Making Things Happen » augmented reality http://www.francescofederico.net Francesco Federico's blog Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:13:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Nokia’s take on augmented reality http://www.francescofederico.net/2009/09/11/nokias-take-on-augmented-reality/ http://www.francescofederico.net/2009/09/11/nokias-take-on-augmented-reality/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:30:58 +0000 Francesco http://www.francescofederico.net/?p=347 This futuristic and visionary video, shows how Nokia forecasts the future to come. Even though it’s indeed a nice and, in some ways, inspirational video, I’m still partially unsatisfied with it as it doesn’t explain clearly the true value of augmented reality which, I believe, goes far beyond a translucent wake up alarm.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwvZWyLiBU

If you want to learn more about Nokia’s studies on augmented reality, you can have a look at this white paper.

]]> http://www.francescofederico.net/2009/09/11/nokias-take-on-augmented-reality/feed/ 0 A great augmented ID concept http://www.francescofederico.net/2009/08/24/a-great-augmented-id-concept/ http://www.francescofederico.net/2009/08/24/a-great-augmented-id-concept/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:30:19 +0000 Francesco http://www.francescofederico.net/?p=318 What if we could access a person’s information such as her vCard, Facebook username, LinkedIn profile, Slideshare presentation and much more by simply aiming at her our phone’s camera?

The Swedish company The Astonishing Tribe is developing exactly that, called “Augmented ID”, featuring advanced face recognition algorithms.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0pMeg1UN0

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