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5 Things I Want Kinect To Do

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Tom Carpenter

The Kinect has become an indie revolution, open sourced and hacked to provide a wealth of effects we haven’t had access to for augmented reality. The Kinect Hacks site is doing a terrific job covering the revolution, but I want … Continue reading →

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Conservation Through Digitization

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Tom Carpenter

In my recently released novel The Digital Sea, the Ecoverse corporation is the Google-sized behemoth (or should I say Facebook since it’s 2011) that controls the networks and software that make up the ubiquitous augmented world. The company motto is Conservation through … Continue reading →

Posted in augmented reality, The Writer's Life, Writing / Publishing | Tagged amazon, augmented reality, conservation through digitization, espresso book machine, facebook, future-technology, google, print on demand, the digital sea | 2 Comments

Kinect Unleashed – Not Just For XBox Anymore

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Tom Carpenter

While Microsoft denies that the Xbox has been hacked, pure semantics I tell you, the new Kinect system has been unleashed for uses other than the ones planned by the giant of the redwoods. Adafruit Industries offered a $3,000 prize which was … Continue reading →

Posted in AR Games, augmented reality | Tagged adafruit industries, AR Games, augmented reality, future-technology, google, Kinect, microsoft, xbox | 1 Comment

Eye-Tracking Will Be The New Click-Throughs

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Tom Carpenter

Part of the Internet economy is built upon the “click-through” or CTR (Click Through Rate.) The CTR attempts to measure customer interest in a particular product. If a person finds the banner ad interesting enough, they will select it and … Continue reading →

Posted in augmented reality | Tagged augmented reality, bing, click through, eye tracking, future-technology, google | 5 Comments

Augmented Reality Year in Review – 2009

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

The year 2009 has been an important milestone in the development of augmented reality as an important future technology. While markers and marketing campaigns captured the early interest of the year, the bigger story was the porting of augmented reality to … Continue reading →

Posted in AR Games, augmented reality, Industrial AR | Tagged android, AR Consortium, AR Games, ARDevCamp, Augmented Planet, augmented reality, Blair MacIntrye, Bruce Sterling, Craig Kapp, Denno Coil, Enkin, future-technology, Gamaray, games alfresco, gene becker, google, Google Goggles, Int13, iPhone, ismar09, James Alliban, Junaio, Layar, Layer 3.0, metaio, mobile, neural interface, Nexus One, Noah Zerkin, Nokia, Ori Inbar, outdoor AR, Patty Maes, Programmer Joe, Robert Rice, Rouli Nir, sixth sense, the digital sea, Thomas Wrobel, Tim O'Reilly, Tish Shute, Total Immersion, UgoTrade, Unifeye, vuzix, Wikitude, Zugara | 29 Comments

8 Things That Are Possible With Google Goggles

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Unless you’ve been sleeping under a pile of old Commodore 64s, you’ve heard about the Google Goggle announcement. The service allows you to use pictures to search the web. The service is amazing in its own right. Check out the … Continue reading →

Posted in augmented reality | Tagged augmented reality, google, Google Goggles, Noah Zerkin, object recognition, reality recognition, RIM Scale | 4 Comments

ACME – One Piece of an Augmented World

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

The augmented world will exist as a shadow to the real one. Rouli from the Augmented Times posted on Friday about the ACME project (Augmented Collaboration in a Mixed Environment.) Leave it to a group of researchers to suck the life … Continue reading →

Posted in augmented reality, digital singularity | Tagged ACME, AR Games, augmented reality, augmented times, future-technology, google, google earth, illusion, ISMAR, MR Teleconferancing, perception, Rouli, second life | Comments Off

10 Things Your AR App Must Have to Succeed

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

With the iPhone OS 3.1 launch set to debut next month, I wanted to explore the features that are going to help make some AR apps succeed over others. We’re going to be seeing a spike of releases since many … Continue reading →

Posted in AR Games, augmented reality, Steal This AR Idea! | Tagged android, AR Games, Augment This!, augmented reality, EyePet, future-technology, games alfresco, google, innovation, iPhone, Layar, Nokia, OS 3.1, papervision, PS3, Rouli, Seinichi Kanemura, SREngine, the digital sea, vista, Zugara | 7 Comments

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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Leverage The Crowd To Fill The Cloud

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Augmented reality is only a medium (actually just a mashing together of other media), but content is king. To make use of computer data and images superimposed on real life we need content, but creating that content can be time consuming and … Continue reading →