Freitag, 28. August 2009

Augmented Reality from the iTunes store

Metro Paris Subway & London Bus
has added the push notification support that allows you to be notified in background, even if you have closed the application. This new feature allows you to receive Paris Metro alerts in real time, when a disrupted line is detected, a notification is automatically sent to your iPhone / iPod Touch. A numbered badge to Metro Paris Subway application icon shows the current number of disrupted lines. This functionality is totally free.


- Metro Paris Subway
- London Bus

Both apps are from Presselite


YELP
It seems that Yelp for the iPhone has a hidden augmented reality feature. Simply point your iPhone 3GS in any direction and take a look! I live out here in the middle of nowhere and was certain that I'd get a blank screen. Instead, Yelp found a number of restaurants, bars and other shops right away.
www.yelp.com/

Acrossair Interview

"With the release of the 3.1 iPhone OS, application developers will finally be able to develop augmented reality (AR) apps. In other words, Terminator Vision is right around the corner. I recently talked to Chetan Damani, one of the founders of Acrossair, about their new AR applications, Nearest Tube."
Read article: Augmenting Reality with the iPhone - O'Reilly Broadcast

Donnerstag, 27. August 2009

Mittwoch, 26. August 2009

Magma - Video Sharing

The Magma home page is comprised of video charts for the most popular videos being watched, right now

Channels:
Blip.tv, BoingBoing, Break, BuzzFeed, CollegeHumor, Dailymotion, Delicious, Digg, Hulu, Icerocket, Kottke, New York Times, Reddit, StumbleUpon, TED, Technorati, TweetMeme, Twitter, Vimeo, Viral Video Chart, YouTube

Find out more: Magma

Example:

Bob McFerrin Hacks Your Brain - Watch more Funny Videos

TAT augmented ID


"Augmented ID is a TAT concept that visualizes the digital identities of people you meet in real life. With a mobile device and face recognition software from Polar Rose, Augmented ID enables you to discover selected information about people around you. All users control their own augmented appearance, by selecting the content and social network links they want show to others. Modifying your augmented ID is easier than fixing your hair in real life and, of course, TAT Cascades will make sure you look great!"

YouTube - TAT augmented ID

CES 2009 Total Immersion


General Manager of Total Immersion, Greg Davis gives us a close look at what "augmented reality" can do for gaming, retail, advertising, simulation, etc. Some highlights: Picachu animated and firing lightning and a close look at Nissan's new Cube.

Call a Bike iPhone App

The new "Call a Bike" application is the ideal complement to the bike rental system of Deutsche Bahn, which has more than 200.000 customers in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Munich, Stuttgart, Cologne and at 40 German ICE stations.

From now on, there is no more tedious searching for the closest bike.
No matter where you are, you will find a bike everywhere. At your front door, when stepping out of the subway, at night in front of your favorite bar or if you are still on the train to your destination.
via: iFUN.de

Crowdsourcing road congestion data

"What if you could do a little something to improve the world during your daily drive to work? Here are a few ideas: tell everybody in the city when you're stuck in slow-moving traffic; warn the drivers on the freeway behind you that they should consider an alternate route; tell the people still at home that they should spend another ten minutes reading the morning news before they leave for work; tell your city government that they might want to change the timing of that traffic light at the highway on-ramp. Of course, you can't just get on the phone and call everybody, and your one traffic report from your one spot on the road might not help much anyway. But if everybody on the road, all at once, could tell the world how fast their car is moving, and we could make it easy for anybody to check that information on their computer or cell phone, well — then we'd be getting somewhere."

Read full article: Official Google Mobile Blog: The bright side of sitting in traffic: Crowdsourcing road congestion data

Essential Tribes: The Mobile Web 2, 3, and 4

"Cell phones are becoming our first screens. Always on. Always connected. Following us 24/7. In our pockets or in our hands - resting in spacetime or moving, held horizontal, vertical, or tilted. Operated by gestures, movements, voice and vision."
Harald Felgner & the Red Fez

Dienstag, 25. August 2009

Stadtinzahlen | Köln


Antje Julius betreibt seit nicht allzu langer Zeit das Blog “stadtinzahlen“. Klingt erstmal langweilig, ist es aber ganz und gar nicht. Denn erstens sind die Zahlen wirklich interessant (zumindest für die Kölner), und zweitens erstellt Antje wundervolle Infografiken. In ihren eigenen nüchternen Worten beschreibt sie das so:

Stadtinzahlen | Köln

The Inhospitable Land of the App Store - Unweary

"Since last year I've been working on several iPhone projects off and on. I have half a dozen solutions incubating that I think are both new and fun (and for problems where there isn't 'an app for that' on the App Store. Don't tell Apple.) I've tried curtailing my blog reading, focusing only on 'critical news' specifically to avoid reading about App Store rejections. Daring Fireball is one of a few blogs I still read daily and yesterday I read about yet another App Store rejection."

Read full article: The Inhospitable Land of the App Store - Unweary

Montag, 24. August 2009

Gamescom Highlights

Some Highlights:
- For Playstation: EyePet TM
- Tony Hawk's The Ride

Mittwoch, 19. August 2009

Map/Territory Shows Augmented Reality of the Future

Map/Territory, by designer Timo Arnall, is a concept video of what it might be like to interact with a map embedded in real life - not just on a phone or on a computer screen. Imagine a world where a flick of the wrist draws up all the information you need in real time and space. Check out the 30-second clip below:


Map/Territory from timo on Vimeo.



via Map/Territory Shows Augmented Reality of the Future | FlowingData

Personas | Metropath(ologies)

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at theMuseum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.

Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person – to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.

Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by Aaron Zinman

Augmented Reality T-Shirt

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-US&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:3faee485-d8a0-4fd3-89d1-deba76ffff04&showPlaylist=true&from=shared" target="_new" title="Sam showing Microsoft SQL Augmented reality - msftsqlar">Video: Sam showing Microsoft SQL Augmented reality - msftsqlar</a>
via Incredible Augmented Reality T-Shirts - at Tcritic The Daily T-Shirt Fasion and Design blog

Mittwoch, 12. August 2009

Android Developers Challenge: The Top 50 Applications

AndroidScan - Jeffrey Sharkey
Beetaun - Sergey Gritsyuk and Dmitri Shipilov
BioWallet - Jose Luis Huertas Fernandez
BreadCrumbz - Amos Yoffe
CallACab - Konrad Huebner and Henning Boeger
City Slikkers - PoroCity Media and Virtual Logic Systems
Commandro - Alex Pisarev, Andrey Tapekha
Cooking Capsules - Mary Ann Cotter and Muthuselvam Ramadoss
Diggin - Daniel Johansson, Aramis Waernbaum, Andreas Hedin
Dyno - Virachat Boondharigaputra
e-ventr - Michael Zitzelsberger
Eco2go - Taneem Talukdar, Gary Pong, Jeff Kao and Robert Lam
Em-Radar - Jack Kwok
fingerprint - Robert Mickle
FreeFamilyWatch - Navee Technologies LLC
goCart - Rylan Barnes
GolfPlay - Inizziativa Networks
gWalk - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus ten Hagen, Christian Klinger, Marko Modsching, Rene Scholze
HandWx - Weathertop Consulting LLC
IMEasy - Yan Shi
Jigsaw - Mikhail Ksenzov
JOYity - Zelfi AG
LifeAware - Gregory Moore, Aaron L. Obrien, Jawad Akhtar
Locale - Clare Bayley, Christina Wright, Jasper Lin, Carter Jernigan
LReady Emergency Manager - Chris Hulls, Dilpreet Singh, Luis Carvalho, Phuong Nguyen
Marvin - Pontier Laurent
Mobeedo - Sengaro GmbH
Multiple Facets Instant Messenger - Virgil Dobjanschi
MyCloset - Mamoru Tokashiki
PedNav - RouteMe2 Technologies Inc.
Phonebook 2.0 - Voxmobili
PicSay - Eric Wijngaard
PiggyBack - Christophe Petit and Sebastien Petit
Pocket Journey - Anthony Stevens and Rosie Pongracz
Rayfarla - Stephen Oldmeadow
Safety Net - Michael DeJadon
SocialMonster - Ben Siu-Lung Hui and Tommy Ng
SplashPlay
Sustain- Keeping Your Social Network Alive - Niraj Swami
SynchroSpot - Shaun Terry
Talkplay - Sung Suh Park
Teradesk - José Augusto Athayde Ferrarini
The Weather Channel for Android - The Weather Channel Interactive Inc.
TuneWiki - TuneWiki Inc.
Wikitude-the Mobile Travel Guide - Philipp Breuss
Writing Pad - ShapeWriter Inc
Read more: Android Developers Blog: The Top 50 Applications

AR Links

Novarama Technology

Novarama Technology S.L.


Acrossair

www.acrossair.com/


SekaiCamera by TonchiDot






www.tonchidot.com/


Enkin

Enkin from Enkin on Vimeo.


www.enkin.net/


ING Wegwaizer
Last month, Dutch giant ING released a Google Android mobile application called ING Wegwijzer (see translated page below), that goes one step beyond the iPhone's GPS-enabled ATM finder apps.
Read more: http://www.netbanker.com/2009/03/ings_ultra-atm_finder_android_app.html


Wikitude

www.wikitude.org/

MasterCard Priceless Picks



Priceless Picks iPhone App — Find User-Recommended Priceless Experiences And Share Yours | MasterCard Mobile Apps | priceless.com: "The world is full of priceless things. And we all have our favorites. We call them Priceless Picks. The application lets you discover thousands of user-recommended priceless experiences, shops, and restaurants. You can also add your own right from your phone."

From Ubermind.