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Metaio’s Augmented Reality Worker Support

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Tom Carpenter

Markerless tracking has come a long way in the last year.  The downside of this system is the custom graphics for the visual manual.  It’s hard enough writing instructions for thousands of jobs in a production facility right now.  This … Continue reading →

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Real Time Planar Detection on an iPhone

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Tom Carpenter

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 the … Continue reading →

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Three Things We Can Learn From Disney

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Tom Carpenter

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 augmented … Continue reading →

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Augmented Reality Scale Update (Reality Recognition)

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

About a month ago, I proposed an augmented reality scale to help us define different applications of the technology.  While the post received good feedback, I felt that it could use more refinement.  This update will define the scaling between … Continue reading →

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Vampire Diaries Augmented Reality Storescapes

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

The last few months, we bloggers have decried the gimmicky nature of most augmented reality marketing campaigns.  Mostly, the problem lies in their clunky implementations of the technology.  Printing out markers and holding them up to the screen are as … Continue reading →

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Barriers to Greatness

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Good product design is hard to create. Interacting with the product should be effortless, engaging and should stimulate the user to think, “What have I been doing all these years without this product?”  When products are created with the end-user in … Continue reading →

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Zugara Social Shopper

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Zugara brings us the next installment of AR shopping.  The company is an advertising agency that uses interactive marketing.  They have an impressive client list including the company I work for, Toyota.  Their new AR product – The Webcam Social … Continue reading →

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Snowflake Demo

Posted on June 14, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

If you’ve ever been skiing, then you know part of your time on the lift is spent figuring out where you are on the mountain, where you’re going to go next and hoping you don’t lose the rest of your … Continue reading →

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Around the Net

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

I’d like to take a moment and review the AR happenings around the net in the last month about augmented reality. * Not one, but two AR frameworks are being released – Layar and Gamaray; both for Google’s Android.  Augmented … Continue reading →

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Layar – The First Reality Browser

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

I’m not going to go into too much detail, because Rouli gives us an excellent run down on the Augmented Times, but I think this is an important step in “creating the cloud“.  Who knows, Layar could be the early … Continue reading →

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