AEC Hackathon – Where Techies and Builders Change the World I feel it right to be upfront and say we are about to go on a journey. The matter at hand is something that has become very close to me and it directly affects anyone that lives and works in a house or building. In a few weeks there is going to be a first… Read More
IKEA uses Augmented Reality. It is highly effective Augmented Reality (AR) has been around for a long time, but it has yet to really find a local role in a major vender. That has changed. IKEA has a new app that work on both iOS and Android that will allow you check out various IKEA furniture as it would look in your place.… Read More
OculAR – Displaying Oculus Rift Dev Kit Info in Augmented Reality So I had some time on my hands with Qualcomm’s new SDK for their Vuforia augmented reality platform and thought this would be a good app to build since I am asked about the Oculus Rift headset when I show it around.… Read More
Leap Motion Augmented Reality Demo with the Metaio SDK I expect to see examples of the Leap Motion with augmented reality, and the team at Metaio hasn’t disappointed me. They posted this video of an augmented reality character controlled with a Leap Motion. Simple, but cool.… Read More
Metaio creates AR Engine, the first augmented reality chipset Metaio, a German based augmented reality software company, has stepped into the world of hardware with the announcement today the world’s first augmented reality hardware chipset. Called “AR Engine”, this development comes with an agreement from ST-Ericsson that will lead the integration of the chipset in ST-Ericsson’s new mobile platforms. With this new level of computing… Read More
SimLibrary – When Danish Libraries Go Digital Over the past few years I have been engaging a lot more with various entities in Denmark. One such group that has recently caught my attention is the Danish library system. Now I remember coming across this report years back about the city of Aarhus Main Library’s Transformation Lab. Recently Dave Arendash and I were… Read More
First Choice Cola’s Free Ride – Augmented Reality Facebook game So I am visiting the Netherlands and got a chance to check out this augmented reality Facebook application called Free Ride. It launched last week and was developed for YoungWorks by my friends at The Young Generation. My Dutch isn’t the greatest, actually I don’t know any, so expect a follow up interview explaining more about… Read More
McDonald’s: TrackMyMacca’s Augmented Reality App Here’s an interesting AR app that launched today in Australia. The TrackMyMacca’s app takes Australians ‘behind the scenes’ of their food, showing them where their food has come from. I find this to be a great concept in adding transparency to any supply chain, but feel that the information for US McDonald’s woud have an… Read More
Introducing the new Metaio Creator with Cloud Capabilities This just popped up in my email. More public service announcement more then anything. 🙂 Check it out. If you are building AR apps, you will want to know bout this. Create Augmented Reality experiences in minutes The Metaio Creator is the only augmented reality content management tool available. If you use augmented reality content… Read More
From VentureBeat, PAR Works ushers in maturity of AR I was made aware of this post on VentureBeat yesterday, PAR Works ushers in the maturity of augmented reality, and immediately got captivated by the title. As a person in the field, I have seen how augmented reality has been out in the mainstream for a few years and the AR experiences now don’t seem… Read More
The Best Gaming VR headset, HMD, ever. or at least so far.. The Oculus This is a kickstarter project. That means its not available to the general consumer market yet, but if you are not afraid of a little DYI, its a pretty good deal with pretty good specs. I used the VFX1 back in the day when I was building VR worlds using VRML and the Quake 1… Read More
Augmented Reality date with a Japanese Pop Icon Using what looks like an Asus motion sensor and a pair of Vuzix video glasses, a Japanese hacker has created an augmented reality application that allows one to interact with Hatsune Miku, a Japanese virtual pop icon.… Read More
Clang!! Very cool kickstarter video for a proper sword playing game with a Gabe Newell cameo no less First off, the idea. If you have ever played any sword playing game you know it pretty much sucks. Triggers for a sword? Really? I was hoping that the Wii or perhaps the xBox would make this better. But not. So the guys at the Subutai Corporation decided to do something about this by creating a… Read More
Qumarion mannequin input device for intuitive 3D manipulation and manga, anime creation. Here is one for manga artists, anime and character animators, a posable mannequin input device for intuitive 3D manipulation called Qumarion. The model uses 32 sensors across 16 body joints to translate the statue’s pose to the computer screen simply by bending limbs, and a 120 frames per second sample rate over USB means that poses are mirrored… Read More
Augmented Reality Sandbox. Create a topo the natural way. The specific use case is limited. You can created an realtime interactive topo by moving sand around within a sandbox. However, if you extend this technology, this is where it gets interesting. Say for example, you place two beams next to each other, then ‘fuse’ those beams in AR. You can now do stress tests… Read More
Augmented Reality Body Browser I am here at the Augmented Reality Event 2012 in Santa Clara and saw this rather cool demo from Daqri, a southern California augmented reality dev shop. This augmented reality application that runs on the iPad and I will call an AR body browser, allows users the ability to turn on and off various layers… Read More
Google’s Augmented Reality Glasses Yesterday Google went public with its plans to offer augmented-reality glasses, which it’s calling Project Glass. In the concept video they released, the glasses interacts with what you’re seeing and saying, provides many features of a smartphone including a planner, navigation system, camera and more. They made a previous announcement that these glasses would be available… Read More
The World is Our Playground Charting unknown territory is definitely nothing new for the Danes. Danish companies such as Vestas, Lego, and Unity3D are conquering their industries in a way that would make their viking ancestors proud. Now entering this group is Playingmondo, a platform for creating and interacting with location based experiences. For those not familiar with location-based services,… Read More
Convert your minecraft modes to 3D printer friendly format. #Awesome! Perfect! Have a great minecraft property you have lovingly shaped and worked on? Why not make it a real model using a 3D printer! Totally! The WINS of minecraft just continue to pill up. I remember first playing with it when it first came out thinking, what a cool little indie game. Never would I… Read More
Unboxing the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and augmented reality I just received my Sony Ericsson Xperia Play smartphone. This is the first PlayStation certified Android smartphone, hence it is also known as the PlayStation phone. I won the phone from a party Qualcomm had during the Game Developers Conference 2011 for their new Snapdragon platform. I haven’t won anything like this before so I… Read More