Last week Metaio announced with great -and justified- fanfare the first AR Engine. This engine is going to be manufactured in tandem with ST-Ericsson. So, what is it all about? Let it be said that we -obviously- embrace and welcome any advantages in the AR world. The more improvements, the better. Indeed Metaio and ST-Ericsson…
Some time ago I shared my thoughts on designing and deploying an app that would work under the offline concept (no connection to the internet necessary) or online one (connection to the internet necessary). Well, during my visit to Innsbruck the experience reassured me to follow the online route. In short, online is easier on…
Ever since AR started to be popular, the question of using pornography on it has been in the air. After all, it seems obvious to use AR for those proposes. Well, last week, the first formal step of embracing porn in AR was made by Layar, by enhancing the Playboy Magazine, Netherlands edition. You can…
Ever since computers where invented, a translation machine has been the dream of many, after all voice is the main way to communicate between humans, humans have created languages. Even if we humans can achieve to speak several ones, its really hard to speak them all for nothing else than practical reasons. However, most of…
In case you’re not aware of it, there’s a new game in town called Ingress, brought to you by Google. Playing is under invitation only, so like many people I haven’t had a chance to play with it. All I know about it, is what I’ve read on the web. The game has become quite…
Geocaching (no, not the hunting game) has always been tricky, meaning it doesn’t come with its disadvantages, like everything. But let’s start by the beginning. What’s geocaching (on the mobile device world)? Well the word says it all, is putting/saving onto local storage (whatever the device) geographical related information. For example, the location (coordinates) of…
When you show someone geolocated AR (augmented reality), generally the first natural practical application they suggest is to use it indoors, in order to enhanced the visit to a mall or airport. This sounds great but currently its not possible, at least not that easily. Let me explain… The basics Let’s expand on a subject…
One of Arthur C. Clarke laws was: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Currently mobile AR fits within that definition. Imagine then, when a magician turns to AR to do his tricks. Things becomes even weirder! Well, that’s the case of Marco Tempest, I can say a lot, but lets let the video…
Every time a human endeavour is started, a natural behaviour is to try to figure it out what to do with it or how to do it. In the case of augmented reality (AR), this can be witnesses with the current state of SDKs for AR, at least there are 20, all of them good….
It seems ironic that AR was going to be the one that propels wearable computing into the stardom, but that’s exactly what’s happening. Wearable computing (in case you’re wondering) is -as it names implies-, computers that we wear. Or put it in another sense, clothing that has some computing capabilities. We have heard about shoes…
