This talk is part of a presentation given at the UAF Mobile Showcase 2013 As location-based services become more tightly integrated into our mobile devices we are able to make more immediate sense of our surroundings easily. This opens up a number of opportunities for education, the local community, and […]
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Is it me or it it getting easier to create location-based augmented reality resources? These days you certainly don’t have to be a developer to start building your own projects. As another exploration into collaborative location-based augmented reality, I did some experimentation with Google My Places and it’s new features, […]
Back in December I came across an article by BERG Studio, in London, which described their collaboration with Google Creative Lab in exploring what Google would be like if it wasn’t behind a screen. They were curious to bring interaction into the real world by way of a Smart Light […]
For this year’s ASTE session I’ve been looking into easy, inexpensive ways to build platforms that support collaborative, geotagged augmented reality projects. It is a mouthful to say it that way, but the important characteristics of these platforms is that they are easy for a relatively non-technical person to set […]
I didn't know, until today, that it was possible to geolocate posts from Wordpress.com. I came across this little gem of insight as I was...
Layar has announced their new Layar Vision, which allows mobile devices to see virtual interactive information overlaid on IRL objects. Watch the video to see what that means. Among other things, it essentially jumps past the convention of scanning codes (Bar and QR for instance) and allows devices to scan […]
I’ve been experimenting with creating augmented reality layers in my free time, what little there is, and in the past few days I’ve finally been able to pull something together fairly quickly thanks to Hoppala. Hoppala makes the process of building an AR layer for any or all of the […]
AR in Plain English Yes, you knew it was only a matter of time before Commoncraft explained AR in their friendly and succinct style. The above video lists some generic applications of augmented reality mostly relying on data overlays. Apps like Layar can overlay a broad variety of information, from […]