ARDefender is a Augmented Reality game that seems to be a load of fun.
It is a marker based camera view game. The target is to destroy an army that attacks a tower which you control using your iPhone.
Have a look at the gameplay in the movie.
SAP has talked about a proof of concept about AR a while back.
The application is called Augmented Explorer [Prototype].
The prototype was developed using the Layar application.
But from the new screenshots
I can’t find a Layar reference anymore. [link]
It seems to be working on iPad/iPhone, hope to see more of it soon.
ING netherlands has created a desktop AR experience in preperation of SAIL Amsterdam.
Telegraaf.nl readers get a sneak preview of tomorrow’s ING Pirate Island. The treasure map of the ING Pirate Island is published that morning in the Telegraaf, people can use it to let Pirate Island come to life. Hold the map for the webcam on your computer and take a visit to the island http://www.ing.nl/pirateneiland3d comes to life in 3D. A special experience to have stuck in the mood for a ‘real’ visit to the ING Pirate Island during SAIL 2010 in Amsterdam. The treasure map is also downloadable from Friday, July 23 at the special site of SAIL-ING.
ING Pirateneiland 3D
ING & SAIL
SAIL 2010 Amsterdam
Ben & Jerry’s has launched a Augmented Reality view called Moo Vision in there existing iPhone application using the Unifeye Mobile SDK for the AR. The current packaging is used as a marker to let it come to live.
The following video shows indoor navigation/information application Junaio which is demoed at KIOSK EUROPE EXPO 2010.
It is build using the UNIFEYE MOBILE 2.1 SDK from Unifeye Mobile.
This is the new awesome new way to test-drive an Olympus PEN E-PL1 in Augmented Reality.
http://www.getolympus.com/PEN3d
The Olympus PEN E-PL1 portable camera featuring professional digital single lens reflex (DSLR) image quality, point-and-shoot simplicity and high-definition (HD) video is now available as an Augmented Reality virtual 3D product experience with the PEN.
Visit www.getolympus.com/PEN3d to see how simple and innovative this new hybrid camera really is by virtually test-driving it. Your webcam acts as the cameras lens. As you hold the camera card in front of a webcam and visit the augmented reality site, a dynamic 3D online product experience is launched where you can see yourself, interact with the camera and simulate product features. You can take pictures, shoot video, try the flash, utilize Live Guide, remove the lens and even use a variety of in-camera Art Filters with the virtual PEN, all while manipulating the 3D camera marker in your hands.
Print a PDF of the camera card or simply watch a simulation. You can experience all the functionality of the demo along with narration.
We all have been waiting for this!
At least I was :)
HTML5 and AR would be the ideal combi fro the future. The following example is marker based and will only work in Firefox, Chrome and/or Safari.
Have a look and test it yourself
http://www.onebyonedesign.com/html5/arhtml/
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 ;) ) real soon because of the OpenGS hardware rendering real soon.
Take a look at the video
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.
This video shows several implementations for AR in magazines and TV shows.
