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 [...]

The Civil War Augmented Reality Project

The Civil War Augmented Reality Project was conceived by several public educators with technology experience and a desire to offer more interactivity to students and the general public visiting historic sites. The objective of the project is to develop and implement augmented reality services related to the American Civil War in Pennsylvania, and to modify [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Augmented Reality Past, Present and Future: How It Impacts Our Lives

Can’t stop hearing about it in the news, but wondering what makes “augmented reality” AR – the concept of overlaying computerized information, digital pop-up windows and/or virtual reality VR displays over real-world scenes and imagery – so exciting? Read more: AR How It Impacts Our Lives.

Architectuurinstituut bouwt augmented reality

Het Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (NAi) gaat in samenwerking met Layar en IN10 een Augmented Reality (AR) applicatie voor mobiele telefoons ontwikkelen. Doel van de applicatie is dat bezoekers hun mobiel op een gebouw kunnen richten, waarna ze allerlei informatie te zien krijgen, waaronder 3D modellen en maquettes. Niet alleen informatie over bestaande architectuur zal zo zichtbaar [...]