Monthly Archives: July 2009

Augment This! (Issue #7)

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

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Augmented Vision Demo in Dead Space

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

While we’re years away from achieving augmented vision, the game Dead Space gives us a nice preview of some of the features that would be available.  In the game, the HUI (Human User Interface) is explained as a holograph, but … Continue reading →

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Can We At Least Have A Reason To Use AR?

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Clearly who ever made this augmented reality campaign didn’t read this post. Not only are they repeating what’s been done a hundred times already, but the technology tie-in has absolutely no point.  Star Trek Enterprise in your room, sure, I … Continue reading →

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UgoTrade Interview #2 with Ori Inbar

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

UgoTrade brings us another excellent interview with Ori Inbar and explains it will be the first of many with leaders in the augmented reality movement.  Stop by and read the whole thing in its full-length goodness.  Here’s a few highlights: … Continue reading →

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Mindgames with NeuroSky

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Recently the company NeuroSky released its product to the market called MindSet which includes the game NeuroBoy.  The system translates your electrical brain impulses into a control system for your computer.  While I haven’t used it to determine how hard … Continue reading →

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BMI Monkey Business

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

If you’ve been reading this blog awhile, you’ll know I have a fascination with brain-machine interfaces.  Both Toyota and Honda have developed thought controlled devices and there are a number of products on the market that can control your computer.  … Continue reading →

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Around the ARNet

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Top news around the augmented reality sites seems to be about the iPhone 3.1 release in September and how it will allow for AR apps.  Will be interesting to see how this changes some business plans. Before that all the … Continue reading →

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iPhone Augmented Reality Apps in September

Posted on July 25, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

It looks like iPhone will sneak in under Ori’s three month window he gave in the Open Letter to Apple.  While we won’t ever know if the letter had any affect on the secretive company, I’d like to believe it did.  … Continue reading →

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PS3 EyePet Release Date

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Will the Playstation3 EyePet be the “must-have” game of Christmas like the Wii was a few years ago?  It might be in Europe, the release date of October 2nd has been announced.  While the US and Japan dates haven’t been announced … Continue reading →

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ARtisan 1.0 Launch

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

OneZeroThrice has released ARtisan, an augmented reality library for developers.  The goal of ARtisan is stated as: ARtisan is a front end and management system for FLARToolkit and Papervision3D. The goal of ARtisan is to facilitate developers in creating rich, … Continue reading →

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