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AR to interact with your everyday world

Fellow reader Brett Jones sent me a video of his (and his team) work that they’re currently presenting at ISMAR, the AR conference : Build Your World and Play In It: Interacting with Surface Particles on Complex Objects…

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Future Rock Band

Yay, another useful futur AR application ! (through ImmersiveTech)

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Playstation Move – 3D Tracker

In the end of 2006, Sony was already talking about it. Now they’ve finally made a demonstration at GDC of their upcoming 3D tracker, named Playstation Move : Tt has gyroscopes, accelerometers, magnetometer for high rate updates and…

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Augmented Reality pool game

In his blog Xavier Gouchet talks about a really nice application example that will be shown at Laval Virtual in april : an AR pool game ! Queen’s University Authors: Samuel Jordan, Michael Greenspan Abstract: ARPool is an…

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Quick Links #1

I’ve started using Twitter to post interesting VR links when I don’t have time to make a full post about them. Here’s a summary of these links : – Barco about the light efficiency of their stereo systems…

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Making fun of AR

I just laughed so much when I saw this video.. It exactly summarizes the current state of AR for marketing: useless! Simply displaying an object is boring! Adding crappy animations is boring! Come on guys, be creative, add…

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Laval Virtual 2009

The 11th edition of Laval Virtual has been held from the 22th to the 26th of April 2009, and to me it was one of the nicest edition ever! As the conference center was moved a bit further…

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Laval Virtual 2009 – Augmented Reality

There were four students games using AR technology : – Cubes sur Cubes, ATI / Paris 8 – – Qui Suis-Je? (ATI / Paris 8 ) – – The now famous LevelHead – – Scope, Ecole de Design…

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Killing zombies in AR

(The Laval Virtual wrap-up is still on its way, don’t worry 😉 Fellow reader David Cochard, with Kimberly Spreen, created a project at Georgia Tech and SCAD-Atlanta with advisors Blair MacIntyre and Tony Tseng, an AR zombie killing…

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AR Magic

Back from Laval Virtual, I’m of course preparing a post about the 11th edition! Thanks to Xavier for this great video, which is realtime AR !! As stated on the YouTube page : ALL THE GRAPHICS ON THIS…

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