Monthly Archives: April 2009

The Holodeck Is Born

Posted on April 19, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Sometimes laughter is worth a thousand pictures.  The creative superstars at Ideo Labs have created what they call iCube, or what most would recognize to be a holodeck.  While you don’t get a complete first hand view of the experience, … Continue reading →

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AR Anime Girl

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Warning! The video contains a Japanese anime AR cutie.  Over on Spill they bring us three videos.  One is the Eye of Judgement video that has been seen many times around various AR sites.  The middle AR anime video shows us how simple … Continue reading →

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300 Billion RFID Tags

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

The future is not yet decided. Currently, the AR movement is in the early stages of its Darwinian development.  Lots of little critters are crawling out from the seas to feast upon the abundance of food.  One of these critters … Continue reading →

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AR for Industry

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Today I had a nice phone conferance with Thomas and Jan from Metaio.  Jan is the author of the Augmented Reality Blog.  Jan had contacted me after reading my writeup about the use of AR in manufacturing based on a Microsoft … Continue reading →

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More Philosophy for Entrepreneurs

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Tim Ferriss on his popular Four Hour Work Week blog, had an interested guest post about the practical use of philosophy in business from Ryan Holiday.  Ryan focuses on the branch of philosophy called Stoicism.  I’m not going to further dissect his … Continue reading →

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Toyota iQ AR Video

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

I’m almost embarrassed I haven’t seen this earlier, since I work for Toyota, but better late than never.  Not much to it, but it’s nice to see AR popping up in my neck of the woods.  The best part comes … Continue reading →

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SREngine’s Item Recognition

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Rouli at the Augmented Times found an interesting AR project from a Japanese developer, Sein Kanemura.   The key facet of his engine is that it is markerless.  While I couldn’t quite pick up the exact method of his markerless technology, … Continue reading →

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Touch Screen Monitor

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Last night I was wondering if it would be possible to convert a PC monitor into a touchscreen using some of the concepts of augmented reality.  If the web cam was pointed at the computer to “see” it, but not … Continue reading →

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More Twitter + AR

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

In this post, I showed you a neat application of twitter and augmented reality from Pek Pongpaet.  Squidder has upped the ante by adding facial reckognition to his version of “twitter + augmented reality.” Facial recognition meets Twitter (kind of) from … Continue reading →

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Viva La Kindle2 Revolution

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

The Kindle2 is not revolutionary for the reasons you think. It’s sleek, stylish and has more features than you can shake a stick at. It allows for fast book downloads so you can start reading it before you’ve had your margarita … Continue reading →

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