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Posts tagged "augmented reality"
Feb 19th, 2011 @ 4:21 pm
See Breeze - Augmented Reality Wind Vizualizer for iPhone/iPad (via gpdawson) is almost a year old now. It has pretty smooth accelerometer and compass filtering.
One could achieve the 3D arrow effect in 3DAR by placing 4 flat planes around the user’s position like a wind tunnel with 2 opposite walls, floor and ceiling. Rotate the wind tunnel to face the wind direction. Animate the arrows by changing texture map coordinates.
Use sphere.obj to draw a wireframe sphere. I’d use 2D RoundedLabelMarkerViews for the compass directions since 3DAR doesn’t have an OpenGL text facility yet.
Feb 2nd, 2011 @ 11:26 pm
Augmented/Mediated Reality Concepts (via daftcyborg)
A dated but still relevant vision by Stewart Morgan from mid-2007.
Jan 29th, 2011 @ 7:52 pm
HUD from Iron Man 2 (by motionographer on flickr)
Jan 27th, 2011 @ 9:49 am
The InviZimals game for PlayStation PSP looks really fun.
Jan 26th, 2011 @ 12:38 pm
“Medium-specific content is being created — content that does not exist on the web — that cannot be put in a magazine or on TV, it only exists in AR, and it really is in its own there. We believe the future Amazon, the future eBay, is being born amongst the developers of Augmented Reality.”
Layar co-founder & GM Lens-Fitzgerald on mobile’s next big thing via ReutersJan 25th, 2011 @ 1:53 pm
The Hololabs MixAR kickstarter is about to be funded. Good luck!
@ 2:35 am
Random intensity with Spot Metrix targets
Jan 19th, 2011 @ 3:24 pm
ARML Placemark a la Mobilizy
<Placemark id="123456">
<ar:provider>myCpId</ar:provider>
<name>Title of my POI</name>
<description>My POI description</description>
<wikitude:info>
<wikitude:thumbnail>
http://thumbnailUrl.com
</wikitude:thumbnail>
<wikitude:phone>123-456-789</wikitude:phone>
<wikitude:url>http://poiUrl.com</wikitude:url>
<wikitude:email>inf@myPoi.com</wikitude:email>
<wikitude:address>
My POI Street 5, 5020 POI, Austria
</wikitude:address>
<wikitude:attachment>
http://myAttachmentLink.com
</wikitude:attachment>
</wikitude:info>
<Point>
<coordinates>
13.048056,47.797222,432.0
</coordinates>
</Point>
</Placemark>
Dec 22nd, 2010 @ 2:45 pm
Augmented reality in 2011
There is no question that a growing number of companies, municipalities, institutions and other organizations will want to reach the millions of people around the world carrying modern mobile phones and tablets. The most effective user interfaces will help people visualize and interact with vast landscapes of spatial, temporal and archival data in a mix of online and offline access.
Mobile devices should act as virtual windows into both private and shared data spaces, with custom interaction methods extending standard techniques for creating, reading, updating and destroying content on the device or in the cloud.
A recent Forrester article has this:
“Expect lots of innovation and interest from handset manufacturers (mobile AR as the new UI), online and social media players, and location-based networks such as foursquare, but set realistic expectations!”
Happy new year!
