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

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

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

Publigeekaire :
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.

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

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