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Is AR market getting crowded?
Yesterday I was talking to someone and he told me that AR market seems to get crowded. Too many AR companies coming up. Too many non AR companies starting to do AR. I quoted him from Upanishads, “Out of abundance he took abundance and still abundance remains.”
top iPhone AR apps review
Augmented Reality has exploded so much that now there is even top AR apps in iPhone review. Very interesting indeed. Go here to see read more on it
Ubisoft is using Augmented Reality in Assassin’s Creed 2
It is quite interesting to see a game like Assassin’s Creed 2 using Augmented Reality. It uses a marker and you can find it here (right click and save as)
Since it is using the marker, and therefore does not give technological breakthrough you might feel it is nothing special. But it is actually quite cool. [...]
James Cameron goes Augmented with Avatar Merchandise
The latest to join in the AR band is fame director James Cameron [Titanic, Terminator, Aliens ] with his Avatar movie merchandise. If you buy any “Avatar” merchandise, it will have a AR marker embedded that you can point to your camera to see the 3D pop up. Although you probably won’t be able to do [...]
Is Augmented Reality a fad? We say NO
On 2nd Nov Chris Dannen of Fast Company wrote off AR with his article Put Your Phone Down: Augmented Reality Is Overblown. Two days later on 4th of Nov Robert Rice posted quite a few solid arguments explaining why AR is not overblown at all. We are no Robert Rice or any other AR visionaries. However, as we had been trying out small little things with AR last few months and showing around what we do to the people around us in Malaysia, we can assure any naysayers that AR is really here to stay. Let us tell you why we think this way.
A lot of cool AR example
Gamesalfresco has lots of really cool example. Just found out.
Spectacular growth in Augmented Reality expected via smartphones
On 23rd October ABI research announced that they anticipate Augmented Reality to have dramatic growth via smartphones. They expect the current $6m market to grow to $350m market by 2014. But here at FRM we think it will not just be a $350m market. It will be a few billion dollar market. Why we think so [...]
junaio Augmented Reality – adding new chapter
Would it not be cool to have a Jurrasic Park dinosaur running around at your backyard? And what if you didn’t need to have a Hollywood budget to do so. All you need is junaio in your smartphone. Looks like Layar is about to have some competition. Unfortunately it is currently available only in the [...]
Future vision on Augmented Reality
A quick entry about Future of AR by Robert Rice aka Curious Raven.
Track those stimulus dollars
If you are in the USA and you wanted to know where did all those stimulus dollars went, just set up your iPhone and point around. It uses the Layar Application to do this Tagging. Pretty cool (not sure how useful it is, but it is cool to see where your tax dollars went). GO [...]
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