Augmented Reality

News: Mumbai in Augmented Reality

GO BANANAS in collaboration with Transhuman Collective presents Mumbai in spectacular Augmented Reality. The visitors at the MCHI Property Show 2013 had a blast while experiencing different elements of Mumbai in this surreal zone. They travelled inside future Mumbai, took blessings from Lord Ganesha, Broke the Dahi handi, The Dabbawala delivered them lunch and could play the hero inside a Bollywood action shoot.

News: LinkAR, the First Community for AR Devs

Hello, I'm Daniel Yelamos and I'm the CM of ARLab, a Spanish-Israel company that develops AR solutions. We've released a couple of SDKs and a few apps based on AR to help people develop this kind of software. Last week we released LinkAR, a social community for developers interested in AR community, I could type and type about all its features, but why don't you watch it for yourselves here?

News: Augmented Reality News Outlet

Augmented/Views is a member contributed news spin site dedicated to news, happenings and discussion in the realm of Augmented Reality for Augmented Reality enthusiasts. Submit your own stories and save interesting stories to your personal profile. Join in, it's FREE!

News: An augmented-reality tattoo

This augmented reality tattoo can be read by the new Nintendo 3DS. It's pretty awesome!

News: Good example of Augmented Reality in a Mall

Very slick and nicely done.

News: 3DS Augmented Reality picture collection

Here is a little fun someone had with the new 3ds & the augmented reality cards.

News: Where To? 3D - Discover your next destination with Augmented Reality

Where To?, the well-known points of interest finder for iPhone, has been updated to a new version including an Augmented Reality view.

How To: change Printer Toner with Augmented Reality

Here is a quick demo showing the potential of watching how-to's with Augmented Reality and a smart phone. I bet we will see much more of this when the smart phone is common place.

News: Rainbows End; A Sci-Fi Book That Has a Lot of Agumented Reality

Here is an interesting use of AR for a librarian. Anybody read Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge? The book does a great job exploring Augmented Reality in a future thriller & it actually has a moving library! Highly Recommended!

News: Augmented Reality Developer Challenge 2010 Sizzle Reel

Some great work coming from Qualcomm's AR Developer Challenge 2010!!! I hope they make these available on iPhone and Android devices soon.

News: Super Bowl Augmented Reality App from USA Today

Here are the instruction on how to download and get started:

News: Nintendo 3DS & augmented reality

News: Transform yourself to Ultra Seven by Kinect

News: PSP2 (Next Generation Portable) or NGP

It looks like Sony is adding some cool features to their upcoming portable game system called NGP (Next Generation Portable).

News: Traveling with Augmented Reality

Searching for some new new in Augmented Reality Apps I came across Augmented GeoTravel. I would have loved to have this app when I went to Europe. Being able to travel and hold up the camera & get more information on cool places I was seeing would have been awesome. It is like an ultimate travel guide and so much more. Check out some of the things it can do below.

News: 5 Gum Music Mixer & Augmented Reality

Check this out! It is a music synthesizer that you can create sounds & music with just your webcam. You can also print out some 'Markers' to create even more unique sound. It is interesting that a gum product is creating music mixing software & Augmented Reality toys...

News: HoloDecon

HoloDecon , is a Interfered Perception Dispositive , constructed by the modification of celular phones , used to activate alternate perceptive channels , in a trajectory that talks to the nature of impermanent as an experience of conditioned phenomenon to the understanding of substance ,

News: The Future of Augmented Reality

Here is a good talk about some of the possibilities of Augmented Reality.

MovieReshape: Coming soon to a pair of glasses near you!

Imagine walking around and everyone looks awesome! Ok, maybe this beauty is only skin deep or shall we say AR deep. Coming soon to a pair of glasses near you, you will be able to put on glasses that actually make people look more muscular, have bigger boobs, look tan & blonde, etc... Now imagine that you can push a button or say a word and now all the people around you become brunette. Then another setting makes everyone slightly shorter than you. All of this in realtime!

News: New Release of AR-media 2.0 for 3ds Max

AR-media has made some great Augmented Reality software. You can check out their new AR-media™ Plugin for Autodesk® 3ds Max® OR their AR-media™ Plugin for Google™ SketchUp™. They use a marker based technology that allows you to create models in either 3ds Max or SketchUp, then export them as a ARmedia file type to be played by anyone who has the free ARmedia player.

News: AR World Makes Wonderment Blog

Augmented Reality Cookies Augmented Reality World is featured today on WonderHowTo's homepage for the AR Cookies post by toastyKitten. Check it out here:

News: augmented reality cookies

Recipe is available. I didn't really get it until a commenter explained: "the orientation of the cookie (apart from distance-to-camera which is only relative) can be easily determined from the marking, which lets one match up graphics to it".

News: GE, it's SmartGrid AR & the software used to make it.

GE was one of the first large companies to make a cool AR application. The AR was done using FLARToolKit & PV3D, by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners and North Kingdom.

News: A little about Augmented Reality (AR)

Augmented Reality, or just AR, is a combination of graphics overlaid onto the real world. Think of it as a cross between Virtual Reality (VR) and Real Reality (RR). Some good examples are Esquire's AR issue, eLearning video & GE's AR.

News: Augmented Reality explained in 3 min

News: Layar, worlds first mobile Augmented Reality browser

Layar is cutting edge AR technology for the mobile phone. Currently for the Android devices and the iPhone 3GS.

News: BMW augmented reality

This is some current research BMW is doing in the Augmented Reality field. Imagine that, without much training, you could accomplish almost any task easily with this type of Augmented Reality.

News: Augmented Reality T-shirt

Now you can play by yourself!

News: Lego's Digital Box via NOTCOT

Check out this article on the ridiculously cool use of augmented-reality by LEGO.

News: Augmented-Reality Floor Tiling

Augmented Steps This "haptic" floor can mimic the look and feel of sand. Credit: Yon Visell

News: Interactive AR on a cereal box

In a store near you! Well maybe not yet, but you can bet that it will be soon.

Wonderment Blog: Terminator Vision

Contact Lenses That Overlay the Real with the Virtual Tripping out yet?

Wonderment Blog: AR Holographic Tattoos

Tats that Fly! Augmented Reality Skin Art

News: ARmedia Plugin for Autodesk™ 3dsMax™Augmented Reality

This is a great plugin for 3ds Max. It allows for simple animations & complex models to be shown in AR. ARmedia also has a player that someone can download to play your custom AR models, as well as custom markers.

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop

This is one of my favorite (vaporware) videos on Augmented Reality! It shows the possibilities as well as the draw backs that it could have. Look for the 'Sims' like graphs showing that he has to 'Liquid Waste' to attend to, classic.