The Return of “Weekest Links”

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. 

Yeti CGI showcasing Augmented Reality game prototype built with Metaio SDK  at the 2013 Game Developer’s Conference

Hello again! Though we haven’t had a Weekest links since (shhh) November 2012, Spring can be a fresh start for everyone. We’ll renew our regular Monday schedule starting next week and on- until then, check out the list below and don’t forget to subscribe!

metaio | junaio recap

Metaio shows off awesome Augmented Reality at GDC 2013, TweakTown [video]

Metaio Augmented Reality Interview @ the ARM booth, 2013 Game Developer’s Conference, featuring @traklord [video]

ARM exhibits Metaio Augmented Reality Product at GDC 2013, featuring @twitt_AR [video]

A Sneak Peak at HP Support’s Augmented Reality App (powered by the Metaio SDK) [video]

“Augmented Reality: What do businesses need to know?”, NetworkWorld [article] 

10 Augmented Reality technologies you should know about [slideshow]

SmarTech Publishing Report Says Google Glass Heralds a New Era For The Augmented Reality Business [press release]

Metaio to participate in annual European Satellite Navigation Competition [press release]

Our former intern Sebastian tells us how awesome we are [blog post]

Slanted Magazine, a fully augmented edition powered by Junaio [blog post]

webinars

Even though we have extensive documentation for all of our augmented reality software, we thought it was important to give developers, both experienced and new to our platform, the ability to get in-depth explanations on certain topics in the form of weekly webinars. You can sign up for the next Webinar, an advanced SDK session for iOS developers, right here on our dev portal (http://dev.metaio.com), along with recorded versions of all the other sessions, with topics like Content Creation, Intro to SDK, Intro to Junaio, Intro to Creator and more.

events

Next week is Aumenta.me 2013- the annual meeting point in Spain for the exchange of ideas, experiences, projects and developments of Augmented Reality in Education. Taking place April 20th in Valencia, Spain, it will showcase the best educational AR experiences, including workshops and seminar sessions. Learn more here: [event site]

Dates announced for InsideAR 2013, the most exciting augmented reality conference in the world [event site]

If you missed them, photos from the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona [album]

Registration is open for the Augmented World Expo, June 4-5 (formerly ARE). Get in with Early Bird discounts before it’s too late! [registration] (If you read this after April 9, use code AWE3META to get a special discount)

Join us at the annual AR Summit in London, June 20th [event site]

To follow Metaio on the road, make sure to check out our Events page as we update it through the year [events site]

pick of the week: April Fools 

Out of all the 4/01/13 shenanigans, these were some of our favorites: 

Guardian launches Augmented Reality specs to offer immersive liberal insight [article]

Google launches GMail Blue [video]

Nokia turns up the heat with its first microwave oven [article]

Improv Everywhere: Reverse Times Square

Not entirely sure what’s happening here, but it sure seems “augmented”….

3 Weeks of Weekest Links

The week shall inherit the internet. 

This is probably the coolest thing I have ever seen.

 

Mobile World Congress 2012 Recap

A Letter From CEO & Co-Founder Dr. Thomas Alt [blog]

metaio Introduces Augmented City Platform at Mobile World Congress [press release]

Texas Instruments Continues AR research for OMAP Platform at MWC [press release]

Arsalan and Trak talk to ARMdevices.net about next-gen AR software [video]

The 2012 Augmented City with 3-D Object Tracking [video]

Augmented Reality for an entire city (German) [article]

metaio at Mobile World Congress 2012: Unleashes Augmented City Platform [article]

metaio Unveils Augmented City Platform at MWC in Barcelona [article]

We had a party in Barcelona- TechCrunch came to it [article]

 

Game Developer Conference 2012 Recap

ARM provides developers with Optimization Platform for Mobile Gaming [press release]

Trak talks to ARM about the Augmented City and ARM Mali processors [video]

 

South By Southwest Interactive Recap

3M Curates Innovation Conversation during SXSW Interactive with AR App [press release]

3M develops augmented reality post-it note app [article]

3M to introduce Augmented Reality Post-It app [article]

App Lets You Pin Virtual Post-It Notes to a Real Wall [article]

 

Other cool stuff

Sappi Releases ‘The Standard Vol. 5, Special Effects’, which metaio augmented [press release]

Lisa Murphy & Kit Hinrichs of Studio Hinrichs talk about augmented print [video]

Junaio content partner Valpak launched an iPad native app [article]

Great post from Helen Papagiannis – add your voice to the conversation [blog]

Register for the Augmented Reality Event (ARE) May 8-9 in Santa Clara, CA [website]

(Here’s a discount code courtesy of metaio: METAIO375)

 

Non AR Pick(s) of the Last Three Weeks

Honestly, not a damn clue. But luckily I have people that send me stuff!

Vermeer Interactive Display from Microsoft

 

 

Finally- LEGO Transformer Game Boy Tetris in no particular order [article]

 

 

Mobile World Congress & metaio: A letter from CEO Dr. Thomas Alt

Dear metaio ecosystem,

With Augmented Reality getting more and more traction in the smart-phone domain, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is becoming increasingly important for metaio and our eco-system. For this year’s Congress we have teamed up with a number of industry leaders from the chipset industry to showcase our technology. Also we have lined up a number of exciting product and technology announcements for the show – we will inform you on this prior to the show.

As for now – please make sure to plan us in for your visit at the Mobile World Congress 2012 and learn how metaio enables the mobile AR ecosystem !

We have created a special landing page for MWC at www.metaio.com/MWC2012

You can meet us and see our technology at the following locations:

-                 Texas Instruments – Hall 8, A84

-                 ST Ericsson partner zone – Hall 7 D45

-                 ARM – Hall 1 C01

-                 Intel – Hall 8 B192

-                 metaio booth – Hall 2.1 C60

We would like to invite selected partners to visit us in our private metaio lounge – only 10 minutes from the MWC Venue. If you are interested to see the latest and greatest in AR, please write an email through the MWC site above.

Check out the latest press coverage about metaio: 

Engadget: Taking next-gen augmented reality for an ARM-powered walk around the block: http://goo.gl/4FcTC

Wired: An open letter to augmented reality: http://goo.gl/77oDI

 

Dr. Thomas Alt, CEO metaio 

http://www.metaio.com

 

 

Augmented Reality On Every Smartphone by 2014

If you haven’t heard from TechCrunch, Dexigner, or Augmented.org, this year’s insideAR brought some very significant developments for metaio. To sum it up, we made three important announcements to over 450(!) attendees:

• The release a free version of the Mobile SDK, soon to be integrated with a game engine
• The release of an AR-publishing tool, junaio Creator, to enable virtually anybody to create AR content for junaio
• Strategic partnerships with the leading chipset IP supplier ARM and mobile platform developer ST-Ericsson on joint R&D

What this means for the industry

Mobile SDK is now free

This is a big deal. AR is a young industry- we want to see it into adulthood. We want developers, researchers, students, newcomers etc to be able to test the limits of their imaginations and creativity with one of the most comprehensive and advanced mobile AR solutions out there. I can’t wait to watch these independent developers shape the future of AR applications in their endeavors.

The junaio Creator

User interface and workflow are two of the most important things that any software provider must consider- we want both of these aspects to be more streamlined, more convenient, more natural- and that’s why we announced the junaio Creator. It’s tool that takes all of the image recognition, the natural feature tracking, and the complex algorithms of junaio and reduces that magic to two simple words: point and click. Whether  you’re creating a junaio channel or utilizing our junaio Plugin to add a feature to an existing app, the junaio Creator allows you to do this without a single line of code. Check out the demo in the TechCrunch article and see for yourself.

Formal Collaborations with ARM & ST-Ericsson

I’ve been saying this for years: the surest way to enable the smoothest most immersive AR experiences is to ensure the optimization of the hardware. Though we’ve already been optimizing our software for these wonderful mobile devices that pepper our lives, metaio can now work directly with these processing and chipset providers to find the best way to ensure that mobile devices are AR-ready before they hit the shelves.

In closing

 

 

We have a genuine passion for what we do.  It may seem as though we ‘re making bold statements, but please understand that it comes from a shared excitement, an almost child-like fascination in its innocence at seeing dreams becoming reality, not just 3D and digital content (though we do that too).

Augmented Reality on Every Smartphone by 2014- It will be magic.

Magic.

The Augmented City

Augmented Reality will fundamentally change the way how we access, understand, enjoy and share digital information. The vision of being able to point a mobile device camera at anything in the real world and instantly receive contextual information is beginning to take shape as a roadmap to the future of AR. Enabling technologies and the vast growth of content will turn AR into a daily-used standard interface. The 2011 insideAR event in Munich, September 26-27, will demonstrate that AR is here to stay.

An outlook on the Roadmap of AR and the vision of an Augmented City – where contextual, digital information displayed in the real world is only a fingertip away – can be seen at this joint demo by the Media Processing Division of ARM and the R&D department by metaio:

Come and visit us at insideAR and experience the Augmented City of Munich!