Tag Archives: iPhone

Paranormal Game Review

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Thomas K. Carpenter

Tweet “It’s better than Angry Birds,” said my nine-year old daughter. And who am I to argue about that, but given that Angry Birds has dominated our house for the last two months, I was just a little surprised. Now … Continue reading →

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A World Without Gatekeepers

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Thomas K. Carpenter

TweetIt used to be that every industry had its gatekeepers. Music had the fat guys with cigars that Pink Floyd loved to sing about.  Factories had foreman that slapped each other on the back.  Corporations had bosses that controlled resources. … Continue reading →

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AirRaid – Social Augmented Reality Game

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Thomas K. Carpenter

TweetThe production values on these indie game trailers boggle my mind. The game initially reminds me of Conquest, but with a lot more bells and whistles.  Clover Studios has brought together location based gaming and tower defense, which makes for … Continue reading →

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Real Time Planar Detection on an iPhone

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Thomas K. Carpenter

Tweet Not the snazziest of article titles but I couldn’t think of anything catchier.  That point brings me to the addendum topic of this blog post, which is the unsexy nature of the hard work that goes on behind the scenes in … Continue reading →

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Three Things We Can Learn From Disney

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Thomas K. Carpenter

Tweet Last year at ISMAR09, the keynote speech from Mark Mine of the Disney Imagineering group, really intrigued me.   I had been a hardcore Disney hater before that, but Mark’s behinds-the-scenes look at the technology of Disney, specifically how they used … Continue reading →

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3D Hologram ON your iPhone

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Thomas K. Carpenter

Tweet From the guys that brought you NudeIt. I had cold shudders thinking of what people might actually scan into a hologram if this were real.

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iPhone 3GS vs iPhone 4 For Augmented Reality

Posted on July 17, 2010 by Thomas K. Carpenter

TweetAside from the antenna problems, its nice to see incremental improvements on magic lens augmented reality.

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5 Things To Do With Junaio Glue and LLA Markers

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Thomas K. Carpenter

Tweet With the live video access on the iPhone OS 4.0, Metaio is looking to make a splash with its Glue technology in the Junaio AR browser. They would like to show how the iPhone can do more than GPS AR … Continue reading →

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First Image Processing iPhone AR App in AppStore

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Thomas K. Carpenter

TweetNow I can’t guarantee that it’s the first, but it’s a start.  The Faces app comes from Pixelshed and is available in the AppStore right now. Make fun of your friends by putting new faces on their heads and share these images via … Continue reading →

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Gigaputt – Augmented Reality Golf

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Thomas K. Carpenter

TweetMake the world your golf course. That’s the tagline of the new iPhone app Gigaputt from Gigantic Mechanic.  Instead of clubs, you swing your iPhone in a Wii-like manner (though the accuracy is no where near the same) and hit your ball. … Continue reading →

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