Thomas K. Carpenter’s young adult trilogy, Gamers, has been called a cross between The Hunger Games and the Uglies trilogies by reviewers. His best selling short stories and novels can be found at all major online retailers.
Thomas also produces and edits an annual anthology about augmented reality called Mirror Shards. More information on the anthology, including how to submit to it each year, can be found on the publisher website of Black Moon Books.
He lives in St. Louis with his wife, two kids, and one oafishly large labrador retriever. Visit him online at www.thomaskcarpenter.com.
excellent book excerpt! I like your thinking, and look forward to reading your novel! I believe something like the ‘digital sea’ (perceptually real) will eventually exist, and am seeking to bring it to reality. Join us for the Immersive Tech summit next year!
Thanks.
I can’t wait to complete it. Hopefully in the fall it would be complete (and then published beginning of next year). And Immersion Tech summit sounds like an interesting event.
I’m an independent consultant and industry analyst focusing on Mobile Mixed and Augmented Reality. I am very active in the planning and coordinating of the upcoming ISMAR conference.
It going to take place in Orlando October 19-22. To find out more about this event, visit http://www.ismar-society.org/ismar2009/
There will be the traditional research and technology track as well as application sessions and a parallel program covering Arts, Media and Humanities using Augmented reality for culture, communication and art.
If you are not aware of it, I would also like to let you know about a special workshop I’m running on Monday October 19 about Mobile AR in which we will be covering the application/content development platforms, the vision for commercial mobile AR and the roadmap for developing a successful mobile AR industry.
You can find out more about the workshop on this page: http://www.ismar-society.org/ismar2009/mobilewand.php
I hope that you will let me know your plans with respect to ISMAR 2009 so that I can work with you to make sure you tap all the best people.
Many thanks for your time and I look forward to your reply.
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I’m trying to find a way to make it to ISMAR09. Noora has already contacted me about joining the industrial panel since I’m working with Metaio on some projects at Toyota. If I can find a way to go, the biggest issue will be having enough time to join all discussions I’d like to join.
hello,
you can see the beginning of a short-story about a childminder, augmented reality for kids and security issues here : http://magmaplasma.blogspot.com/2008/10/bifrost-52.html
It was published in the French magazine Bifrost http://www.belial.fr/catalogue/revue/bifrost-52
yes, i know it’s all in French but you don’t want an incomplete list ! (I’ll try and see if I can find others ! )
Sylvie Denis
hi, Tom i’m trying to experiment using the metaio unifeye software but i can’t make my own pattern, would you help me…
another issue that i have, i can’t import .wrl files i’m trying but always appear an error about encryption. if u can help me i would be very grateful.
Hello from France Tom! I am french and i fund your blog today. We have things in common, like the fact we both started our blogs in last February, and that we both love Augmented Reality (and Ted Conferences!).
My blog is a mix between advertising and augmented reality (2 passions in one blog).
Be sure I will come back in here, and if you are interested, here are the posts I made.
The first one is my best success :
http://publigeekaire.com/2009/06/10-applications-concretes-de-la-realite-augmentee/
and there are a lot of others right here :
http://publigeekaire.com/tag/realite-augmentee/
They are all in french, but the videos are usually in english and I think you will not have problems to understand them.
Have a nice week-end, Mathieu.
PS : good luck for you novel, i would also like to make someting like this, but until that, i keep writing posts about advertising in 2020
Great site you have, i am sure. I think it’s kinda hard to unite two passion in one blog, but you’ve done already, keep up your good work.
Tom, i admire your knowledge and your experience. I hope your novel launch soon, i am the first one who got it. Thank you.
Hi Tom, thanks for the ‘thanks’ over at the Dean Smith blog!
Tom, I found you while doing a search on You Tube for a tutorial on the Unifeye design trial version 1.0. You seem to really got it together. I was hoping I can get some help from you. How can I e-mail you? It’s for a project with this software for my son. Thank you.
Hi Tom,
This message is from a group of educators in Pennsylvania who have developed a technology and fabrication project that is in the process of raising a modest amount of money to build prototypes for gathering additional partners.
Our project, the Civil War Augmented Reality Project, is intended to enhance the experiences of people visiting Civil War sites. It is also intended to increase attendance and revenue for historic sites by offering both “high” and “low” tech experiences to best reach the majority of the population.
We feel that our project is fulfilling a need that educators, park workers, technology enthusiasts, and Civil War enthusiasts have discussed in the past: How can historic sites both raise educational value and public interest in their institutions though technology, while not alienating the non-technical history fans?
We have worked hard on the answer, and are interested in promoting our creative solutions.
We would like to make clear that the project is not intended solely for Pennsylvania. It is our hope that the project will expand to other venues, as we feel that we have the ability to use our ideas to enhance the experiences of all students at historic sites.
If you have a chance, please check out our blog:
http://acwarproject.wordpress.com/
And our fun, Civil-War flavored funding campaign on Kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jmummert/the-civil-war-augmented-reality-project
If you think that our project has merit, we would be delighted if you could mention it in your blog.
Here are a few other links of interest regarding our project:
A recent newspaper article:
http://www.ydr.com/ci_15435690
Other recent blog posts:
http://electricarchaeologist.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/civil-war-augmented-reality-project/
http://www.yorkblog.com/yorktownsquare/2010/07/linked-in-with-neat-york-count-48.html
Our Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Civil-War-Augmented-Reality-Project/126003620773256
Our Twitter account page:
http://twitter.com/ACWAR_Project
Thanks very much for considering us!
The Civil War Augmented Reality Project
Jeff Mummert- Hershey High School and York College of Pennsylvania
Art Titzel- Hershey Middle School
Jay Vasellas- Red Lion Area High School and York College of Pennsylvania
I am very interested in all things AR that we can plug in to the live art form of 3D street painting (chalk art). take a look at a post I put together about how we think 3D street painting can work well with AR and Quick Response at ‘The Business of Street Painting Art’ blog at http://businessofstreetpainting.typepad.com. And at this point in time, there are so many interesting concepts happening (such as these AR glasses in your recent post), its good to keep aware in any case.
Hi,
Augmented reality is increasing into new realms, as ThomasKCarpenter.com impressively documents. We would like to keep you up to speed on Marc Ecko’s Muse project, an example of a new AR application in the realm of fashion that encompasses accessibility, user interaction, and creativity. The augment-able interface is a hologram of Lindsay Lohan, the celebrity endorser spearheading the launch of Ecko’s Cut & Sew line. Users display a specialized glyph in a webcam-recorded video to activate her hologram. In the real world, users can move and manipulate the hologram while in the digital void, users alter Lindsay’s emotions which range from aggressiveness and rage to admiration and ecstasy. Users can then submit the recorded videos for a shot at winning $10,000!
There’s also is a separate contest for those who have video editing skills – after downloading a set of exclusive images and hologram content, users can record and edit their own projects! This group of entries will be judged separately by Marc and a select panel with the winner receiving a complete video editing system worth $3,000! Entry details can be found here: http://www.marceckomuse.com/competition
We’d love if you can share this with your readers, and even record a video! We’re also open to setting up a smaller promotional giveaway to accompany a post if this is something you’re interested in. Let me know what you think of the site and if you have any questions or need any additional assets please feel free to reach out.
Sincerely,
Dan
Hey Tom,
Just wanted to let you know about our new Kickstarter project called the OggBoard. It is a augmented reality platform that combines AR, iPhones and strategy gaming.
Right now we only have plans for and iPhone game, but we hope to have Android and tablet versions in the future.
Thanks so much and cheers!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samandbrock/the-oggboard
Sam Lytle
http://www.oggboard.com
sam@oggboard.com