This is not only musically interesting it also looks great. Developed by the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra located in Barcelona. The multiuser table is being used by Bjork on her 2007 tour. The analogue synth style sounds generated definitely recall the Kraftwerk era and the new possibilities that were – and [...]
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It looks as though the olde D&D or Magic gaming is about to be augmented. This Sony Computer Science Laboratories video shows a game called “The Eye of Judgement” in which players lay out an augmented card game on a table top. The game also appears to have a screen version.
“To praise the [...]
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Total Immersion started in France and is now active in the US, Japan, Korea, and Saudi Arabia. This demo is from early 2007. Revenues of $4M in 2006, forecasting $7M in 2007. They work with Alcatel and Lucent apparently. Hard to tell if the audience is wearing goggles or not. [...]
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In the future, people will jump up and down and punch invisible purple spheres. This video shows a variety of applications, mostly artistic. The urban scenes are fantastic. The future will also have some pretty cool sound effects. Apparently, artists will be able to create entirely new species of animals to populate the [...]
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This very interesting 3 minute video focuses on augmented books and displays springing from other flat surfaces. It also and explains the use of “markers”. Looks like it comes from Australia. And, guess what, looks like some of the first colonizers of the augmented world will be furries.
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Moisture farm AR Tatooine
An odd, echo-y voice says “one of your evaporators has been damaged”. “Attention: bantha heard nearby”.
Yes you read correctly, this is an augmented reality Tatooine. One can almost smell the banthas but I’m only scared the voice will say “Let the Tusken Raiders win”. Let’s see if we can find the the [...]
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This video is by a French company that here demos AR for auto manufacturing. Video dates to 2005. If you can determine the name of the firm please let me know. Now, this video itself is created “virtually” meaning the audience was viewing the demo on a screen, not seeing the live cars as you [...]
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This article dates to 2002. It explains what computer interfaces will look like “in the next 10 years”. Now, it’s 2007 and we’re almost halfway there. Or are we? Remember – Da Vinci invented the helicopter 500 years ago. Whatever we see emerge from augmented reality will likely look as different from what’s in the [...]
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Now this is what I’m talking about. Developers Daniel Wagner, Thomas Pintaric, Florian Ledermann, and Dieter Schmalstieg of Vienna University of Technology created this project in which a 3D train is displayed on an HP Ipaq. The track exists in “real life” (aka. RL) and the train is augmented. The site contains [...]
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A-Rage is an augmented reality game development platform. Based in Australia, they have been active since 2003.
They have developed a few games with dinosaurs and flying saucers that ov
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