First free Cloud Image Recognition Engine #AR #SDK

ElipseAR is a set of tools for Augmented Reality and Computer Vision development.

First AR Pop-up Book for iPad 2 and iPhone 4 using image recognition

Our lovely friend Helen Papagiannis did it again: what a nice new AR app! On her blog Helen writes: “I’d like to present the first AR Pop-up Book for mobile devices using image recognition (a.k.a. regular images to trigger augmented content, as opposed to the black and white square glyphs that are common in AR). [...]

Helen Papagiannis – How Does Wonderment Guide the Creative Process?

What happens when technology breaks or behaves in unexpected ways? Why is this important to embrace? Papagiannis will speak to her PhD research in interactive art installations in Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality. Helen Papagiannis is an artist, designer, and researcher specializing in Augmented Reality (AR). Hailed as being among the top 10 forces currently [...]

Nice example of Augmented Reality for museums

Augmented Reality of the Augsburg Display Cabinet The Getty Museum’s 17th-century display cabinet from Augsburg, Germany, is a type of furniture often called a “cabinet of curiosities” because of its compartments designed to contain collectible objects. Imagine holding the large tabletop cabinet in your hands. You can get a sense of the furniture’s multifaceted structure [...]

Augmented Reality for your museum

Augmented reality can be a new feature for exposing cultural news and locations. Several companies are exploring this new technique: Layar, Wikitude. Junaio… Layar is one of the augmented reality browsers for Android and iPhone. Soon on Nokia. This latest video shows daily scenario’s of how Layar is used: to find a place to eat, [...]

19th Century London Today on your smartphone with Augmented Reality

Source: GIZMODO Augmented reality might be the future, but my favorite application of it yet transports you far into past. StreetMuseum—an iPhone app from the Museum of London—overlays four hundred years of historic images on today’s city streets. StreetMuseum makes creative use of Google Maps and geo-tagging to show users how London used to look. [...]

Very nice audiovisual about social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality

Very nice and renewing audiovisual by Keiichi Matsuda: Augmented hyperReality: Domestic Robocop The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in [...]

Augmented Reality Tours voor het Stedelijk Museum

Het Stedelijk Museum gaat op een nieuwe, innovatieve manier zijn collectie aan een breder publiek tonen door het toepassen van Augmented Reality. Fabrique en Layar zullen samen met het Stedelijk Museum werken aan deze nieuwe applicatie ‘ARtours’. Via een smartphone (zoals de iPhone of Android telefoon) kan men multimediale uitingen (audio, beeld, video en animatie) bekijken bij geselecteerde [...]

Augmented Reality: nearly but not quite

A wave of apps for iPhones and Androids has sparked the public interest in augment reality. It won’t be long before superimposing images and content onto the real world through the camera view of your smartphone will change the way you look at things. In order for AR to be really useful, researchers must chisel [...]

3D mobile augmented reality community

junaio allows you to create, explore and share information in a completely new way using augmented reality. By combining innovative online and mobile technologies you will be able to place 3D objects into the real world and share this with friends through social networks. You will be able to see any kind of location-based content [...]