As always, here the augmented reality news stories and tidbits, I didn’t have the time (or will) to cover this week:ISMAR11 call for papers is online, abstracts due May 11thThe Guardian asks what is mobile AR for, and whether we should look for an augm…
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Safe for Humans is a really smart mobile app concept that harness augmented reality to make people more aware of car accidents involving pedestrians. As you can see in the video below, it will use “natural” markers and probably GPS. However the big cha…
There are a few topics that I’ve been planning to write about for months (if not years). One of them is the role sports enthusiasts (joggers, swimmers, bicycles fanatics) may have in the adoption of augmented reality head up displays. The recent onslau…
It’s Sunday, and here are some links from around the augmented sphere:Videos of ISMAR 2010′s keynotes were recently uploaded to Youtube:Ron Azuma: Beyond pop-ups and moving trainsHirokazu Kato: Return to the origin of Augmented RealityBoris Debackere:…
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the links of this week:Synchronize your markers – the second Augmented Reality Event to take place in May. Maybe this time my flight won’t be canceled by Delta at the very last minute.Google Goggles enters the p…
1980, the Japanese Namco corporation develops Pac-Man, making arcade history2004, researchers from National University of Singapore’s Mixed Reality Lab, led by Adrian Cheok, create Human Pacman, a first person version of the classic game, that lets you…
We have got plenty of augmented reality links this week, so enjoy the show:From CES:Recon’s ski goggles with built in display, gps and other sensors, and as this video shows, you can even add a camera to it. Imagine what a talented hacker can do with t…
Just playing around with Google Ngram viewer. If you didn’t get to try it yet, it’s a tool that shows the number of times a phrase appears in a big corpus of books that Google scanned.So, “augmented reality” popularity is rising:but, it still has a lot…
Last year I asked a group of AR bloggers and the readers of Games Alfresco and Augmented Times to guess what 2010 holds for augmented reality. You can see them all here. A year has passed, and 2011 is just around the corner, it’s time to confront reali…
In late June, the establishment of Qualcomm Augmented Reality Game Studio was announced, a partnership between Qualcomm and Georgia Tech’s Augmented Environments Lab, with the goal of “pioneering new advancements in mobile gaming and interactive media”…
