidia, OpenGS. Comments: None

In the following video you can see a realworld marker demo video.
This shows the use of a magazine ad in combination with a special campagne site with the Flash webcam tool.

Posted on June 21st, 2009 under Adobe Flash, Camera based, Marker based. Tags: citroen, flartoolkit, magazine, marker image. Comments: 1

This video shows several implementations for AR in magazines and TV shows.

Posted on June 21st, 2009 under Adobe Flash, Camera based, Marker based, Platform. Tags: magazine, marker image. Comments: None

If you would like to know how one should use AR in and istore enviroment?
Then watch this video by LEGO. Or should I use “réalité augmentée”?

Posted on June 21st, 2009 under Adobe Flash, Camera based, Marker based. Tags: instore, lego, marker. Comments: 1

Here’s a video of what’s possible on the iPhone 3G.
The application is capable of displaying 10 frames per second in live-video realtime tracking.
It was made using version 4.4 of the ARToolkit, created by ARToolworks.
The iPhone 3G S will probably be much faster in rendering the images over the video.

Posted on June 21st, 2009 under Apple iPhone, Camera based, Marker based. Tags: 3g, 3g s, artoolkit, artoolworks, iphone. Comments: None