Zoo Monster: An Augmented Reality Project with Junaio, by Certified Developers AVK Terwey [video]
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Vote for the Metaio SDK, the Mitsubishi Enterprise MeView, The IKEA Catalog and the AREngine in the 2013 Augmented World Expo Auggies Competition! [Vote]
Developers: Sign up for this week’s webinar, Augmented Reality Content Creation [sign up]
Even more stuff for developers: Submit your intent to compete in the first-ever Metaio International Developers Contest, with grand prizes including software licenses and a trip to Munich to present at the 2013 InsideAR [contests]
Intelligent Computing meets Augmented Reality: Brutus guides you through Ohio State University [article]
there are things that are happening
7 Standout Google Glass apps you can download right now [Mashable]
Forget Google Glass: Recon debuts Android-friendly glasses at I/O [CNET]
Epson tries its hand at high-tech glasses [USA Today]
Meta 1 augmented reality headset launches on Kickstarter [Slashgear]
How two Valve Engineers walked away with the company’s augmented reality glasses [The Verge]
We always like to highlight incredible work built on our software, which is why we’re thrilled to tell you about this awesome project from Winnipeg-based Zenfri, “Clandestine Anomaly”. This will be the first mobile game that utilizes vision-based augmented reality, GPS, and actual real-world elements. Check out their video on Kickstarter and help support the launch of this amazing augmented reality game!
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Seeing things differently: are brands missing the boat with Augmented Reality? [The Drum]
Developer Sander Veenhof merges 3-D printing with Augmented Reality in the Ultimarker [blog]
Ever play Jenga? Ever play Jenga….on Augmented Reality? [JengAR video]
Cronovizor: The AR Time Viewing Machine (powered by Junaio) [video]
Nimlok utilizes Metaio software to visualize custom exhibits in 3-D [whitepaper]
Registration is open for the Augmented World Expo, June 4-5 (formerly ARE). Use code AWE3META to get a special discount, courtesy of Metaio. Come see Metaio deliver unmatched insight on the industry along with the latest and greatest of AR demos, including the brand-new AREngine! [registration]
Meet Metaio at the Augmented Reality Summit, June 20th in London [event site]
Interested in speaking, sponsoring or attending InsideAR, the most exciting event in the augmented reality industry? Contact us! [event site]
pick of the week: Oculus VR used to simulate death by guillotine
Metaio and Junaio partner Concepteers GmbH has released yet another very cool project. This time, they worked with Toshiba Germany to place Toshiba products directly into the mobile user’s living room using augmented reality. Or office, or car, or basically anywhere you could use a phone!
The Toshiba Digital Living Room app works together with Toshiba’s Product Catalog to allow mobile users in the DACH region to visualize reduced-scale products like L4, M6, L7, M8 and M9 Televisons or the Qosmio X870, Satellite P870 and Satellite U920t notebooks.
Michael Mathieu, Managing Director of Concepteers, says: “We went with Metaio as the AR provider since it is widespread and offers an advanced AR feature set that allows us to develop the best possible AR experience for our customers.”
Concepteers is a valued partner of Metaio, and continues to deliver amazing augmented reality projects with our technology. Check them out on Facebook or visit their website to learn more about the company and the projects they release.
The app is available today for both Google Play and iOS devices. You can visit Toshiba’s website to learn more about the augmented reality app at http://toshiba.de/ar or just scan this convenient QR code with your device (hopefully using Junaio!) to be directed automatically to the experience.
Metaio is very happy to announce the start of the Metaio International Augmented Reality Developer Contests, with 4 separate categories open for competition. Design incredible content; launch the best AR Game yet; build an app that solves a real-world problem; or try your hand at Junaio and publish the most “popular” channel.
Grand prize is a trip to Munich this fall for the annual InsideAR augmented reality conference where you will present your entry to some of the world’s most renowned technology visionaries and professionals. Good luck, and submit your intent to compete today!
Registration is open for the Augmented World Expo, June 4-5 (formerly ARE). Use code AWE3META to get a special discount, courtesy of Metaio. Come see Metaio deliver unmatched insight on the industry along with the latest and greatest of AR demos, including the brand-new AREngine! [registration]
Meet Metaio at the Augmented Reality Summit, June 20th in London [event site]
Interested in speaking, sponsoring or attending InsideAR, the most exciting event in the augmented reality industry? Contact us! [event site]
pick of the week: “White Mean Wearing Google Glass” Tumblr.
I’m not entirely sure what this really says about the future of wearable computing, but it’s certainly a talking point. It also highly amusing to see techworld celebrities like Pete Cashmore (below) and Joshua Topolsky sporting the famous glasses in glamour-shot-like glory. I can’t decide whether we’re going to look back on these with awe or ridicule. Think Game Boy vs. 80′s cellphone. Mix in that it’s turning into a fashion statement and there’s a high probability it will be the latter. I’m hoping for the best.
If you haven’t already heard, Metaio has expanded its US operation to Dallas, Texas, longtime technology hub and host to companies like AT&T, RIM, Ericsson and of course, Texas Instruments.
It’s from the latter that we welcome our newest member, Rajesh Narasimha. Before joining Metaio, Rajesh was a member of TI’s Video, Imaging and Vision Lab in the System and Applications R&D Center. There he authored and co-authored more than 35 publications while filing more than 10 patents.
Holding both a Masters and PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering, the +7 years of computer vision experience Rajesh brings to the Metaio US team will be invaluable as we continue our efforts to create hardware that will accelerate augmented reality experiences current and future mobile devices.
From Rajesh: “Metaio is the industry leader in AR technology and I feel that with my background and experience I can contribute to the existing and emerging areas of embedded augmented and vision technology.”
Metaio has a long history of working with mobile and semiconductor platforms all over the world. We hope to both continue and bolster new and existing relationships in our pursuit of introducing the AREngine into mobile devices, just as we announced at the 2013 Mobile World Congress. The new office in Dallas is a huge step towards making that happen
As the span of Metaio grows, so too does the company- Metaio is hiring for nearly all development and business roles! Interested in joining the team? Check out our Career page and learn more about the company.
My name is Sebastian and I did a one-week internship in the Munich offices of Metaio. Since I have been interested in Augmented Reality (AR) for a long time, I discovered metaio because I already enjoyed their app, Junaio. My main advisor and “personal coach“ was Matthias Greiner, who was extremely hospitable, showing me the company and explaining everything that they do at Metaio. From the first day, I had my own computer and workplace where I could explore different Junaio channels. Especially in the beginning, I was very happy that Matthias spoke German with me, but with most of the international staff I had to speak in English, which was a good chance for me to practice my language skills.
After these “first contacts” with Metaio and Augmented Reality I got my first tasks and was really part of the team. I was allowed to use, for the whole week, the very powerful software Metaio Creator and learned more and more about this program and its potentials. As time flew by, I learned a lot about tracking and finally I was allowed to create my own channel. Eventually, on Friday my channel had been published in the Junaio AR browser.
The picture shows Sebastians trackables of his business cards
Too bad that this was also my last day! I hated to go, but – if I get the chance and Metaio agrees to give a “bothersome” scholar trainee a second chance – I really want to come back for another internship in this great company.
This, unfortunately only for one week, internship was one of the best weeks in my life and that is not a lie!
Sebastian
Dear Sebastian,
We really enjoyed your company and were definitely amazed at how fast you grasped the Metaio idea! It was great to see how quickly you managed to work with the Metaio Creator and understood what is important to know. We hope you are proud about your own junaio channel and will surprise your classmates and teachers with it!
As soon as you are free to join the Metaio team we would be happy to welcome you again!
We’re going to take the focus off of the upcoming insideAR for just a moment while we tell you about this very cool project from developers Marius Hügli and Martin Kovacovsky, who worked with the Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
Marius helped to implement augmented reality powered by metaio technology in this permanent museum exhibition focusing on the rise and fall of Celtic culture in Switzerland, in a project commissioned by Basel studio Anex Roth (The book used for the Augmented Reality experience was written by Valentin Homberger). Marius has been kind enough to provide us tons of photos of the exhibition and the experience, as well as the video that the team produced.
To learn more about other applications of metaio technology in museums, check out these twolinks. More information below:
“For a permanent archaeological exhibition of the Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) we created an Augmented Reality book about the Celtic culture. Divided into six chapters the book talks about the rise and fall of the Celts with the focus on Switzerland. Our goal for this project was to create a highly innovative and playful experience. Both the content and the installation should be memorable and create several “wow” moments. On a magical journey the user learns about Celtic history, art, living and warfare. The AR events reach from informative motion graphics to complex interactions, such as conducting an archeological dig!
This project was commissioned by Basel, CH based studio Anex & Roth which designed the exhibition. We also worked closely with archeologist Valentin Homberger who wrote the copy and created three 3D models. Our work was focused on designing the book, creating most of the multimedia content and imagery, programming all interactions and concepting the installation.”
Completely free for development, the deployment cost of only 3.000€ (3,750$) per application allows for the integration of Augmented Reality applications even in websites of small companies with tight budgets. Developers and service providers can promote their services to new and interesting target groups, who may not have wanted to invest in AR technology previously.
Ready for e-commerce and the social web
The metaio Web SDK delivers the necessary technology to create online Augmented Reality applications for e-commerce which can also be integrated with social platforms like Facebook, allowing websites to benefit from the power of the word-of-mouth recommendations of their users.
We are very happy to share the great news: our technology has been used for the first time at fairs for official communication! Our Certified Developer Concepteers GmbH has developed the Drupa app based on the junaio Plugin for the Drupa fair, which serves the print and media industry. This is a great example showing that metaio‘s software is a unique tool for bringing extra content to various scenarios and usage models.
In the last year AR rapidly established an interesting and more personal connection between product and end-user. When the reader sees the advertisement via a smartphone or a tablet using the mobile application based on the junaio software, a 3D animation starts up on the screen. This directs the user to the Drupa’s website, which provides extra content to the exhibition.
Although print is still the leading medium, this digital innovation elevates the traditional, well known print to a whole new level by making it helpful and exciting. AR establishes a unique dialog between the company and the user bringing the latest information right into the customer’s hands and providing up-to-dated information just a click away.
Concepteers has many years of experience in the media industry combined with solid experience in the IT business consulting. Concepteers develop cross marketing concepts to successfully target their audience through a multi-channel strategy. They have become metaio’s Certified Developer based on exceptional quality of their work on the metaio’s Augmented Reality junaio Plugin software.
Concepteers Creative Director Michael Sommer at the annual Drupa convention
junaio is software like no other. It is smart and offers brilliant opportunities too. Using junaio developers can create interesting applications like the Drupa app. AR is a great potential for buyers, advertisers and service providers. Thanks to junaio the classic ways of communication are now upgraded to a new level, providing experiences like never before.
Circa Mobile LLC, started by developer Mark Skarulis, is trying to raise money for a mobile application that will let you place and remove digital content in the real-world in a process he has dubbed “Ghosting”. Ghost the image in, Ghost the image out- freely experiment with reality by placing historical, contextual, relevant or artistic information in actual space, wherever you are!
Mark used the powerful metaio Mobile Software Development Kit to assist him in creating this great experience. We’re very proud to be mentioned in the video and we wish Mark and Circa Mobile LLC the best of luck in raising money for their app! Visit the link above, back the project, and help bring this new Augmented Reality user interface “Ghosting” to life!
Yes, I realize the inherent irony of what I just wrote. Lay off.
REVOLUTIONARY CIRCA APP REDEFINES IMAGES FOR MOBILE WORLD
Circa is the evolution of images. Currently, evocative photography is lost in a sea of mundane portraits and filtered pictures of food. We can now be more creative with our images through Circa! Circa returns fidelity and depth to digital imagery so you not only see photos, but also connect to that moment, feeling as if you are there!
With our patent-pending technology, all images are pasted onto reality for others to experience that moment as it truly occurred, natural to the eye. We call this ghosting. A skateboarder can ghost a photo performing a trick. Architects can ghost future plans, Graffiti artists can ghost creations to walls without destroying physical property. Anyone can ghost artwork, virtual signage, or even create their own augmented reality world using photographs, images and more.
Circa also provides a new way to explore documentary, presenting our history as it occurred. Circa connects us with our past in an new unique way. Anyone with an iOS device can soon witness and recall history as experiences, firsthand. Circa Mobile LLC is excited to be working with local Historical Societies in Los Angeles to return archived photos to their origin for all to witness in context. Participating organizations include The Los Angeles Public Library, Redondo Beach Historical Museum, Hermosa Beach Historical Society, Manhattan Beach Historical Society, Redondo Beach ELKS, USC Digital Library and local photographer Robi Hutas. Circa will ghost over 300 historical photographs along the coast to be launched later this year.
Over the next month, we invite the public to back the project on Kickstarter so that we can bring the Circa App to the App Store in late 2012 for every hometown to enjoy. Circa Mobile LLC has partnered with Regard Inc. (www.regard.com) to develop the Circa App Pilot using the Metaio Mobile SDK. (www.metaio.com) We can currently ghost photos and view them in scale at any location. However, we need to refine the app and release it so millions of users can create independently. When readers fund the project on Kickstarter, they will be the first group to beta test the app on iOS Devices before its release on the App Store later this year.
For more information, visit our website circaapp.com
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