Weekest Links for August

And everything after. 

“No, ~you’re~ too much!!” *

 

metaio | junaio recap

Congratulations to mediagrand on winning a Custom metaio Mobile SDK [blog]

Did you win a trip to gamescom? Learn more about the project from Augmented Minds [blog]

Business Development Manager Brendan Scully waxes poetic in his interview with ARNews.tv [video]

There’s still time to “Take Part” in the 2012 Samsung Take Part: 2012 Augmented Reality Android games [download]

IKEA Augmented Reality Catalog is a step in the right direction [article]

*Certified Developer Digital Delta Design released a new promo video that features junaio at Weddings [videos]

Hey, you! Yes- you. Don’t forget to update to the latest version of junaio! [article]

insideAR 2012- the best augmented reality conference around, conveniently scheduled to coincide with Oktoberfest. Check out pictures from last year… [photos]

…and don’t forget to register! [article]

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there are things that are happening 

Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers [article]

EyeRing, voice-activated augmented reality tool for the blind- wait what?  [video]

Disney researches add virtual touch to the real [video]

 

pick of the week eternity – “Sight” 

If you haven’t already seen this, you probably think Augmented Reality will always be fluffy marketing gimmicks. I’m truly sorry to have to forever shatter your rosy view of the universe.

Letter from CEO Thomas Alt: metaio Engineer

 

Dear metaio-eco-system,

with Augmented Reality increasing its visibility in fields like marketing, mobile and entertainment, applications of the technology in industrial processes help our customers to improve the quality and maintainability of their products on a day-to-day level. We are proud that we have, ever since the inception of metaio, viewed the deployment of the technology in the industrial domain as one of the strongest use-cases.

Our core industrial product metaio Engineer is the only professional Augmented Reality solution on the market to satisfy the needs of industrial users with applications in production planning, virtual prototyping and maintenance of technical products – all based on 10 years of research and development in the industrial domain.

Read all about it in our latest industry newsletter: http://www.metaio.com/newsletter/metaio-news/2012/metaio-engineer-0712/

Also – we are very happy to invite you to this year’s insideAR, and to announce the first details about what will be an exciting and illuminating event for the Augmented Reality industry. We would love to have you join us in beautiful Munich for the most professional business-minded event in Augmented Reality and mobile high-tech. More on this:  http://www.metaio.com/newsletter/metaio-news/2012/insidear-save-the-date/

- metaio CEO and Co-Founder Thomas Alt

metaio Engineer – Helping Redefine Industry Processes

With Augmented Reality increasing its visibility in fields like marketing, mobile and entertainment applications of the technology in industrial processes help our customer to improve the quality and maintainability of their products on a day-to-day level. We are proud that we have, ever since the inception of metaio, viewed the deployment of the technology in the industrial domain as one of the strongest use-cases.
Our core industrial product metaio Engineer is the only professional Augmented Reality solution on the market to satisfy the needs of industrial users with applications in production planning, virtual prototyping and maintenance of technical products – all based on 10 years of research and development in the industrial domain.
-the metaio team

 

Announcing the all new metaio Engineer 5.0

From Q4/2012 the all new metaio Engineer 5.0 will be available to our customers. We have received more than 150 feature requests from our customers and partners worldwide and have implemented more than 100 features in the new release. Developing the new version we have put special emphasis on the following features:

• Integrated high precision camera calibration
• New high accuracy off set calibration
• Improved handling of CAD files
• Support for measuring tasks between real and virtual objects

The flexible design of metaio Engineer allows for the deployment in production planning, logistic planning, verification tasks as well as assembly support.

Automotive Prototyping with Augmented Reality

Shorter product life cycles and the rising complexity in automotive design and prototyping makes virtual engineering a key success factor in the industry. Using Augmented Reality to compare virtual design data with actual prototypes can result in a lower time-to-market and can improve product quality.
Learn how our customers use metaio Engineer in their prototyping environment to support the following tasks:

• Superimposition of welding bolts
• Visual check of construction status
• Validation of flexible parts (tubing and wiring for example)
• Virtual correction and assembly analysis
• Assembly space analysis

The key benefits in this application domain include:

• Reduced training costs
• Reduced number of real prototypes
• Qualitative improvement of prototyping parts (e.g. vendor parts)
• Improved communication with designers, vendors and test engineers

Have look on the case study and learn more about automotive prototyping.

Retrofitting in the Shipbuilding Industry with Augmented Reality

In our latest case-study we are showcasing how MAN Diesel is using Augmented Reality to retrofit a 30 year old ship engine. In order to save time and cost as well as for a reliable project planning, the installation of the new engine is simulated in advance using metaio Engineer.
Based on photos of the current engine compartment Augmented Reality allows for the virtual positioning of the retrofitted engine and its mounting positions.
The key benefits in this application domain include:

• Improved estimate on project costs
• Virtual evaluation of design options
• Identification of savings
• Efficient communication between engineering, sales, management and customers
• Highly accelerated capturing of spatial limitations

We see a wide field of possible applications for the methodology on all measures of retro-fitting, re-powering and maintenance of ship engines.

metaio Engineer 5.0 – live at insideAR 2012

This year our famous annual exhibition insideAR – one of the biggest Augmented Reality events worldwide – will be the platform for presenting the brand new metaio Engineer 5.0. With a large number of new features this release takes another step to an all-in-one solution for highly- accurate AR analyses in almost every kind of engineering projects.
All our guests at insideAR will have the opportunity to see metaio Engineer solve day-to-day tasks in virtual engineering on real live use-cases.
Come to insideAR on October 1st and 2nd and take a look!