Augmentify

The battle between Wikitude and Layar is heating up. Could it mirror the desktop browsers wars? Which one will become the defacto AR browser?

Image via Wikipedia Onezerothrice have released a new Flash framework for developing augmented reality web apps. Artisan is “the fastest and easiest way from point A to point B in browser based augmented reality. With ARtisan, the developer needs no knowledge of the inner workings of augmented reality to create in-depth, interactive AR experiences.” Previously, [...]

The HTC Hero is an important device for AR. Built on the Android platform, it looks like it should be the flagship device for this technology. Spec wise, it meets or exceeds the iPhone 3Gs, but it’s being on the Android platform makes all the difference. Android is open source, meaning developers [...]

ARDJ is a system designed to put creative control of DJ-style performance into the hands of the viewer. This work incorporates a simple, and virtually no-cost interface into a digital music workstation making use of Augmented Reality technology. Along with the technological aspects, the work challenges conventional ideas regarding performance, song structure, and interactivity between [...]

Pretty neat iPhone app that demonstrates in principle how social networking may look in the near future. This is cool, but of course pretty gimmicky.I battle to keep up with tweets when they’re presented in list format in Tweetdeck – an app like this is hardly practical. Still, it demonstrates to a wider audience how [...]

Austrian based Mobilzy (the company that brings Wikipedia articles via augmented reality to your phone) have released a beta API for their AR system, on the Android platform. They are the first company to publicly release an API. Competitor SPRXMobile also have an augmented reality API (Android platform only), but availability is limited to [...]

Check out this augmented reality business card. AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo. Clearly marketers everywhere will love this idea, but without the recipient having an AR headset (or something equally as convenient), its use is limited. Asking people to visit a website and hold the card up to a webcam will only work [...]