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Cool AR Concept for Xbox Kinect | Augmented Planet - 0 views

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shared by Marc-Alexandre Gagnon on 25 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Immersive gameplay where you become the character in a game is an interesting concept and one that I think the Xbox Kinect will do pretty well at.  Below is an interesting video from a developer experimenting with augmented reality and the Kinect. There are some nice touches in there such as body mapping to paint the characters costume, object detection for the particle beams. Also watch out for the example of diminishing reality thrown in at the end.
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Augmented Reality Powered By String [16May11] - 0 views

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shared by D'coda Dcoda on 19 May 11 - No Cached
  • If you are already familiar with AR you’ll notice that String lives somewhere in middle of fiduciary markers and natural feature tracking. Tracking images combines the high contrast black border of a marker and a complex natural image in the centre. This mix actually works well. With a marker users can identify it as having special significance when presented to a camera (much the same way users identify QR Codes as having significance). With NTF images the challenge is telling the user that the image as has significance without providing a large amount of instructions. Combining the two therefore goes someway to solve the identification problem. The String SDK which is currently available for iOS with an Android version in the works is powerful enough to build some pretty amazing solutions. I normally say that any AR demo is only as good as its 3D objects, that’s still true as eye candy sells, but String does an amazing job of recognising the markers even in poor lighting.
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TELE-PRESENCE International Workshop [13Nov09] - 0 views

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shared by D'coda Dcoda on 26 May 11 - No Cached
  • The Meaning of Being There is Related to a Specific Activation in the Brain Located in the Parahypocampus
  • Social Presence in Virtual World Surveys
  • Moderating Effects of Social Presence on Behavioral Conformation in Virtual Reality Environments: A Comparison between Social Presence and Identification
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  • The Role of Realism and Anthropomorphism in the Selection of Avatars
  • Attention, Spatial Presence and Engagement: Implications for Virtual Environment Learning Platforms
  • Social And Spatial Presence: An Application to Optimize Human-Computer Interaction
  • Tangible Presence in Blended Reality Space
  • Advertising Effects through Virtual Violence
  • Presence and the Meaning of Life: Exploring (Tele)Presence Simulation Scenarios and their Implications
  • “I’m Always Touched by Your Presence, Dear”: Combining Mediated Social Touch with Morphologically Correct Visual Feedback
  • Presence and the Victims of Cybercrime in Virtual Worlds
  • Measuring Telepresence: The Temple Presence Inventory
  • Second Life as a Learning & Teaching Environment
  • The Effect of Avatar Perception on Attributions of Source and Text Credibility
  • Self-presence Standardized: Introducing the Self-Presence Questionnaire (SPQ)
  • Image vs. Sound: A Comparison of Formal Feature Effects on Presence, Video Game Enjoyment, and Player Performance
  • The Effects of Competition on Intrinsic Motivation in Exergames and the Conditional Indirect Effects of Presence
  • Who´s there? Can a Virtual Agent Really Elicit Social Presence?
  • Presence, Participation, and Political Text-on-Television: Pilot Testing a Converged Technology
  • D'coda Dcoda on 26 May 11
     
    A list of freely available pdf's of papers presented at this conference.
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Qualcomm Talks Future of Mobile, AR, 3D, Sensors & More at Uplinq 2011 [01Jun11] - 0 views

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shared by Dan R.D. on 02 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • People Don't Care about PCs...the Buzz is All About Mobile To paint an image of the very large scale of the mobile ecosystem, Jacobs talked numbers: There are 1.3 billion 3G connections worldwide, and there will be 2 billion more connections by 2015. Mobile data use will increase 10 to 12 times over the next four years. There are over 120 HSPA+ mobile networks and 180 commercial EVDO networks offering mobile broadband. There are 200 LTE networks planned, 20 of which have launched now.
  • Mobile Unleashing the "Greatest Wave of Creativity in History" And what is that? Only that mobile is going to unleash the "greatest wave of creativity in history." Dr. Jacobs said he knew that sounded like a "heady" proposition, especially because many mobile developers are just trying to build an app people like, he says. "But your app could reach hundreds of millions of users!" Now is the time to "think and act globally," Jacobs said. "Mobile is now the dominant computing platform, and it's never going back."
  • Augmented Reality Demoed as Marketing Tool AR, or augmented reality, was also at the forefront of today's keynote, with a sobering presentation from John Batter, Co-President of Production, Dreamworks Animation SKG. He produced data showing the decline of DVD sales over the years.
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  • He showed an example of this with the studio's new hit, Kung Fu Panda 2, which will be marketed using in-store signage at major retailers like Walmart and Target. The signs feature QR codes that, when scanned, make an AR-enabled app available to end users
  • Mobile is "Digital 6th Sense" Dr. Jacobs concluded the keynote by looking forward into the future of mobile, calling mobile our "digital 6th sense" which will become the primary way we interact with the world around us. Your phone will listen and see everything using the sensors connected to your body, sensors out in the environment, the people around you and more - and it will adjust itself accordingly. Imagine a phone that adjusts to your mood, or your vital signs, he said. "You are the creators of this experience," Jacobs said, speaking to the developers in the audience. Qualcomm just wants to "free you up to do what you do best: innovating."
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Sony Sets Its Sights on Augmented Reality [31May11] - 0 views

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shared by Dan R.D. on 01 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • The future of mobile gaming will merge the virtual and real worlds.
  • Unlike many augmented reality systems, Smart AR does not use satellite tracking or special markers to figure out where to overlay a virtual object. Instead, it uses object recognition. This means it works where GPS signals are poor or nonexistent, for example, indoors. The markerless system is more difficult to pull off, but it allows many more everyday objects to be used.
  • Sony has dabbled with the technology before, using two-dimensional barcodes known as CyberCodes as markers for tracking objects.
  • Dan R.D. on 01 Jun 11
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The Future of Sleep: Augmented Reality to Revolutionise our Slumber - 0 views

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shared by Dan R.D. on 11 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • By 2030 we will be able to manage the contents of our dreams as in the movie ‘Inception’.
  • Remote virtual love making will be possible by 2030, allowing individuals to connect with their partner whilst away from home.
  • By 2030 it will be possible to diagnose some medical conditions by monitoring sleep patterns. Sleepwear featuring electro-responsive fabrics will enable measurement of skin conductivity (indicating stress or relaxation states), pulse, blood pressure and quality of heart signals.
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  • Active contact lenses will allow sleepers in the future to watch TV, watch movies or check emails as they fall asleep. The lenses will be worn under the eyelids and deliver high quality 3D images directly onto the retina.
  • Futurologist Ian Pearson said: “Hotels in 2030 will offer customers a bespoke room and experience on every visit. Lonely business travellers will be able to turn their hotel room into their bedroom at home and with augmented and virtual reality, they can even share the experience with their partner anywhere in the world. Leisure travellers will be able to bring their favourite sights, sounds and smells into their hotel room for the ultimate stay.” Shakila Ahmed, spokesperson for Travelodge, said: “Technology affects our lives in so many ways it is only a question of time before it impacts on the experience of sleep. As part of our commitment to ensuring our guests get a good night’s sleep, we are always looking to the future and at new and different ways of improving our guests’ stay, whether it is by offering dream menus or home-from-home 3D uploads.”
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Wildcat: Of Onions and Infocologies Thriving in the age of hyperconnectivity [31Aug09] - 0 views

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shared by Jan Wyllie on 17 May 11 - Cached
  • a sensation carried by many and is very difficult to articulate, for even though the scope and amount of information available to us is disturbing many cherished beliefs and long held assumptions, at base this sensation is pleasurable, hence we want more of it.
  • we are entering, and actually are already in, a deterritorialized age of transformation, an age unlike any other in that the speed and overload of information is transforming us, and yes destabilizing us, disrupting us in such a fashion as to allow a new kind of mind to emerge, the hyperconnected mind.
  • we have evolved to be a fluid intelligence, an intelligence for which disruption is not a bug but a feature.
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  • Hyperconnectivity leads to fluid intelligence.
  • Fluid intelligence is the ability to find meaning in confusion and solve new problems. It is the ability to draw inferences and understand the relationships of various concepts, independent of acquired knowledge”
  • in our hyperconnected slipstream the very transient nature of meaning is being amplified.
  • I believe that fluid intelligence is the hallmark of our present era, an intelligence that is fundamentally  autopoietic and multidimensional;
  • think that same intelligence is in the process of adaptation, adapting itself to accommodate information overload not as a negative so called ‘distraction’ but as an attention enhancer, an explorative measure of our intellects. T
  • I have become more intelligent, clearer, more focused, faster and more appreciative of others. In fact I am more than pleased with my multitasking, multithreaded polylogue on practically every level of my existence.
  • in direct insights that are predominantly invisible but nevertheless inform our actions and influence our understandings. Moreover, I see the modern formless hypermind evolving in front of our eyes as the precursor of a posthuman mind that is not only better at ‘everything’ but eventually will adapt old and outdated philosophical and cognitive concepts into fresh modes of being.
  • more than that I carry the (very subjective) feeling that I have developed a new filtering system concerning relevancy and irrelevancy, I am now able to discard or admit at a glance, if something is worthy of note to me or not, if it pertains to my (very extensive) list of interests or not.
  • A connected object, one that is a node in a network that interacts in some way with other nodes, can give birth to a hundred unique relationships that it never could do while unconnected
  • Narratives is what we are made of, our states of mind are narratives, stories within stories,
  • The paradigmatic shift is disruptive because it heralds a new story, the story of superabundance, and the superabundance starts with the wealth of information at our immediate accessibility.
  • he narrative of our hyperconnected state of affairs is one of enmeshed realities
  • the dynamics of intersubjectivity allows us to flow uninterrupted into a combined interactive intelligence, a hyper-intelligence that combines autonomous critical thinking within a larger framework of co-adaptive consensual adhocracies.
  • this very variability of multiple realities enmeshed as a coherent whole that re-describes the theme of being a hyperconnected mind.
  • We are at present in a transitional period of rapid advancement, an era of supreme importance in the history of humanity, a phase in our concatenated evolution in which new forms of literacy are being invented, new methods of inter-subjective enhancement are at play and we evolve because of it.
    • Jan Wyllie
      Jan Wyllie on 17 May 11
       
      As always significant, inspiring and disturbing. 
  • Jan Wyllie on 17 May 11
     
    Is this vision coming to pass? Or is it delayed again? Or being overtaken by events on the ground, so to speak?
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