Augmented Reality Source

Sekai Camera, the augmented reality iPhone app that tags and overlays information about products and places, debuted in Tokyo today at a press event held at the Spanish luxury designer Loewe. Here’s a video showing how it works — basically, when your camera scans a certain tagged item, it shows up on the screen along with a description, pricing, etc. Video by Nobi Hayashi.

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Got fascinated by this one. imagine this would be a floor in a minimalistic glass house. See what I mean?

Thermoesthesia

Kumiko Kushiyama

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Monocle, Yelp’s hidden Augmented Reality feature in their iPhone and iPod touch applications. More from the ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick <a href=”http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yelp_brings_first_us_augmented_reality_to_iphone_s.php”>here</a>

The Living Book: The book written entirely in QR codes.

DDB set up a system that pulled in messages of love or hate from Twitter, they then put up QR code posters around Sao Paulo which when read by peoples mobile phones displayed one of the messages of love or hate. Their next step was to create an actual book full of these QR codes and sell it on the Editoras site, as with the posters people could use their mobiles to translate the QR codes to messages of love or hate. DDB made use of the fact that QR codes can simply provide links to online content and therefore you can change what information a QR code links to by simply changing the content at the end of the link. After every 7 days all the codes in the book provided different messages of love and hate, and ‘the living book‘ was born. (See video above for a better description).

Virtuesphere

A laser spot bounces on a figure being drawn on paper, trying to escape the labyrinth of lines. There is no camera nor projector; this is an experience where the audience can touch and interact with a beam of pure light - and even play a pong game with bare hands. The quality of the laser light, and the fluidity of the motion makes for a very unique experience. The piece is based upon a 3d tracking technology developed earlier in our lab, using a laser diode, a pair of steering mirrors, and a single non-imaging photodetector called the “smart laser scanner”. For more on this: www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/perception/Sticky Light

The term was first invented a Boeing.

This video demonstrates the augmented reality camera view of Wikitude AR on a G1 phone from a beautiful viewpoint looking down on Salzburg.

Wikitude is a mobile travel guide based on Wikipedia and Panoramio. Search landmarks in your surroundings and view them on a map, list, and on an Augmented Reality (AR) camera view: What you see is an annotated landscape, mountain names, landmark descriptions, and interesting stories.

The device displayed is a G1 Google phone, running Android.

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OMG the future. Glowing blobs of virtual smoke are ‘making music’

BrightKite and Layar team up to bring Augmented Reality to…you.