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Layar – The First Reality Browser
I’m not going to go into too much detail, because Rouli gives us an excellent run down on the Augmented Times, but I think this is an important step in “creating the cloud“. Who knows, Layar could be...
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I’d like to take a moment and review the AR happenings around the net in the last month about augmented reality. * Not one, but two AR frameworks are being released – Layar and Gamaray; both for...
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Someone Please Turn Off The Lights
A new Android program called Sky Map can tell you what stars you’re looking at in the sky by pointing your phone in the right direction. Using the magnetometer, accelerometer, GPS and clock, the...
View ArticleWhat AR Devs Want From Smartphones
With three smartphones on the market: iPhone, Android and Pre; the opportunities for augmented reality apps have opened up. I asked a couple of AR developers what they wanted from smartphones and I...
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10 Things Your AR App Must Have to Succeed
With the iPhone OS 3.1 launch set to debut next month, I wanted to explore the features that are going to help make some AR apps succeed over others. We’re going to be seeing a spike of releases since...
View ArticleAirpainter – Augmented Reality Graffiti
The often maligned graffiti artist now has a new and pollution free way (ignoring the energy used by the smartphone) to tag the world. The Andoidpit app developers have created an augmented reality...
View ArticleAnother Augmented Reality Business Card
So it’s another augmented reality business card. This time from the company Genuine Interactive. The use of a 3D video landscape within the augment is cute, but there’s one major flaw with this...
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Mr. Jobs, Tear Down This AR Wall!
Reagan famously said, “Mr. Gorbechev, tear down this wall!” While arguments can be made whether Reagan’s challenge had any affect on the end of the Soviet Union, it still marked an important time in...
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Augmented Reality Year in Review – 2009
The year 2009 has been an important milestone in the development of augmented reality as an important future technology. While markers and marketing campaigns captured the early interest of the year,...
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10 Cool Things Going On Right Now in Augmented Reality
Augmented reality has come a long way in a years time. Last year I got excited by research projects and gimmicky AR webcam advertising, but that quickly faded on the tenth plus iteration. It wasn’t...
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