Two More Weeks of Weekest Links

I bet you thought week be gone ’til November, didn’t you? 

 

metaio | junaio recap

Metaio upgrades augmented reality Creator tool for Design, Publishing industries [press release] [video]

Last chance for the 10% Halloween sale on the Metaio SDK and Metaio Creator! [store]

2013 IKEA Catalog App the most downloaded branded app from the Apple App Store [report]

App lets you preview IKEA furniture in your house [article]

Augmented Reality Market Comes To Life [article]

Letter from Metaio CEO Thomas Alt [blog]

Working for Metaio: Amanda Le [blog]

Augmented Reality for Education from SCARLET [blog]

Junaio is the cherry on top of Tazasproject [blog]

RE’FLEKT makes augmented reality work for students [blog]

What’s going on in Augmented Reality in 2012? [article]

Mark Billinghurst from HITLab New Zealand showcases some Junaio examples [video]

Experience the new Ford Figo with Junaio [video]

 

there are things that are happening

Congratulations to the HITLab team for securing a new software research grant [article]

 

pick of the week: Marco Tempest distinguishes technology from magic

He says some interesting things about playing cards, but it’s really just distracting you from the fact that he’s in league with the devil.

Just kidding. We love this guy.

Metaio Scales Augmented Reality, Releases New Research & Technology to Community

Who SLAMs harder?

Technology leader introduces only commercially available platform-independent AR software with SLAM and Continuous Visual Search

MUNICH & SAN FRANCISCO, 18 October, 2012- After observing a year of remarkable growth in the amount of Augmented Reality (AR) users, developers and business applications, Metaio announced at its annual InsideAR technology conference to over 500 attendees that it will introduce scalable and sustainable AR production methods in order to empower AR on every smartphone, including a unified, platform-independent solution and software development kit, a new and improved desktop publishing tool, and integration of camera technologies like continuous visual search and SLAM, effectively enabling AR on anything, anywhere. Metaio also unveiled the results of extensive R&D: Live outdoor augmented reality on downtown Munich, real-time object recognition and tracking flying at 10,000 feet; Recognizing and augmenting every image of a 100-page magazine with a mobile device; and instant, do-it-yourself augmented reality for entire environments.

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Read the Full Press Release

Media Package: Videos – visit the insideAR Facebook page for images from the event

Available now in the new metaio SDK

 

SLAM from 1000 feet (~300m)

SLAM camera tracking is basically real-time object and environment recognition that allows for instant digital overlays in nearly any situation. When Metaio decided to integrate SLAM into its SDK, they wanted to benchmark it to make sure it would be the best available. So they did, from 1000 feet in the air. Notice as the Drone flies over the small town that the Camera automatically and gradually learns its environment, recognizing more and more of the town and terrain. The image on the right is a skeleton display of the feature points, showing how the camera literally learns and understands what it’s seeing. This technology is available today for no-charge download in the brand new Metaio SDK http://metaio.com/products/sdk

Munich, the Augmented City “Test”

Metaio has fostered the idea of an Augmented City for the past two years – this year we delivered the first accessible Outdoor 3-D Augmented Reality demo. The new SLAM feature and Metaio’s award-winning Augmented Reality algorithms powered this AR overlay directly on Munich’s city hall. Day or night, now anyone can witness the famous “Glockenspiel” demonstration that normally only occurs at 11am.
Also, using complex geo-locational data for downtown Munich, Metaio added brand new line-of-sight Points of Interest (POIs). No more random floating billboards on the horizon that have no connection to reality – the new POIs combine GPS and real-world data to appear exactly where they’re supposed to be. This isn’t a research demo either- it’s an experience available to anyone with an Android or iOS mobile device using the free augmented reality browser app, junaio. http://dev.metaio.com/junaio

Outdoor Augmented Reality & 3-D Tracking

When Metaio augments something, it stays augmented. GPS is good enough to get a user somewhere, but not good enough to “anchor” 3-D content to a physical location. Metaio is working on a “snapping” algorithm that uses GPS to get close and then “snaps” the 3-D reference to the physical location to allow for tightly-aligned, life-like augmented reality. Instead of streaming the GPS data, the models are locked in, and they’re not going anywhere once they are.

100 Unique pages Augmented on the client, by Metaio

In 2009, it was difficult to augment a single page of a magazine in a browser on a PC with huge processing power. Today the Metaio SDK enables augmenting over 100 unique images, on a consumer mobile device, with no cloud necessary. And since it doesn’t rely on an internet connection, the augmented reality is instantaneous, robust and smoother than ever. Learn more about the new Metaio SDK athttp://metaio.com/products/sdk

 

Two More Weeks of Weekest Links

Week week week all the way home. 

metaio | junaio recap

junaio featured on Appolicious [review]

junaio reviewed on No Brainer [review]

Zee Fear Files Goes Augmented [post]

Blast from the past: Roman Hasenbeck of Metaio talks about social media & augmented reality [video]

Read about all the updates and new projects in the latest newsletter from junaio [newsletter]

Fernando Gallego of Metaio presents junaio at Campus Party Europe [video] [slides]

Keep up with junaio developer Dave Miller’s ongoing augmented reality project [blog]

SV Werder Bremen presents new team with junaio [post]

Die Kelten: a vivid augmented reality story [post]

Letter from CEO Thomas Alt: insideAR, IKEA and more [post]

Augmented Reality: Terminator meets Robocop [article]

IKEA will be joining us at insideAR 2012 – will you? [event site][photos]

there are things that are happening

Someone leaked a video of what could possibly be the iPhone 5- is it real? Is it a huge hoax? You be the judge [video]

4 Ideas That Will Change Augmented Reality, by Helen Papagiannis of @ARstories [post]

Picks of the week

Because you were all so patient while us Americans enjoyed our Labor Day, you get not one, but two picks of the week courtesy of the myself. And the internet. Enjoy!

Roller Coaster Tycoon in Real Life

Game We Play

(can’t think of better examples of how to seamlessly weave AR into real life through gaming)

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]

you should vote for us [South by Southwest] 

Please Please Please vote for our South by Southwest panels (just take a moment to create an account)

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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.