Archive for August, 2009
Augmented London – The New iPhone App
The latest augmented reality mobile application for the iPhone enables you to find your way around London on the trains and buses. Additional POIs help you to find food, wifi points or find all the major London sights. With the London Bus application you'll make the most of your visit to the city.
Whether you are a tourist or a cockney sparrow you need never be lost in the city of London again. Is this this iPhone application that every Londoner must have?
Hidden iPhone Augmented Reality Feature
If you have an iPhone then check out the hidden augmented reality Easter egg feature in the Yelp application. It's Layar on your iPhone.
Heavens Above Augmented Reality
2 augmented reality application that will show you objects in the sky. Track the location of satellites or impress your friends with your knowledge of the locations of planets and constellations.
How To Create Augmented Reality Apps
Have you ever wondered how you create an augmented reality application? What the code looks like, how you go about getting started? Wonder no more in this excellent code walk-through.
ARound – New Version
Sequence Point Software release an update to their Symbian based Augmented Reality application, ARound.
The Future Of Home Shopping
Ikea are using augmented reality to help shoppers test out items in the home before going to the store.
87 Layers And Counting
A quick congratulations to the guys at Layar today who have now taken their product global and have an amazing 87 layers available for their augmented reality browser.
If you are not familiar with Layar, Layar shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your [...]
The Five Lives Of Criss Angel
Go get yourself another cup of coffee and before you dive into a weekends worth of unread emails have a go at this flash based augmented reality game titled the Five Lives of Criss Angel. The game actually looks like a pretty difficult brain teaser, it might take you till lunch time to complete it. What [...]
Try The AR CannonBallz Game
From the same people that brought you the AR Shopper application comes CannonBallz.
The premise of the game is simple, visit the webpage, allow the application to use your webcam then dodge the cannon balls that are fired at you from the pirate ships.
A rather nice touch to promote the game virally is you can save [...]
Sticky Light And The Sekai Camera Application
Over the years I have been to a fair few tradeshows and exhibitions, I’ve even been known to arrange a few in my time as well. Walking around a tradeshow trying to find the interesting exhibitors to visit can be fraught with danger, I always seem to make eye contact with the weirdo that hasn’t [...]
Augmented Tourisum
Welcome to Monday. I have a feeling this is going to be great week.
Please continue to send in your details if you are a developer looking for augmented reality projects to work on, or if you have tools/SDKs that you want developers to use. I do have one reader who is in need of [...]







