Tag Archives: Zugara

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

Fashionista AR Dressing Room from Zugara

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Today RichRelevance and Zugara unveiled Fashionista, a social shopping experience using augmented reality on Tobi. While they still have the dreaded marker (for setting spatial coordinates), the motion capture controls and usefulness of home shopping make up for its brief … Continue reading →

Posted in augmented reality | Tagged amazon, augmented reality, future-technology, richrelevance, shopping, social shopping, tobi, Zugara | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in augmented reality | Tagged AR Games, augmented reality, Cyclopedia, future-technology, markerless, Pachube, reality recognition, RIM Scale, Sony, SREngine, the digital sea, UgoTrade, Usman Haque, Vision Library, Zugara | 4 Comments

Sing Along with Sean Kingston

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Augmented reality will bring new and interesting ways to embarrass ourselves. Really. The 19-year old reggae singer, Sean Kingston, has an upcoming album “Tomorrow,” due out September 22nd, that will include an AR marker in the CD case to be used … Continue reading →

Posted in augmented reality | Tagged augmented reality, Epic, future-technology, Lee Stimmel, marketing, Sean Kingston, the digital sea, Tomorrow, Zugara | 2 Comments

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

Zugara’s Cannonballz AR Game

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Tom Carpenter

Using AR and motion capture, along with a little social networking via Facebook, Zugara brings us a new AR game called Cannonballz. The game play is relatively simple, but it starts to show us what’s possible using AR and motion … Continue reading →