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Try The AR CannonBallz Game
Thursday, 13 Aug, 2009 – 9:43 | One Comment
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 …

Sticky Light And The Sekai Camera Application
Tuesday, 11 Aug, 2009 – 12:50 | One Comment
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 …

Augmented Tourisum
Monday, 10 Aug, 2009 – 12:21 | One Comment
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 …

Calling AR Developers/Tools Providers
Friday, 7 Aug, 2009 – 15:13 | 2 Comments
Calling AR Developers/Tools Providers

From time to time I receive emails asking ‘do you know a developer familiar with developing augmented reality applications for ‘iPhone/Android/Symbian/Desktop/Web/etc’.
If you develop augmented reality applications and are interested in refrals (I’m not looking for …

Augmented Reality Avatar Toys
Thursday, 6 Aug, 2009 – 9:45 | 2 Comments
Augmented Reality Avatar Toys

Here’s and interesting idea from Mattel to bring action figures from the James Cameron Avatar movie to life. You buy the toys, each of comes with an iTag. The iTag can be scanned with any …

Metaio AR Vision Video
Friday, 31 Jul, 2009 – 10:24 | 2 Comments
Metaio AR Vision Video

The guys at Metaio in San Francisco have just launch an augmented reality vision video for some of the products they are working on.
Unfortunately the video doesn’t appear to have sound so you’ll have to …

Augmented Reality Shopping App
Thursday, 30 Jul, 2009 – 14:13 | One Comment
Augmented Reality Shopping App

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Ok this application is obviously not for us guys. We are happy visiting one shop, trying on one pair …

Transformers Demo
Wednesday, 29 Jul, 2009 – 13:52 | No Comment
Transformers Demo

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The Transformers ‘We Are Autobots’ demo has been around for a month now.  What’s good about the demo is …

Augmented Reality Pool
Monday, 27 Jul, 2009 – 14:05 | No Comment
Augmented Reality Pool

We have a air hockey table here and I must admit that I am a bit of a wiz. Our security guard has never played before and has been threatening to give me a game …

Another AR business card example
Friday, 24 Jul, 2009 – 11:05 | 2 Comments
Another AR business card example

I blogged a little while back about AR business cards.  I thought at the time that just displaying a simple image was a bit of missed opportunity but OneZeroThrice.com have posted an excellent example of …

Augmented Reality Face Recognition
Wednesday, 22 Jul, 2009 – 9:12 | No Comment
Augmented Reality Face Recognition

TAT have a rather nice augmented ID demo that is a mash up with face recognition. I believe this is only a concept right now (ie vapourware) but cool nether-the-less.

ReadWriteWeb have rather longer description of …

Augmented Reality Business Cards
Thursday, 16 Jul, 2009 – 17:51 | One Comment
Augmented Reality Business Cards

No blog from me for a while (again). I travelled out to San Francisco last week and have been suffering from lost bags and Man Flu. (story so far) Man Flu as you know is …

ARhrrrrr The Zombies Are Coming
Tuesday, 26 May, 2009 – 8:25 | No Comment
ARhrrrrr The Zombies Are Coming

You can’t beat a bit of zombie action.

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ARhrrrrr is a pretty fun looking zombie AR game developed for Indiecade …

AR demo from Total Immersion
Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 – 13:15 | No Comment
AR demo from Total Immersion

Good morning, Wednesday again and a crappy one at that. If your an Arsenal supporter then you’ll know what I mean.

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LevelHead the best ever AR demo
Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 – 9:56 | One Comment
LevelHead the best ever AR demo

Twitter seems to be full of old stuff for the last few days, augmented Sasquatch and magic trick demos are re-tweeting around.
As there is nothing new, I thought I’d add to the mayhem with a …

Augmented Trading Cards Demo
Saturday, 2 May, 2009 – 21:20 | No Comment
Augmented Trading Cards Demo

When I was a kid I collected football cards, they came with really cheap pink gum and the object was to collect all the players and stick them in an album you’d never open again. …

Wearable Augmented RealityTech And Feeling Low
Thursday, 30 Apr, 2009 – 8:33 | 4 Comments
Wearable Augmented RealityTech And Feeling Low

I met up last night with a buddy of mine who is doing his MBA. I’ve had a burning idea for mobile a augmented reality  application for awhile now and wanted to run it past …