aio junaio junaio junaio junaio jun

By the way:

To follow junaio, follow my charming colleague Danika on www.twitter.com/twitt_AR

To see what´s happening on the new stage for mobile augmented reality and behind the scenes, go check out the all new http://junaio.wordpress.com

And finally, kind of a home story about some AR players can be found here: http://www.ugotrade.com/2009/10/24/ismar-2009-an-augmented-reality-top-chef-coopetition/

metaio Is Fair

Just wanted to share the latest coverage from our technology fair this year. Of course it is not like ISMAR, but we had 180 guests from around 25 countries, 30 live-demos and a lot of interesting new ideas and projects coming up. Maybe see you netx year …

REPORTAR

We only need one man like Ori to cover all the latest and best in augmented reality at the ISMAR. Finger stretched, fully trained, no need for sleep and on fire he will bring you the complete package. Check out the (un-) official blog for the AR event of the year.

If you still do not know, what is happening there, here a little sneak preview.

And Hey, of course i did not want to go to Orlando while winter is arriving in Munich. Couldn´t wait to see my old fella… Grrrrr!

By the way: I am working on junaio (see picture) – which has been presented already at one ISMAR workshop: www.socialaugmentedreality.org

Hand From Above

Big respect to Chris O`Shea and his work for FACT: Foundation for Art & Creative Technology and Liverpool City Council for BBC Big Screen Liverpool and the Live Sites Network. To see why the kids on the picture above have so much fun, got to this website or watch the video, which refused to get embedded, here.

Chris answered my questions about the project as following: ” The software I wrote myself in c++ using the openFrameworks & openCv libraries. The BBC Big Screen is fitted with a CCTV camera, linked into a computer that runs the software then outputs to the screen. The software picks a person based on their proportions & how alone they are from other people, then tracks the blob over time using optical flow.  If the giant hand removes, flicks or shrinks a person, firstly it rubs out the person from the live video using the background reference pixels.  Then the tracked person is redrawn over the top in relation to what the hand is doing, i.e. being picked up, or flying out to the left of the screen (not shown in this video).  When the hand shrinks a person it redraws them into the video at half scale.  When there is too big a crowd it resorts to tickling people, with a random selection.”

Here are two pictures showcasing the magic behind this adorable installation:

Augmented Reality Is An Award Winning Technology

It generated a lot of buzz in the media planning and advertising strategist / planners newswires, but this  thing has not been mentioned in the official “I love shockwave based augmented reality” blog, which you are reading at the moment. The campaign, which used the cover of Popular Science magazine as a stage for GE´s smart grid augmented reality advert, won the “Buzz Award” by the US american “Adweek” in the category Print. Here you can find the ADBUZZ  2009 winners and here you still can check out the most stable, robust and strategically interesting augmented reality print2web campaign of this year.

And because I like to do things very consequent, here´s the rest of the self-adulation programm for today: metaio has also won a “caught their eye” trophy at this year´s IBC and has won the Mobile Startups LaunchPad by GigaOm. I did not know, that we are a still a start-up, but I can use a quote of my mom here: you are always as old as you feel